Milton, New Hampshire.
Typical home $457,261 (+8.6% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,531 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,136 +9%
- $421,125$457,261 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,976 +47%
- $310,285$457,261 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.
- Milton$2,400
- 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 Milton, NH rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Milton, in Strafford County, had 593 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Strafford County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a very small community in Strafford County, New Hampshire, with a population well below what most towns in the state have. Homes here are valued above what the county's household incomes alone might suggest, so it is a place where many owners have held on to their property for a long time. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay below freezing through most days, and summers turn pleasantly warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Strafford County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of New Hampshire, Wentworth Douglass Hospital and Frisbie Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county has been a little lower than a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The New Hampshire Farm Museum is a short drive away, and the Branch River, also a short drive away, is a place to spend time by the water. For a longer outing, Lake Winnipesaukee is a larger lake a longer drive away, and it is among the best known in the state.
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What people in Strafford County 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 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rochester Skyhaven Airport weather station, 9 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; Milton 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milton’s census tracts, 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.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$457,261
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Milton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Milton34.58%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milton18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Milton9
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Milton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03851 | Milton | 4,333 | — | $461,516 |
| 03852 | Milton Mills | 205 | — | $414,488 |