Whitefield, New Hampshire.
Typical home $326,758 (+6.2% in a year). Berlin, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,067 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,142 +6%
- $307,615$326,758 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,655 +34%
- $244,102$326,758 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Whitefield$1,715
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Whitefield, NH rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitefield, Coos County, New Hampshire
Whitefield, in Coos County, had 1,460 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Coos County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Whitefield is a small community in the North Country of New Hampshire, in Coos County. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasant, warmest in July. Household incomes are below the county's, and most adults do not have a four-year degree.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Coos County, the largest workplaces include Omni Mount Washington Resort, Androscoggin Valley Hospital and White Mountains Regional School District. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Santa's Village is an amusement park, and Forest Lake State Park is a protected area with room to get outdoors. The Israel River, also a short drive off, is one of the nearby rivers. A longer drive brings you to White Mountain National Forest and Franconia Notch State Park, both protected areas in the mountains.
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- 678households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coos County had 11,730 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 53°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whitefield Mount Washington Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coos County
- Omni Mount Washington ResortHotels, resort, without casinos880
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Androscoggin Valley HospitalCritical access hospital240FTE
- North Country HealthcareHospitals, general medical and surgical235
- White Mountains Regional School DistrictSchool district234FTE
- Berlin School DistrictSchool district221FTE
- Weeks Medical CenterCritical access hospital174FTE
- Morrison Hospital AssociationRest homes without nursing care140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,450 people in all across the county; Whitefield has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whitefield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Coos County and the Berlin, NH metro.
Whitefield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitefield$326,758
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Whitefield10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Whitefield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitefield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.