Walpole, New Hampshire.
Typical home $440,458 (-0.6% in a year). Keene, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,439 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,733 -1%
- $443,191$440,458 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $133,353 +43%
- $307,105$440,458 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.
- Walpole$2,312
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Walpole, NH fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Walpole, in Cheshire County, had 573 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cheshire County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cheshire County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walpole is a very small community in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, where homes are valued well above what is typical elsewhere and the county's household incomes sit comfortably in the middle of the pack. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days, and precipitation is fairly generous through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good share. Some people work from home, and across Cheshire County the biggest workplaces include EMD Millipore, Cheshire Medical Center and Keene State College. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, though the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Cold River runs in or beside town, and the Saxtons River and the Williams River are each a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Steamtown, U.S.A., a railroad museum. For a longer outing, Chesterfield Gorge Natural Area is a protected area to explore, and Fort at Number 4 is a museum of the region's colonial past.
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- 9%work from home
What people in Cheshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cheshire County had 30,753 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walpole 2S Nepp weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cheshire County
- EMD MilliporeLaboratory analytical instruments manufacturing989
- Cheshire Medical CenterGeneral hospital737FTE
- Keene State CollegeUniversity or college619
- Franklin Pierce UniversityUniversity or college608
- Keene School DistrictSchool district606FTE
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Keene - Corporate Dr470
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Keene - Optical Ave412
- Dartmouth Hitchcock KeenePhysicians' offices411
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,030 people in all across the county; Walpole has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walpole’s census tracts, 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 Cheshire County and the Keene, NH metro.
Walpole home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walpole$440,458
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Walpole12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Walpole address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walpole — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Walpole
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03608 | Walpole | 3,167 | — | $477,452 |
| 03609 | North Walpole | 523 | — | $284,223 |