Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Typical home $635,619 (+3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,914 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,121 +4%
- $612,498$635,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,150 +15%
- $550,469$635,619 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.
- Wolfeboro$3,336
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Wolfeboro, NH rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wolfeboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire
Wolfeboro, in Carroll County, had 3,300 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carroll County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wolfeboro is a small lakeside community in Carroll County, New Hampshire, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values run high, and household incomes are measured against a county figure that is well above many parts of the state. Winters here are cold and snowy, with a long stretch of freezing weather, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and the building trades also providing a good share of jobs. The largest workplaces in town include the Governor Wentworth Regional School District, Huggins Hospital and AGS Supermarkets. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Getting to work usually takes a fairly long drive.
Things to do. Lake Wentworth lies in or beside town, and Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the best known lakes in the state, is a short drive away. Wentworth State Park, a protected area on the water, is also a short drive away. For something different, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,245households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 20,096 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 62 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakeport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wolfeboro
- Governor Wentworth Regional School DistrictSchool district490FTE
- Huggins HospitalCritical access hospital427FTE
- AGS Supermarkets541163
- Eastern Propane GasPropane/oil retailer29
- Hancock Lumber Company - WolfeboroHome centers, building materials22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 652 people in all. 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wolfeboro’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 Carroll County.
Wolfeboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wolfeboro$635,619
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wolfeboro 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.
- Wolfeboro24.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wolfeboro66
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wolfeboro17
Zip codes with a Wolfeboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wolfeboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.