Auburn, Massachusetts.
Typical home $464,494 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $2,534 . Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,361 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,958 +1%
- $460,536$464,494 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,155 +28%
- $362,339$464,494 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.
- Auburn$2,438
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, MA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Auburn, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Auburn is a town of 16,889 people in Worcester County. Half its households earn more than $116,711 a year and half less, against $95,939 across Worcester County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Worcester County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Auburn is a town in Worcester County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where the typical household earns more than the county's households as a whole. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a four-year degree is common among adults. The population is on the older side, and winters are colder and snowier than in much of the country, with warm summers and a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Auburn are Auburn Schools, Life Care Center of Auburn and KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America. The typical commute is moderate, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Spencer State Forest, a protected area, and Green Hill Park are both a short drive away, as is the Mumford River. For an evening out, the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts is also a short drive away. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, a lake, is a longer drive away.
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- 6,829households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Worcester County had 356,384 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 73 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Worcester Regional Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Auburn
- R.H. White ConstructionConstruction management, water and sewage treatment plant515
- Auburn SchoolsSchool district353FTE
- Life Care Center of AuburnSkilled nursing facilities228
- TransCore - T0638 - AuburnElectrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors210
- BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.Warehouse club and supercenters187
- KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc. (Auburn)Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing173
- Atlas DistributingBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers172
- Worcester Envelope CompanyEnvelopes made from any material124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,053 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Worcester 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 Worcester County and the Worcester, MA-CT metro.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$464,494
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Auburn 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.
- Auburn30.81%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Auburn43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.