Stark, New Hampshire.
Typical home $284,678 (+11.3% in a year). Berlin, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,004 (+205%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,856 +11%
- $255,822$284,678 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,310 +49%
- $191,368$284,678 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.
- Stark$1,494
- 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 Stark, NH rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stark, Coos County, New Hampshire
Stark is a town of 478 people in Coos County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Coos County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coos County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stark is a very small town in Coos County, and most of the people who live there are older than in much of the country. Nearly everyone owns their home, far more than across the county or the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and a great deal of snow falls each year, while summers stay mild and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. A fair number of people work from home. Across Coos County, the largest workplaces include the Omni Mount Washington Resort, Androscoggin Valley Hospital and the White Mountains Regional School District. Jobs across the county were slightly fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Christine Lake lies in or beside town, and the Upper Ammonoosuc River, Cedar Pond and the historic Fort Wentworth are each a short drive away. Rivers and ponds like these suit anyone who likes to fish, paddle or simply sit by the water. For a longer outing, Maidstone State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 186households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Coos County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coos County had 11,730 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 53°. About 96 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the York Pond weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coos County
- Omni Mount Washington ResortHotels, resort, without casinos880
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Androscoggin Valley HospitalCritical access hospital240FTE
- North Country HealthcareHospitals, general medical and surgical235
- White Mountains Regional School DistrictSchool district234FTE
- Berlin School DistrictSchool district221FTE
- Weeks Medical CenterCritical access hospital174FTE
- Morrison Hospital AssociationRest homes without nursing care140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,450 people in all across the county; Stark 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Coos County, 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 Coos County and the Berlin, NH metro.
Stark home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stark$284,678
- 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.
- Stark6
Zip codes with a Stark address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stark — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.