Unity, New Hampshire.
Typical home $385,807 (+13.0% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,338 (+195%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,372 +13%
- $341,435$385,807 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,988 +53%
- $252,819$385,807 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.
- Unity$2,025
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Unity, NH rose 13.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Unity, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Unity is a town of 1,518 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $87,500 a year and half less, against $80,858 across Sullivan County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Unity is a small New Hampshire town in Sullivan County, home to a population older than in most of the country. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run above the county's, with fewer residents living in poverty than many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and shops close behind. Across Sullivan County, some of the largest workplaces are Whelen Engineering, Sturm, Ruger & Co and the Claremont School District. Commutes are long, and a modest number of people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. The Black River and the Sugar River are both a short drive away, as are Pillsbury State Park, a protected area, and Arrowhead Recreation Area, a ski area. The Fort at Number 4, a museum, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Lake Sunapee and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park are a longer drive away.
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- 494households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents 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 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 66 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport weather station, 7 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; Unity 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
- 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.
Unity home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Unity$385,807
- 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.
- Unity9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Unity4
Zip codes with a Unity address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Unity — 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.