Sunapee, New Hampshire.
Typical home $683,758 (+2.0% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,210 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,511 +2%
- $670,247$683,758 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $152,030 +29%
- $531,728$683,758 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.
- Sunapee$3,589
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Sunapee, NH rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunapee, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Sunapee is a town of 3,342 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $101,393 a year and half less, against $80,858 across Sullivan County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunapee is a lakeside town in the hills of Sullivan County, New Hampshire, with an older population than most of the country. Households here earn more than across the county, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is common among adults, and typical home values run high. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Unemployment across Sullivan County is low and has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed. Among the county's largest workplaces are Whelen Engineering Company, Sturm, Ruger & Co and Valley Regional Hospital. The typical commute is fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake Sunapee sits in or beside town, and Pleasant Lake is a short drive away for more time on the water. Mount Sunapee State Park and Mount Sunapee Resort, a ski area, are also a short drive away, which suits the snowy winters. For an evening out, the Newport Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away.
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- 1,399households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 10%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 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 85 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Sunapee weather station, 4 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; Sunapee has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sullivan County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Sunapee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunapee$683,758
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Sunapee 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.
- Sunapee19.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sunapee23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sunapee7
Zip codes with a Sunapee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunapee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.