Weare

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Weare is west of Manchester in Hillsborough County. About 9,200 people on 59 square miles. You will need a car.

Weare’s 2025 certified total tax rate is $21.64 per $1,000 of assessed value. That is the bill-style number: town, county, local school, and state education added together. On a $500,000 house, figure about $10,820 a year. What you actually pay still follows how the town assesses your lot.

Most people own. A typical house is worth about $396,000. If you rent, figure about $1,540. Household income is around $118,000. Broadband is common. The town has zoning rules, so call the town office before you assume you can put a shop or a second house on the lot.

In 2024 they voted 3,451 to 2,200 for the Republican for president.

Elected Officials

In Washington, the House seat is Maggie Goodlander (D), 2nd District. Both U.S. senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, are Democrats.

In Concord, the state senator is Ruth Ward (R). She is retiring this year. Liberty Alliance graded her A- for 2026.

Weare’s own House seats are Hillsborough 28: Keith Erf (R, A+) and Travis Corcoran (R, A). There is also a two-town seat with Goffstown, Hillsborough 44. Lisa Mazur (R, A+) is the sitting member on the current rating roster.

What’s nearby

You are not in the woods with nothing. Grocery is about 23 minutes (Lanctot’s). Weare Middle School is about 29 minutes. The ER and the hospital that delivers babies are the same place, Catholic Medical Center, about 49 minutes.

If you need a city job, Manchester is about 54 minutes from the middle of town. Plenty of people work closer than that.

Those are map estimates with no traffic. Drive it yourself.

Weare on the map

Worth knowing: town budget

On March 10, 2026, Weare voters rejected the town operating budget, 656 to 1,015. The ballot asked for $9,638,402, so the town defaults to $9,253,071. They also rejected a new police vehicle and full-time conversions for library and Highway positions.

Town meeting results. Warrant figures are in the town report.

If you are buying a house

Ask the seller for the paper New Hampshire makes them give you. It covers radon, arsenic, lead, PFAS, and flood. Then look the lot up on FEMA’s flood map. Regular home insurance usually will not pay if the river comes up.

First 60 days / living here

Crime in Weare

Weare has its own police. In 2024 the FBI counted 10 violent crimes and 15 property crimes. That’s 25 reports in a town of about 9,200. Low, but still real.

That puts Weare in line with the rest of the state: New Hampshire’s violent-crime rate is about 110 per 100,000 people. It is just a quiet town.

Crime in New Hampshire