Wilton, New Hampshire.
Typical home $501,526 (+1.8% in a year). Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,557 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,871 +2%
- $492,654$501,526 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,313 +33%
- $376,213$501,526 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.
- Wilton$2,632
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Wilton, NH rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Wilton, in Hillsborough County, had 1,324 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hillsborough County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hillsborough 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilton is a small community in Hillsborough County, with a population well under the size of a city and a quiet, close-knit feel. Few households here live below the poverty line, and the typical home is worth more than a great many homes elsewhere in the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many people. A fair number work from home. Across Hillsborough County, some of the largest workplaces are Southern New Hampshire University, Catholic Medical Center and Elliot Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town, Andy's Summer Playhouse and the Wilton Town Hall Theatre are both theatres, and Purgatory Brook is a river. A short drive away, the Wapack National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. For a longer drive, the Currier Museum of Art is an art museum.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Hillsborough County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hillsborough County had 199,383 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 57 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milford weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hillsborough County
- Southern New Hampshire UniversityUniversity or college14,416
- Catholic Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,136FTE
- BAE SystemsMicrowave components manufacturing2,125
- Elliot HospitalGeneral hospital2,110FTE
- Manchester School DistrictSchool district1,826FTE
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing1,246
- Southern NH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,083FTE
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing1,042
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 420 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 54,012 people in all across the county; Wilton has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Wilton’s census tracts, 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 Hillsborough County and the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
Wilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilton$501,526
- 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.
- Wilton11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wilton7
Zip codes with a Wilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.