NH Property Taxes - Town by Town comparison

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The 29.35 rate is a "mill rate" or tax assessment per thousand dollars of "assessed value" per the town assessor.  As mentioned previously, this can vary from the actual market value or even a recent sale price.  Multiply the mill rate by the assessed value.

Anything under 20.00 is relatively low.  Manchester mill rate is only 17.50 +/-.  This is good.  Once you start going north of 25.00, it's quite high. Concord, Durham, most of the towns around Keene are relatively high.  By contrast, New Boston, Manch, and Hudson are relatively low.  Alton's tax rate is great.  The Lakes Region towns like Alton and Wolfeboro, and Sunapee Lake towns like Newbury have low rates because those towns have very high-value homes on the water that pay ridiculously high taxes, thus lowering the overall average tax rate.  Same with towns that have a lot of highly valued commercial property. 

Beware towns that are building new schools, which will jack up the tax rate.  School costs account for roughly 50% of most town budgets.  This is immoral and would be criminal if not perpetrated by the government.