Rye, New Hampshire.
Typical home $1,281,336 (+5.2% in a year), asking rent $3,220 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,295 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $62,795 +5%
- $1,218,540$1,281,336 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $426,955 +50%
- $854,381$1,281,336 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.
- Rye$6,725
- 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 Rye, NH rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Rye is a town of 5,543 people in Rockingham County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in finance and property, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rye is a small coastal town on the New Hampshire seacoast, with a population older than in most American towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes here are priced well above what is typical across the country, with rents to match. Incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs hovering just above freezing, while summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in banks, insurance and property, in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Quite a few work from home, and the commute for those who travel to a job is longer than a short hop across town. Across Rockingham County, the largest workplaces include Lonza Portsmouth, Exeter Hospital and Sig Sauer at Pease. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The shoreline is the main draw. Odiorne Point State Park, a protected area in or beside town, and Wallis Sands State Park, a beach in or beside town, are both close at hand. Fort McClary, an old fort a short drive away, adds some history to a day out, and Strawbery Banke, a museum a short drive away, is a good stop for anyone curious about the area's past.
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- 2,293households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 31%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 157,506 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 65 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenland weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockingham County
- Lonza PortsmouthIntravenous solution preparations manufacturing1,574
- Exeter HospitalGeneral hospital1,256FTE
- Sig Sauer Inc. - PeaseFirearms, small, manufacturing1,100
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,053
- Lindt & Sprungli USAChocolate and confectionery manufacturing971
- SubCom Cable SystemsFiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand871
- Portsmouth Regional HospitalGeneral hospital832FTE
- Londonderry School DistrictSchool district825FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 353 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,302 people in all across the county; Rye has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rockingham 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 Rockingham County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Rye home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rye$1,281,336
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Rye 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.
- Rye20.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rye21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rye9
Zip codes with a Rye address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rye — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.