Bourne, Massachusetts.
Typical home $681,268 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $2,653 . Barnstable Town, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,108 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,734 +4%
- $656,534$681,268 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $153,850 +29%
- $527,418$681,268 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.
- Bourne$3,576
- 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 Bourne, MA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Bourne, in Barnstable County, had 1,497 people in the 2020 census. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Barnstable County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barnstable County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bourne is a small community where residents are, on the whole, older than in most places, and where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. A typical home costs a good deal, and rents run high, while the share of people living below the poverty line is a real part of the picture here too. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Among the biggest workplaces in Bourne are Bourne Schools, the National Cemetery Administration and Compass Group. Across Barnstable County, unemployment is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Shawme-Crowell State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Lyman Reserve, also protected land, lies in or beside town. The Back River runs in or beside town as well. Farther afield, the USS Massachusetts museum is a longer drive away.
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- 913households
- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Barnstable County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barnstable County had 96,491 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 64°. About 37 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Wareham weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bourne
- Bourne SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- National Cemetery AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs31
- Compass Group26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 26 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bourne’s census tracts, 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 Barnstable County and the Barnstable Town, MA metro.
Bourne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bourne$681,268
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bourne listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bourne23.50%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bourne26
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bourne147
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bourne46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bourne$642,844
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bourne98.17%
Zip codes with a Bourne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bourne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bourne
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02532 | Buzzards Bay | 13,267 | $2,512 | $647,805 |
| 02562 | Sagamore Beach | 3,402 | — | $739,926 |
| 02559 | Pocasset | 2,802 | — | $756,713 |