Amherst, NH population, income and ZIP codes

Amherst CDP is a very small community in New Hampshire, with 756 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #73 of 100 ranked by population — larger than 27% of them. The median age here is 39.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Amherst CDP earn a median of $165,714 a year, 111% above the national figure of $78,538 and 114% above the $77,368 median for the 65 New Hampshire cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Amherst CDP is valued at $482,800, 59.1% above the national figure and 78% above the $271,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 94.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 756 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Amherst CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Amherst CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.