Welcome to the NH Zoning Atlas
New Hampshire's zoning, community-by-community, district by district
Includes zoning changes adopted through June 1, 2023

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The New Hampshire Zoning Atlas is a comprehensive database and interactive online map cataloging and portraying district-level land-use regulations affecting housing construction across the entire land area of the state.

The Zoning Atlas is policy-neutral, but the maps and data linked below suggest that there is much that New Hampshire can do to adjust our zoning to help our communities to flourish, and to assist our state in attracting and retaining young people, growing families, aging seniors, and a workforce for our economy. 

Click the various links below to use the atlas, download the data, read about our methodology, review our findings, and more.


The NH Zoning Atlas is the product of a statewide effort, including a dedicated team of student researchers, data analysts, zoning experts, and experienced GIS (geographic informations systems) professionals, as well as community funding and advice and guidance from the National Zoning Atlas project.


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Visual Summary of the Atlas

Our visual summary of the atlas gives a detailed explanation of methodology and findings including a Manchester-area analysis. Click the button below for our introduction, methodology, and major findings.

View our visual summary

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Interactive Zoning Atlas

The interactive zoning atlas has the ability to search by location and call up details related to family treatment, ADUs, affordable housing, elderly housing, setback requirements, lot coverage restrictions, parking restrictions, etc. for every zoning district in the state. 

Click for a brief tutorial on using the NH Zoning Atlas.

Explore the interactive zoning atlas

Our Downloadable Assets

To access the data and analysis that informed our methodology, click the button below. Please contact us should you have any corrections that we should be made aware of.

ACCESS OUR DOWNLOADABLE ASSETS

Corrections? We froze the zoning data on June 1, 2023, and subsequently collected nearly 400,000 pieces of data from reading over 23,000 pages of NH community zoning codes.

If you see a correction, please help us by emailing us the details at zoningatlas@anselm.edu.

Meet the students who did the hard work of collecting data for the Atlas!

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Our Leadership Team

Max Latona Zoning Atlas
Max Latona, Director

Executive Director,
Center for Ethics in Society

Ben F Zoning Atlas
Ben Frost

Deputy Executive Director, Chief Legal Officer,
NH Housing

Noah H Zoning Atlas
Noah Hodgetts

Principal Planner,
NH Office of Planning & Development

RLB Zoning Atlas
Rick Lederer-Barnes

GIS Specialist & Environmental Planner,
Upstate GIS

Sarah Zoning Atlas
Sarah Marchant

Chief of Staff and Vice-President of ROC-NH, 
Community Loan Fund

jason sorens
JASON SORENS

Senior Research Faculty,
American Institute for Economic Research

Emily Hamilton
Emily Hamilton

Senior Research Fellow,
Director of Urbanity Project, Mercatus Center

Violet Victoria

VIOLET VICTORIA

Associate Director for the Center for Ethics in Society

Want to learn more about the Atlas? 

Contact us

New Hampshire Realtors, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Evernorth, and Charles Koch
Thank you to our generous sponsors