Orford, New Hampshire.
Typical home $428,997 (+2.2% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,432 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,089 +2%
- $419,908$428,997 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,809 +37%
- $314,188$428,997 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.
- Orford$2,252
- 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 Orford, NH rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orford, Grafton County, New Hampshire
Orford is a town of 1,237 people in Grafton County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Grafton County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grafton County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orford is a small New Hampshire town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older than in much of the country. Winters are long and snowy, with cold January days, while July is warm; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and incomes in the county run well above what many places see.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many people. Across Grafton County, the largest workplaces include Dartmouth College, Littleton Regional Healthcare and Hypertherm. The typical commute is moderate, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Waits River and Lake Tarleton, a river and a reservoir, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Franconia Notch State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach. The Hood Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, suits a quieter day indoors.
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- 584households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Grafton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grafton County had 54,628 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 55°. About 76 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wentworth weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grafton County
- Dartmouth CollegeUniversity or college4,379
- Plymouth State UniversityUniversity or college645
- Littleton Regional HealthcareCritical access hospital434FTE
- New England Wire TechnologiesCopper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper419
- HyperthermPrecision turned product manufacturing408
- Alice Peck DAY Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital384FTE
- Novo Nordisk US Bio ProductionHematology products manufacturing381
- Lebanon School DistrictSchool district340FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 104 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,991 people in all across the county; Orford has none 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Grafton 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 Grafton County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Orford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orford$428,997
- 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.
- Orford6
Zip codes with a Orford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.