Dunbarton NH Real Estate & Homes for Sale

There are 7 active MLS listings for homes in Dunbarton right now. Asking prices currently run from $550,000 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 Dunbarton currently average $795,486 with a median asking price of $749,900. Averages move with the mix of homes on the market at any moment, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a valuation.

The active listings in Dunbarton have been on the market for an average of 59 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.

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Dunbarton, NH uses ZIP code 03046. The town is in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

Dunbarton's 2025 total property tax rate is $16.34 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.

Dunbarton sits in south-central New Hampshire, in Merrimack County. It borders Hopkinton to the north, Bow to the northeast, Hooksett to the east, Goffstown to the south and Weare to the west. NH Route 13 passes Dunbarton Center, and the whole town lies within the Merrimack River watershed.

The town claims to be the location of the geographic center of New England, based on a calculation made by Boston University in 2008. Dunbarton is in Merrimack County, and its highest point, 925 feet above sea level, is near NH Route 13 just north of the village of Dunbarton Center.

Dunbarton Center is a village of Dunbarton on NH Route 13, and the town's highest ground, at 925 feet, lies along that road just to the north. The surrounding town is largely rural, drained by the Turkey River, Black Brook and tributaries of the Piscataquog River.

Dunbarton was granted as Gorham's-town in 1735 and regranted as Starkstown in 1748. When it was incorporated in 1765 it took the name Dunbarton, after Dunbartonshire in Scotland, the hometown of Archibald Stark, a prominent settler. The Stark name survives in the town's Stark Cemetery, where the poet Robert Lowell is buried.