Plainfield, New Hampshire.
Typical home $529,344 (+1.9% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,695 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,903 +2%
- $519,442$529,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $142,129 +37%
- $387,215$529,344 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.
- Plainfield$2,778
- 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 Plainfield, NH rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Plainfield, in Sullivan County, had 178 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainfield is a very small community on the Connecticut River side of Sullivan County, New Hampshire, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for the county, and household incomes in the county as a whole run at a moderate level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services also employing many people. Across Sullivan County, some of the largest workplaces are Whelen Engineering Company, Sturm, Ruger & Co and the Claremont School District. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and only a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Cornish Colony Museum and the American Precision Museum, both museums, as well as Quechee State Park, a protected area. For a longer outing, the Hood Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 13,893 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Hartland Lake weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. - New HampshireVehicular lighting fixtures manufacturing1,000
- Sturm, Ruger & CoGuns manufacturing719
- Claremont School DistrictSchool district328FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Demoulas Super Markets275
- Valley Regional HospitalCritical access hospital265FTE
- Fall Mountain Regional School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- Newport School DistrictSchool district193FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,282 people in all across the county; Plainfield has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainfield’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 Sullivan County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$529,344
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Plainfield
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03781 | Plainfield | 1,918 | — | $524,211 |
| 03770 | Meriden | 604 | — | $571,885 |