New Hampshire
State, USPS NH · 43.69, -71.58
7 findings fired for New Hampshire this run, against a typical home value of $516,306 in August 2026 and covered employment of 674,990 in 2026 Q1.
- 82nd pct · 10th of 51 US states · median $350,752
Zillow Home Value Index, state file: the middle third of the market, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 66th pct · 18th of 51 US states · median 2.1%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the state row.
- 19th pct · 42nd of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
BLS QCEW covered employment, third month of the quarter, all ownerships.
- 78th pct · 12th of 52 US states · median $1,416
Total quarterly wages divided by average employment and by thirteen weeks; one covered job, not a household.
- 23rd pct · 40th of 52 US states · median 161,279
BLS QCEW reporting units, all ownerships.
- 7th pct · 48th of 52 US states · median -0.2%
BLS's own published over-the-year change. The newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so this is their figure, not a subtraction of ours.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $516,306 (Aug 2026), +2.9% over one year, +35.6% over five
- 82nd pct · 10th of 51 US states · median $350,752
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | $516,306 · +2.9% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rent #
Rather than print an empty row that suggests a number could arrive, the rows are omitted and the reason is stated. The rent figures for this state's counties are on their own pages.
Jobs & wages #
674,990 jobs at 66,121 employers (2026 Q1); -1.2% jobs and +3.0% average weekly wage over the year
- 19th pct · 42nd of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 674,990 jobs · $1,656/wk · -1.2% YoY |
| Sector | Jobs | Average weekly wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 100,049 | $1,444 | 0.99 |
| Retail trade | 86,164 | $851 | 1.31 |
| Manufacturing | 67,207 | $2,023 | 1.24 |
| Accommodation and food services | 56,630 | $592 | 0.93 |
| Professional and technical services | 48,748 | $3,152 | 1.05 |
| Administrative and waste services | 37,162 | $1,778 | 0.97 |
| Construction | 30,932 | $1,577 | 0.87 |
| Wholesale trade | 27,872 | $2,904 | 1.08 |
| Finance and insurance | 25,644 | $3,438 | 0.93 |
| Educational services | 21,939 | $1,499 | 1.51 |
| Other services | 21,647 | $1,015 | 1.07 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 15,394 | $1,666 | 0.54 |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 15,211 | $662 | 1.37 |
| Management of companies | 10,672 | $3,402 | 0.94 |
| Information | 10,362 | $3,032 | 0.83 |
| Real estate and rental | 6,934 | $1,656 | 0.67 |
| Unclassified | 3,102 | $2,123 | 2.16 |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 1,935 | $1,055 | 0.40 |
| Utilities | 1,926 | $3,087 | 0.72 |
| Mining, oil and gas | 457 | $1,337 | 0.19 |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Affordability #
A 30-year mortgage on the typical home at 7.28% costs about $2,826 a month in principal and interest.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $516,306 × 80% = $413,045, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $2,826/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,656 × 52 / 12 = $7,176) = 39% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $516,306 / ($1,656 × 52) = 6.0
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Trade gateways #
2 ports within 200 km, 6 land crossings within 250 km
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Boston | 161,162 TEU 2021 · #25 US | 155 km |
| Portland | medium harbour, channel 9.4 m | 107 km |
| Champlain Rouses Point, New York | 22,508 trucks in Aug 2026 · +6.2% YoY | 209 km |
| Highgate Springs, Vermont | 8,350 trucks in Aug 2026 · +17.7% YoY | 190 km |
| Derby Line, Vermont | 6,461 trucks in Aug 2026 · +8.8% YoY | 152 km |
| Beecher Falls, Vermont | 543 trucks in Aug 2026 · -12.7% YoY | 147 km |
These are the gateways near the state’s centroid, within the radii named above, not every port and crossing inside the state boundary. lib/economy searches a disc around a point; there is no clip-to-boundary path.
NGA World Port Index harbours (medium and large, or any with BTS statistics) and BTS Border Crossing Entry Data ports; BTS Port Performance volumes for the latest reporting year.
National pulse #
1 national series, latest 2026-10-01
FRED series (Freddie Mac, Census, BEA, EIA, BLS, S&P) and BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators; each item carries its own date and source.
Largest counties #
The 10 counties of New Hampshire with the most covered jobs.
| County | Jobs | FIPS |
|---|---|---|
| Hillsborough County | 196,120 | 33011 |
| Rockingham County | 152,938 | 33015 |
| Merrimack County | 75,389 | 33013 |
| Grafton County | 54,528 | 33009 |
| Strafford County | 45,566 | 33017 |
| Cheshire County | 30,005 | 33005 |
| Belknap County | 24,456 | 33001 |
| Carroll County | 18,930 | 33003 |
| Sullivan County | 13,668 | 33019 |
| Coos County | 11,096 | 33007 |
Ranked by BLS QCEW third-month covered employment from the same nationwide table the screener uses. A county whose cell BLS withheld is absent from the ranking, not last in it.
Metropolitan areas #
2 metropolitan statistical areas lie wholly or partly in New Hampshire.
| Metropolitan area | CBSA |
|---|---|
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | 14460 |
| Manchester-Nashua, NH | 31700 |
From the bundled place manifest, which derives its metro table offline from the committed BLS OEWS metro index. A metro that spans a state line appears on both states' pages.
Water #
Drought, reservoirs, stream gauges and groundwater wells are reported around a point, with every row's distance printed. That is a county page's section, not a state's.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this state. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 16.50 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 71.30 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 6.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 6,830.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 96.16 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.28 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.10 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -88,576.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 646,347.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series. Reading these as this state's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
New Hampshire: 7 findings, 1 at a watch level and 6 noted
watchNew Hampshire's covered employment is -1.2% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -1.2 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteNew Hampshire's average weekly wage was 3.0% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +3 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteNew Hampshire's covered employment was 1.2% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- -1.2 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteNew Hampshire's typical home value rose 0.4% from $514,431 in July 2026 to $516,306 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.4% = (516306.49223597004 - 514430.73863206053) / 514430.73863206053 × 100
- 516306.49223597004 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 514430.73863206053 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
noteNew Hampshire's covered employment of -1.2% ranks 48th of 52 US states, against a median of -0.2%.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 8 on the 0-to-100 scale across 52 US states that published jobs.yoy.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
The full New Hampshire brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Every sentence in the brief is written by a rule table in lib/brief, not generated, and each one can print the arithmetic behind its number.