Why people look at New Hampshire

People look here because the state has no general income tax and no general sales tax. Towns still run a lot of their own business — town meeting, local roads, local schools. Constitutional carry is the law. Homeschooling is legal and ordinary. It is a small state; you can cross it in an afternoon.

The honest bill is property tax. New Hampshire has no general income tax and no general sales tax, so towns raise most of their money this way. The map uses the 2024 DRA full-value rate: dollars per $1,000 of equalized valuation, so towns can be compared even when assessments lag the market.

On a $500,000 property, multiply the rate by 500. A town at $10.00 per $1,000 is about $5,000 a year. A town at $14.00 is about $7,000. The published range is $1.18–$23.70, or about $590–$11,850 on that same $500,000. Click a town on the map for its number. Your actual bill uses the town’s assessed value times its local rate, not this equalized figure. Seventeen places have no rate because DRA lists them as N/A: unincorporated grants, purchases, and locations with no town government raising a local levy. That is in the official ranking, not a hole in the file. Click a town on the map to see its number or that reason.

Winters are real. Jobs cluster in the south — Manchester is the arrival / jobs pin, not a buy-in-the-city target. Some towns have no zoning. Some are tightly regulated. Read the town, not the slogan.

Use the map: pick a shade, then slide each limit to the worst number you’ll accept — towns over any ceiling go dark. Public data for people weighing a move. Not official Free State Project. Not a campaign. Not advice.