Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Unity’s best subject grades are a B+ for history and the outdoors; its weakest is a C− for schools. No town in New Hampshire scores lower than Unity on civic life. Unity Town Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places. Unity has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Unity beats most towns.
Where Unity’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 Unity is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 538 in 1790, a low of 501 in 1930, 1,518 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 1899 and 2 maps from 1957 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Unity, 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 Unity.
Its public schools are run by the Unity School District. The town’s only public school teaches 86 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 86 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NH on state tests
Commuting out is the norm in Unity: 2% of working residents work locally. Among 127 New Hampshire towns, just 8 have a higher typical journey to work than Unity. Employers in Unity shed 24 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 298. Nearly a tenth of Unity workers do their job from home, where New Hampshire’s towns sit at 16% and U.S. towns at 11%.
| Unity | New Hampshire towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.2% | 10% | 8% |
| Work from home | 9.5% | 16% | 11% |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $103,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Unity, the typical rent is $1,625 a month. Home values are up 13% over the year to September 2026. 95% of Unity households are owner-occupiers, against 82% in New Hampshire’s towns and 73% across U.S. towns.
| Unity | New Hampshire towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 95% | 82% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,625 a month | $1,388 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Summers in Unity are pleasant, and winters cold, snowy, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 78°, January nights drop to 9° and about 66 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Walkers can cover 40 miles of trail in 13 parks and preserves. Up on the Hill Conservation Area, at 622 acres with 1.2 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. For Unity, the concentration of trails is 1.1 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sullivan Count Farm Land | 2.7 mi | 462 |
| 2. Unity Mountain Forest County Land | 2.3 mi | 590 |
| 3. Judkins Farm County Land | 1.3 mi | 248 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The natural-hazard score from FEMA in Unity is 61 of 100. 77% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding. Federal aid has come to Unity households in 9 declared disasters; the latest was in 2023.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Among adults in Unity, 17% report frequent mental distress. Just over a quarter of adults in Unity get no exercise outside work; 15% smoke cigarettes.
| Unity | New Hampshire towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 78% | 79% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 20% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 11% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 23% | 23% |
| What stands out | Unity | NH |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 15.7% | 8.9% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 13.4% | 9.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.7% | 6.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Unity. Close and well known come first.
31 mi MountainMount Monadnock
34 mi Ski areaKillington Resort184 runs · 3,031 ft vertical
24 mi Ski areaOkemo Mountain119 runs · 2,165 ft vertical
10 mi Ski areaMount Sunapee77 runs · 1,469 ft vertical
40 mi Ski areaMount Snow119 runs · 1,648 ft vertical
35 mi Ski areaStratton Mountain Resort106 runs · 1,899 ft verticalMount Monadnock: Jonwmcinenrey, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Killington Resort: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Okemo Mountain: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mount Sunapee: User:Josephbrophy, Public domain · Mount Snow: William J Sisti from Morristown, NJ, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Stratton Mountain Resort: Rudi Riet from Washington, DC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Unity
About 1 of every 100 Unity residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Hampshire.
4 notable people were born in Unity.
Place in New Hampshire, United States
Unity is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,518 at the 2020 census, down from 1,671 at the 2010 census. The town includes the villages of Unity, East Unity, Quaker City, and West Unity.
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6 towns share a border with Unity.
| Town | NH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity | — | — | C | — | C− | B− |
| Charlestown | #110 | C | C | A | C− | B− |
| Claremont | #123 | D | C | C | D | C+ |
| Acworth | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Newport | #116 | C− | C | B− | D | B+ |
| Lempster | — | — | B | — | C | B+ |
| Goshen | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Unity and Lempster have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Unity and Lempster report no FBI crime data of their own. Acworth and Goshen aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Unity with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 4.6 years of the area's median household income ($83,269 across the Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
4 notable people were born here, including Jonathan G. Hunton and Jared Perkins.
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