Mason, New Hampshire.
Typical home $547,761 (+1.9% in a year). Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,712 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,336 +2%
- $537,425$547,761 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $144,408 +36%
- $403,353$547,761 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.
- Mason$2,875
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mason, NH rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Mason is a town of 1,448 people in Hillsborough County. Half its households earn more than $111,090 a year and half less, against $103,545 across Hillsborough County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Hillsborough County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mason is a small town where almost everyone owns the home they live in, and households earn more than the county's typical household. Few residents live below the poverty line, and the population is somewhat older than in many places, with a large share of adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm in July, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, manufacturing, shops, and schools, hospitals and social care. Commutes are long, and many people also work from home. Across Hillsborough County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern New Hampshire University, Catholic Medical Center and BAE Systems, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year while unemployment has eased slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Andres Institute of Art is a museum, and Pearl Hill State Park is a protected area for time outdoors. The South Branch Souhegan River also runs a short drive away. For a longer outing, Canobie Lake Park is an amusement park, and the Currier Museum of Art is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 528households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hillsborough County had 199,383 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 75 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville Nne weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hillsborough County
- Southern New Hampshire UniversityUniversity or college14,416
- Catholic Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,136FTE
- BAE SystemsMicrowave components manufacturing2,125
- Elliot HospitalGeneral hospital2,110FTE
- Manchester School DistrictSchool district1,826FTE
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing1,246
- Southern NH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,083FTE
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing1,042
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 420 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 54,012 people in all across the county; Mason has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hillsborough County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Hillsborough County and the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
Mason home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mason$547,761
- 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.
- Mason7
Zip codes with a Mason address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mason — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.