10 Best Places to Retire in New Hampshire

9. Strafford

Score: 17

Median home price: $212,600

Cost of living index: 122.3

Average commute time: 25.48

Crime rate: 36

Doctors per 100K: 195

Just north of Rockingham, on 384 square miles of territory, sits Strafford County, the smallest in New Hampshire. Over 123,000 people live here, resulting in a population density of 334 people per square mile.

The median home price here is $212,600, but you’re surely going to be able to find properties that go for well below this score if you look hard enough. The cost of living index is 122.3 here, well over the national average. The crime rate is 36, which means life is pretty safe here, although, of course, you should make sure to keep safe. There are also 195 physicians per 100,000 residents, below the state’s average.

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