Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Milton's schools rank behind 98% of the state's. Overall it grades C, ranked 112th of 125 in New Hampshire. It also does better than most on safety: crime is low: it reports less per resident than 62% of U.S. towns. A typical home there costs about $457K, 3.9 years of the Boston metro’s $116K median household income. 24% of the land in Milton is conserved, against 18% in New Hampshire’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Only 16 of New Hampshire’s 187 towns score lower on health. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 86% of U.S. towns.
Where Milton beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Plumer-Jones Farm| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Elementary School | PK–5 | 237 |
| Nute Junior High School | 6–8 | 105 |
| Nute High School | 9–12 | 166 |
Where Milton’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Hampshire), ordered by how far Milton is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,005 in 1810, a low of 1,005 in 1810, 4,482 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1903 and 2 maps from 1958 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Milton, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 19, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Milton.
Milton sends most of its workers to Portsmouth and beyond and is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in New Hampshire; it also has many renters stretched by housing costs.
The Milton School District runs its public schools. Two of the 4 schools are below, and why each made the list. The 3 public schools in Milton teach 508 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 237 | D |
| Nute High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 166 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NH on state tests and graduation
In Milton, the concentration of trails is 1.3 miles per square mile. There are 44 miles of trail across 17 parks and preserves. The biggest place to walk is Branch Hill Farm Conservation Land, 996 acres with 5.1 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Jones Brook Greenway Block | 7.4 mi | 969 |
| 2. Branch Hill Farm Conservation Land | 5.1 mi | 996 |
| 3. The Siemon Access Trails at Branch Hill Farm | 4 mi | 529 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Milton has 610 jobs for its 2,115 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 434 in 2013 to 610.
Milton had 610 jobs in 2023, up 176 from 2013. Just 5% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. In Milton, the average trip to work is 33 minutes. Half the trips to work are shorter than 24 miles.
| Milton | New Hampshire towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.3% | 10% | 8% |
| Median household income | $94,000 | $103,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.1% | 6.7% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect July afternoons of 81° and January nights of 12°, with about 62 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
New Hampshire has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Milton sits closer to the middle. The town’s level of property crime stands at 7.6 per 1,000 residents, where New Hampshire’s towns sit at 4.4 and U.S. towns at 9.9. The violent crime rate locally is 1.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Milton | New Hampshire towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 7.6 per 1,000 residents | 4.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.5 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Within New Hampshire it is less healthy than 91% of the 126 graded towns: New Hampshire sets a high bar.
In Milton, 13% of adults report frequent physical distress. Among 126 New Hampshire towns, just 4 have a higher share of adults who feel lonely than Milton. 27% of adults locally have been diagnosed with depression; 31% sleep under 7 hours.
| Milton | New Hampshire towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 30% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 23% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 33% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Milton | NH |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 15.9% | 8.9% |
| More smokers | 14.2% | 10.8% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 12.2% | 9.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Since 2006, 15 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Milton. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 62% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 74% come from inland flooding and 5% from hurricanes. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Milton after 10 declared disasters, most recently in 2018.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
63.7% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 48.2% across New Hampshire.
Home values are up 8.6% over the year to September 2026. For Milton, the rent at the middle of the market is $1,587 a month.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Milton. Close and well known come first.
19 mi LakeLake Winnipesaukee
29 mi LighthouseCape Neddick Light
29 mi MuseumStrawbery Banke
27 mi MuseumSeashore Trolley Museum
39 mi Stadium & arenaSNHU Arena
31 mi LandmarkFort William and MaryLake Winnipesaukee: No machine-readable author provided. JohnJHenderson~commonswiki assumed (based o, Public domain · Cape Neddick Light: Stefan Hillebrand, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Strawbery Banke: Ken Gallager (Ken Gallager from en.wikipedia), Public domain · Seashore Trolley Museum: Rene Schwietzke from Jena, Germany, CC BY 2.0 · SNHU Arena: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · Fort William and Mary: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0
None within 15 miles of Milton; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Milton residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Hampshire.
3 places in Milton on the National Register of Historic Places.
3 notable people were born in Milton.
Town in New Hampshire, United States
Milton is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,482 at the 2020 census. A manufacturing, resort and residential town, Milton includes the village of Milton Mills. The primary village in town, where 593 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Milton census-designated place (CDP), and is located along New Hampshire Route 125 and the Salmon Falls River, just north of Route 75.
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6 towns share a border with Milton.
| Town | NH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton | #112 | C | C+ | B | D− | B |
| Milton Mills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Farmington | #111 | C | B | B | C− | B− |
| Wakefield | #97 | C+ | C+ | A | D | B+ |
| Middleton | — | — | B− | — | D− | A− |
Middleton has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Middleton reports no FBI crime data of its own. Milton Mills isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Milton with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Milton grades C overall, better than 25% of U.S. towns and #112 of 125 in New Hampshire. It grades B for health, B for safety and D− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes, by national standards. New Hampshire has less crime than most states, so among its own towns Milton sits nearer the middle.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.
3 notable people were born here, including Alonzo Nute and Robert Edmond Jones.
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