Vinyl fence cost in New Hampshire

Basic, standard or premium: New Hampshire prices

Bands overlap on purpose, since a good standard job can cost as much as a light premium one. Below are the three bands for the default size, then a grid from backyard (100 linear ft) to full lot (300 linear ft).

If you are planning more than one job in New Hampshire

Each project weights the trades differently, so New Hampshire's wage level does not push every price by the same amount. Compared with the US midpoint, chain-link fence is +2% and concrete slab −1%.

New Hampshire against its neighbors

New Hampshire ranks 16 of 51 (the 50 states plus DC) for vinyl fence, where 1 is the most expensive. The costliest is Hawaii at $8,250 and the cheapest Arkansas at $6,200, both for 150 linear ft at the midpoint. New Hampshire sits at $6,850. The five states closest by workforce center are listed below.

Which New Hampshire city is cheapest for vinyl fence?

New Hampshire has one metro in our dataset, Manchester, so the statewide and metro figures are close. The state figure uses BLS statewide wages, which include rural areas. Each row prices the default size with that metro's own BLS wages and BEA price levels, so the gap between rows is real local variation rather than a flat markup.

Wages behind the New Hampshire number

New Hampshire's labor line is priced from 2 trades, each compared with its US median wage. After weighting by each trade's share of the work, the state comes out at 1.04 times the national level.

Carpenters (47-2031), 50% of the weighting: a median of $29.42 an hour, in line with the US median of $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $24.12 and $35.46 an hour. About 3,760 work in the state. That is 55.0 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 43.1 nationally, which suggests plenty of local crews to bid.

For construction laborers (47-2061, weighted 50%) the local median is $24.03 an hour, which is 6% above the national $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $21.61 and $28.32 an hour. BLS counts 4,330 of them working in the state, 63.4 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 70.5), so the local bench is about average.

A crew paid at the 75th percentile for carpenters ($35.46 an hour) would add about $160 to the statewide midpoint; one at the 25th percentile ($24.12) would take off about $140. Use that as a rough guide to how far a bid can sit from our midpoint on wages alone.

BLS counts 683,290 jobs across New Hampshire (May 2025), which is 0.4% of US employment.

Why two New Hampshire quotes can differ

• Type and height

  A vinyl picket fence is $30-$45 per linear foot; a 6-ft privacy fence $40-$60, and 8-ft goes to $85 (HomeGuide).

• Gates

  A vinyl gate costs $150-$780 installed, more for large or complex ones.

• Removal

  Taking down an old fence is $10-$20 per linear foot extra, with disposal.

• Permit

  Fence permits run $40-$150 depending on location.

Add-ons priced for New Hampshire

Add-ons start from national price ranges and are scaled by 1.01 for New Hampshire, which is the average of the area's wage index (1.04) and goods price index (0.99). The estimator above can add them to your total.

When New Hampshire weather lets you install

Weather decides when exterior installation can happen, and New Hampshire is not uniform. The table uses NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals from the weather station nearest each metro we cover, and counts the months that are neither cold nor hot enough to complicate the job.

Manchester has 9 comfortable months (March through November), with about 40 inches of precipitation a year.

We do not adjust prices by month, because we have no reliable published data on seasonal pricing. Timing is still worth raising when you collect bids.