Middleton, New Hampshire.
Typical home $431,008 (+1.2% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,445 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,248 +1%
- $425,760$431,008 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,646 +47%
- $292,362$431,008 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.
- Middleton$2,262
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Middleton, NH rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Middleton, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Middleton is a town of 1,823 people in Strafford County. Half its households earn more than $101,696 a year and half less, against $88,570 across Strafford County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Strafford County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middleton is a small New Hampshire town in Strafford County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a rural place. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing and nights well below it, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Strafford County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of New Hampshire, Wentworth Douglass Hospital and Frisbie Memorial Hospital. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Sunrise Lake lies in or beside town, and Great East Lake and Lake Wentworth are each a short drive away for time on the water. The New Hampshire Farm Museum is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Lake Winnipesaukee and New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a race track, are a longer drive away.
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- 593households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Strafford County had 46,615 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sanford Nnw weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Strafford County
- University of New HampshireUniversity or college3,798
- Wentworth Douglass HospitalGeneral hospital1,929FTE
- Frisbie Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital771FTE
- Sig Sauer (Rochester)Firearms, small, manufacturing620
- Rochester School DistrictSchool district584FTE
- Dover School DistrictSchool district527FTE
- Three Phase Line ConstructionSubstation and switching station, power transmission line, construction420
- Oyster River Coop School DistrictSchool district417FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,547 people in all across the county; Middleton 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 stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Strafford County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Strafford County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Middleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middleton$431,008
- 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.
- Middleton11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Middleton4
Zip codes with a Middleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.