Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Typical home $472,109 (+3.5% in a year). Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,530 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,041 +4%
- $456,068$472,109 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $134,290 +40%
- $337,819$472,109 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.
- Peterborough$2,478
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Peterborough, NH rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Peterborough, in Hillsborough County, had 3,090 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $85,833 a year and half less, against $103,545 across Hillsborough County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Hillsborough 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peterborough is a small community in southern New Hampshire's Hillsborough County, with household incomes somewhat below the county's and few residents living below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many would expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, while summers are warm, July being the warmest. Rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing a good number. Monadnock Community Hospital, RiverMead and Shaws Supermarkets are among the largest workplaces in town. A fair number of people work from home, and unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, even though the county has lost a small share of its jobs.
Things to do. The Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center is a museum in or beside town. A short drive away, Miller State Park and Monadnock State Park are protected areas for walking and time outdoors, and Powder Mill Pond is a lake close by.
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- 1,394households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 16%work from home
What people in Hillsborough County 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 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jaffrey Silver Rch Airpark weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Peterborough
- Monadnock Community HospitalCritical access hospital454FTE
- RiverMeadContinuing care retirement communities300
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores116
- Scott Farrar53
- Belletetes PeterboroughHome centers, building materials28
- Ocean State Job Lot NH1401All other general merchandise retailers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,143 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Peterborough’s census tracts, 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.
Peterborough home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peterborough$472,109
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Peterborough 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.
- Peterborough33.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Peterborough30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Peterborough9
Zip codes with a Peterborough address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peterborough — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.