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Hooksett
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Hooksett sits between Manchester and Concord in Merrimack County. About 15,400 people on 36 square miles. Interstate 93 runs through town. You will need a car.
Hooksett’s 2025 certified total tax rate is $17.19 per $1,000 of assessed value. That is the bill-style number: town, county, local school, and state education added together. On a $500,000 house, figure about $8,595 a year. What you actually pay still follows how the town assesses your lot.
Most people own. A typical house is worth about $407,000. If you rent, figure about $1,660. Household income is around $118,000. Broadband is common. The town has zoning rules, so call the town office before you assume you can put a shop or a second house on the lot.
In 2024 they voted 4,639 to 4,211 for the Republican for president.
Elected Officials
In Washington, the House seat is Chris Pappas (D), 1st District. Both U.S. senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, are Democrats.
In Concord, the state senator is Keith Murphy (R). Liberty Alliance graded him A for 2026.
Hooksett’s own House seats are Merrimack 10 (with Dunbarton). Four seats, all Republican: Stephen Boyd (A), John Leavitt (B), Yury Polozov (A+), and Thomas Walsh (A).
What’s nearby
Grocery is about 8 minutes (Shaw’s). Hooksett Memorial School is about 5 minutes. The ER and the hospital that delivers babies are the same place, Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, about 20 minutes.
If you need a city job, Manchester is about 20 minutes from the middle of town.
Those are map estimates with no traffic. Drive it yourself.
Worth knowing: school facilities bond
On March 10, 2026, Hooksett voters passed a $7,250,000 school facilities bond, 1,611 to 672. It cleared the three-fifths vote on the third try. The money is for roofs, HVAC, boilers, plumbing, and fire suppression at Memorial, Cawley Middle, and Underhill.
Town meeting coverage. The project list is in the school deliberative book.
If you are buying a house
Ask the seller for the paper New Hampshire makes them give you. It covers radon, arsenic, lead, PFAS, and flood. Then look the lot up on FEMA’s flood map. Regular home insurance usually will not pay if the river comes up.
Crime in Hooksett
Hooksett has its own police. In 2024 the FBI counted 11 violent crimes and 88 property crimes. That’s 99 reports in a town of about 15,400. Low, but still real.
That puts Hooksett in line with the rest of the state: New Hampshire’s violent-crime rate is about 110 per 100,000 people.
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