Boscawen NH Real Estate & Homes for Sale

There are 11 active MLS listings for homes in Boscawen right now. Asking prices currently run from $129,900 to $999,900. This page reads the live feed, so the count changes as homes come on the market and go under contract.

Active listings for homes in Boscawen currently average $421,318 with a median asking price of $362,400. Averages move with the mix of homes on the market at any moment, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a valuation.

The homes for sale in Boscawen right now break down as: single family homes (6), condos (2), mobile & manufactured homes (2), income properties (1). Use the filters on the listings on this page to narrow to the kind of property you want.

The active listings in Boscawen have been on the market for an average of 53 days so far. Well-priced homes move faster than that average, so if you are watching this market it pays to see new listings the day they appear.

Use the Get Alerts button at the top of this page — it saves exactly this search and emails you when a matching listing hits the MLS. Or contact our local team and tell us what you're looking for; we watch this market every day.

Boscawen, NH uses ZIP code 03303. The town is in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. The post office ZIP is shared with Concord, so check the town line on any listing.

Boscawen's 2025 total property tax rate is $20.80 per $1,000 of assessed value (municipal, county, local and state education combined), per the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration. Village or water districts can add to it, and the bill depends on the assessed value, not the sale price.

Six towns surround Boscawen in central New Hampshire: Franklin to the north, Northfield to the northeast, Canterbury to the east, Concord to the south, Webster to the west and Salisbury to the northwest. The Merrimack River forms its eastern border, and U.S. Routes 3 and 4 run through town.

Boscawen is home to the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery and the Hannah Duston Memorial State Historic Site, at the confluence of the Contoocook and Merrimack rivers. The town is also known for its orchards, its 1913 public library designed by Guy Lowell, and the rare provisional postage stamps its postmaster issued around 1846.

The Pennacook name for the area was Contoocook, meaning place of the river near pines. The land was granted in 1733, settled in 1734, and incorporated in 1760 by Governor Benning Wentworth, who named it for Edward Boscawen, the British admiral who distinguished himself at the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg.