Avon, Massachusetts.
Typical home $572,842 (+2.3% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,619 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,954 +2%
- $559,889$572,842 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $108,937 +23%
- $463,905$572,842 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.
- Avon$3,007
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Avon, MA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Avon is a town of 4,777 people in Norfolk County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Norfolk County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avon is a small town in Norfolk County, south of Boston, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. The town is on the younger side for a place where so many people own, and the share of residents living in poverty is low. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Within town, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, PPG Industries and Jordan's Furniture-Avon. Commutes run fairly long, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Most of the better-known outings are a longer drive away. Gillette Stadium is a stadium for football and big concerts, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a large art museum. Boston Common is a garden-like park in the middle of the city, handy for a walk.
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- 1,717households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norfolk County had 348,528 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 69 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blue Hill weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avon
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- PPG IndustriesOther aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing232
- Jordan's Furniture-AvonFurniture stores216
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer213
- Design CommunicationsElectrical signs manufacturing168
- Avon SchoolsSchool district125FTE
- HelloFresh Delivery NetworkCourier services121
- T.L. EdwardsPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,189 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Norfolk 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 Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Avon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avon$572,842
- 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.
- Avon7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Avon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.