Aquinnah, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,794,430 (+3.7% in a year). Vineyard Haven, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$5,172 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $63,319 +4%
- $1,731,110$1,794,430 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $239,711 +15%
- $1,554,718$1,794,430 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.
- Aquinnah$9,419
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Aquinnah, MA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aquinnah, Dukes County, Massachusetts
Aquinnah is a town of 439 people in Dukes County. Unemployment in Dukes County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dukes County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Aquinnah is one of the smallest towns in Massachusetts, a quiet place at the western end of Martha's Vineyard. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Homes here are costly, and few households live below the poverty line.
Work. People who live in Aquinnah work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Dukes County, the largest workplaces include Marthas Vineyard Hospital, Martha's Vineyard Schools and Stop & Shop. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year, though the county has seen a slight dip in the number of jobs. A typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. Squibnocket Pond is a lake in or beside town. A short drive away are Menemsha Hills and The Brickyard, a protected area, and Long Point Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. For a longer outing, The Breakers is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Dukes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dukes County had 9,084 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vineyard Haven Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dukes County
- Marthas Vineyard HospitalCritical access hospital306FTE
- Martha's Vineyard SchoolsSchool district126FTE
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores114
- Up-Island Regional SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Oak Bluffs SchoolsSchool district103FTE
- Edgartown SchoolsSchool district96FTE
- Tisbury SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- Morning Glory FarmVegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 368 people in all across the county; Aquinnah has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dukes County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Dukes County and the Vineyard Haven, MA metro.
Aquinnah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Aquinnah$1,794,430
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aquinnah8
Zip codes with a Aquinnah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Aquinnah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.