Municipal facts
Name, municipality type, county, region and boundary geometry. These come from published Census county-subdivision files and change rarely. They are the most stable information on the site.
Methodology
Where our New Hampshire data comes from
Our New Hampshire pages and relocation tools are built from a small number of clearly labelled inputs. This page explains what each one is, what it is not, and where the underlying source lives — so you can judge how much weight to give anything you read here. Reviewed 2026-08-12.
The dataset
234 municipalities, 7 regions
New Hampshire has 234 incorporated cities and towns. That list — with each place's municipality type and county — is our canonical roster, and it is the same roster behind the town directory, the maps, the Town Finder and the comparison tool. It comes from U.S. Census Bureau county-subdivision files, not from a listing feed, so it does not grow or shrink with inventory. Unincorporated places, villages, precincts and postal place names are not separate town pages.
On top of that roster we use 7 editorial regions — Seacoast, Merrimack Valley, Monadnock, Dartmouth–Lake Sunapee, Lakes Region, White Mountains and Great North Woods. Regions are Bean Group groupings meant to make a statewide search manageable. They are not government boundaries, and they carry no official status. Counties are separate and are shown alongside the region on every town page.
Three different kinds of information
What each number on the site actually is
Orientation distances
Where the Town Finder or a town page mentions distance to a place you travel to regularly, that is a straight-line (great-circle) measurement between stored municipal coordinates. It is a way of ordering options on a map. It is never a drive time, and it does not account for roads, traffic, seasons or transit.
Market snapshots
Some town pages show a stored Bean Group market snapshot. A snapshot is a value we have saved, shown with its date. It appears only where one is stored — many towns will show none, and a blank is deliberate rather than a zero. Snapshots are not a live feed and are not an appraisal.
When you move from research to inventory, the search hands off to our live listing experience. Anything in a live search reflects that system at that moment, not the stored snapshot on a town page.
Sources
What we cite, and what we use it for
Guides that make a changing claim — a tax rule, a registration step, a testing recommendation — link the responsible agency and carry a review date rather than printing a figure that can silently go out of date.
U.S. Census Bureau — county subdivisions (TIGER/Line, 2023)
Municipal boundaries, municipality type (city/town) and county assignment for all 234 incorporated places, plus the boundary geometry drawn on the New Hampshire maps.
U.S. Census Bureau — hydrography (TIGER/Line)
The lake and river shapes rendered underneath the municipal map layers.
NH Department of Revenue Administration
Property tax, real estate transfer tax and other state tax claims in the guides. Rates and rules change by legislative session, so guides direct readers to the DRA rather than printing figures that can go stale.
Massachusetts DOR — personal income tax for nonresidents
The Massachusetts-side tax statements in the Massachusetts origin guide.
NH Division of Motor Vehicles
Licensing and vehicle-registration steps in the settling-in guide.
NH Secretary of State — voter registration
Voter-registration statements.
NH Department of Environmental Services
Private well, septic and water-testing diligence language.
NH Public Utilities Commission
Regulated electric, gas and water utility orientation.
NH Municipal Association
Municipal government structure — town meeting, SB 2, selectboards, city councils — and the directory of town and city offices.
NH Department of Transportation
State highway corridor orientation used in the corridor sections.
Fair housing
What we will not do
No characteristic protected under federal or New Hampshire fair housing law is collected, stored, inferred, scored, filtered on, or used to rank or recommend a community anywhere on this site. Our tools take objective inputs only: budget range, geography and setting, and straight-line distance to a place you tell us you travel to. We also avoid proxy language — we do not describe who a town is "right for", and we do not characterise the people who live in one.
If you believe a page falls short of that standard, tell us and we will correct it.
Limitations
Direction, not advice
Nothing here is legal, tax, financial, insurance, inspection or appraisal advice. Confirm anything that affects a decision with the relevant agency or a licensed professional.
We publish no school-quality rating, ranking or score, and no crime data.
We publish no commute times, transit schedules or traffic modelling — only straight-line distance, clearly labelled.
We do not publish town-level tax rates or ZIP-code-level estimates. Tax questions are pointed at the NH Department of Revenue Administration and the municipality.
Market snapshots are stored values with dates, shown only where present. They are not live market data.
These guides are general information from Bean Group, brokered by eXp Realty. They are not legal, tax, financial, insurance or inspection advice. Rules, rates and deadlines change — confirm current details with the relevant New Hampshire agency or a licensed professional before you act.
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