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Place dossier plate
SheetNH-HAMPTON-NH · Hampton, NH 9,960 pop · income 75th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Hampton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hampton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Point · lowest
35,055
West Point · lowest
35,055 median HH income
21.8% of the leader · rank #1
Livonia · near
96,317
Livonia · near
96,317 median HH income
60.0% of the leader · rank #2
Avalon · near
96,318
Avalon · near
96,318 median HH income
60.0% of the leader · rank #3
Covedale · near
96,318
Covedale · near
96,318 median HH income
60.0% of the leader · rank #4
Hampton · this city
96,322
Hampton · this city
96,322 median HH income
60.0% of the leader · rank #5
Ridgewood · near
96,334
Ridgewood · near
96,334 median HH income
60.0% of the leader · rank #6
Grosse Pointe… · highest
160,589
Grosse Pointe… · highest
160,589 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Hampton on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 9,960.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hampton - the verdict
Hampton ranks in the 75th percentile for household income and the 70th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
75th
percentile, household income
84th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
70th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Hampton, NH
9,960 people live in Hampton, New Hampshire - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $96,322 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Home values in Hampton run a median of $488,400, and the median resident age is 50.4 years. About 43.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Hampton reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 843.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
New Hampshire carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New Hampshire scores 104.2 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,894 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New Hampshire's average monthly utility costs around $307 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.9 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Hampton's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hampton, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Hampton?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hampton?
Within New Hampshire, the closest population matches are Exeter (10,138 residents, $83,862 income); Berlin (9,473 residents, $43,972 income); Durham (10,577 residents, $109,934 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (9,957 residents); Fallston, MD (9,954 residents); George Mason, VA (9,954 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hampton?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 843.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 63% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 43.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Hampton?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.1%
Work from home
20.2%
Drive alone
72.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,184 workers age 16+.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$96,322
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
103 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
104.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Hampton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.5%
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $96,322
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 103 /100k
Cost of living: 23/100 (F) · 104.2 index
Where Hampton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hampton's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Hampton highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Hampton, NH (this city): home $488,400, crime 844/100k
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI : home $418,600, crime 1,110/100k
West Point, MS : home $119,300, crime 2,587/100k
DuPont, WA : home $550,200, crime 1,168/100k
Exeter, NH : home $349,300, crime 580/100k
Berlin, NH : home $113,500, crime 1,878/100k
Durham, NH : home $451,000, crime 265/100k
Milford, NH : home $337,900, crime 484/100k
Franklin, NH : home $243,800, crime 1,352/100k
Hanover, NH : home $682,100, crime 451/100k
How does Hampton compare to other US cities?
Hampton measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income75% higher than other cities
Home value84% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety70% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New Hampshire and the picture shifts: Hampton ranks #24 of 53 New Hampshire cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hampton against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Hampshire only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Hampshire-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Hampton near the bottom of New Hampshire's cities
Among the 100 New Hampshire cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hampton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hampton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#18 of 92
80th percentile in New Hampshire
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 100
0th percentile in New Hampshire
Median Home Value
#5 of 94
95th percentile in New Hampshire
Poverty Rate
#56 of 99
43rd percentile in New Hampshire
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#30 of 100
70th percentile in New Hampshire
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New Hampshire only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
75th percentile nationally for median household income · 70th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hampton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hampton's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Hampton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$488,40016th percentilemore affordable than 16% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Hampton's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,021 of 15,516
More affordable than 16% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,833 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.1×, Hampton sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,021 of 15,516 and #9,833 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$96,322Hampton, NH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hampton, NH median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Hampton, NH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,960
Median Income
$96,322
Median Home Value
$488,400
Median Age
50.4
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
61.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
843.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
103.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
740.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.1%
Carpool
6.3%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
20.2%
Other
0.8%
Based on 5,184 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Hampshire statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $307
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Hampshire at $307 (electricity about $150 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are New Hampshire statewide averages, not a meter reading for Hampton. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Hampshire's BEA cost-of-living index is 104.2 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Hampton is $1,894/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Hampshire statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.9 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Hampshire statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Hampton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hampton compares to similar-size New Hampshire cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.