Acushnet, Massachusetts.
Typical home $533,702 (+3.8% in a year). Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,550 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,627 +4%
- $514,074$533,702 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $107,524 +25%
- $426,177$533,702 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Acushnet$2,801
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Acushnet, MA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Acushnet is a town of 10,559 people in Bristol County. Half its households earn more than $89,503 a year and half less, against $85,625 across Bristol County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Bristol County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Acushnet is a small town beside the Acushnet River, close to New Bedford. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than in many places. Incomes run a little above the county's, and the typical home is expensive. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Acushnet Schools is the largest workplace in town, and local trades such as Araujo Bros Plumbing & Heating and D. W. White Construction are among the others. Commutes are fairly long, and a small group of people work from home. Across Bristol County, unemployment has eased a little over the past year, though there are slightly fewer jobs than there were.
Things to do. The Acushnet River runs in or beside town, and East Over Reservation and Freetown Fall River State Forest, both protected areas, are a short drive away. The New Bedford Whaling Museum and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park are also a short drive away, and make an easy way to learn about the region's seafaring past. Battleship Cove, a museum of historic ships, is a longer drive away.
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- 4,173households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bristol County had 225,223 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Bedford Municipal Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Acushnet
- Acushnet SchoolsSchool district125FTE
- Araujo Bros Plumbing & HeatingPlumbers125
- D. W. White ConstructionExcavation contractors106
- DWW SPS JVPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction82
- Price Rite Store 356 New BedfordGrocery stores41
- G. M. White ConstructionExcavation contractors36
- P.J. Keating Company-AcushnetAsphalt paving34
- D.W. White - SPS JVExcavation contractors32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 456 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bristol County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Bristol County and the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
Acushnet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Acushnet$533,702
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Acushnet listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Acushnet20.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Acushnet30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Acushnet10
Zip codes with a Acushnet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Acushnet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.