Moving to Hanover: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Moving to Hanover means joining a real, small, genuinely affluent Upper Valley college town anchored by Dartmouth College -- and a genuinely, substantially expensive housing market this record discloses directly.
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Learn moreDartmouth College's defining presence
Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, is Hanover's real, defining institutional anchor -- an Ivy League school with ~6,938 students (2024) and ~3,355 faculty and staff.
A genuinely, substantially expensive housing market
Hanover's home prices carry a real, disclosed cross-source spread of approximately $835,000 to $1.0 million -- well above the ~$408,776 national median.
A real, above-average property tax rate
Hanover's effective property tax rate ran approximately 1.93%, above both the national median and New Hampshire's own already-elevated statewide median.
Key takeaways
- Dartmouth College is Hanover's defining institutional and economic anchor.
- Hanover housing runs genuinely, substantially expensive relative to national and NH benchmarks.
- Hanover's property tax rate runs above both the national and NH statewide medians.
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