Median Home Price in Amherst, NH

The median home value in Amherst, NH is $656,376, up 2.45% from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$656,376

Year-over-Year

+2.45%

Population

11,922

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 1.7%, from $667,540 in May 2026 to $656,376 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Amherst, NH monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$667,540	+1.9%
Jun 2026	$675,465	+2.0%
Jul 2026	$670,681	+2.0%
Aug 2026	$665,478	+2.3%
Sep 2026	$656,376	+2.5%

Amherst ranks #5 of 42 New Hampshire cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 33.3% above the state's city median of $492,253. It sits in Hillsborough County, where the county-wide median is $517,347.

Crime in Amherst

Amherst police recorded a violent crime rate of 8 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 931 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Amherst

What is the average home price in Amherst, NH?

People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Amherst, that value is $656,376. That's up 2.45% from a year earlier. It is about 33.3% above the typical New Hampshire city tracked here.

Is Amherst expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Amherst are more expensive than Hillsborough County as a whole, where the median is $517,347 — a difference of about 26.9%.

Is Amherst a safe place to live?

Amherst police reported 8 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 11,922. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.