Francestown NH Real Estate & Homes for Sale

There are 3 active MLS listings for homes in Francestown right now. Asking prices currently run from $200,000 to $655,000. 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 Francestown currently average $496,667 with a median asking price of $635,000. 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 Francestown have been on the market for an average of 42 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.

Francestown, NH uses ZIP code 03043. The town is in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

Francestown's 2025 total property tax rate is $15.60 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.

Francestown lies in the hills of Hillsborough County, its village set at the center of town. NH Routes 47 and 136 cross it, Weare borders it to the northeast and Lyndeborough to the south, and Crotched Mountain marks the western border. The whole town drains to the Merrimack River through tributaries of the Piscataquog River.

Francestown was incorporated in 1772 and named for Frances Deering Wentworth, the wife of colonial governor John Wentworth. When the first federal census was taken in 1790, the town had 928 residents. It later collected tolls on the Second New Hampshire Turnpike, the only road between Boston and Vermont at the time.

Francestown is known for its historic village, including the Francestown Meetinghouse and the Town Hall and Academy and Town Common Historic District, and for soapstone, which was mined here from 1792 to 1912. Notable people from Francestown include Levi Woodbury, a U.S. Supreme Court justice and New Hampshire governor, whose homestead is one of the town's notable buildings.

Francestown is a small, mostly wooded town where homes are spread along Routes 47 and 136 and the back roads around the central village and the slopes of Crotched Mountain. You can browse the homes for sale in Francestown, NH, with current prices and the town tax rate, right on this page.