Boxford, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,055,684 (+1.2% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,108 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,298 +1%
- $1,043,386$1,055,684 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $219,635 +26%
- $836,048$1,055,684 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.
- Boxford$5,541
- 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 Boxford, MA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts
Boxford, in Essex County, had 2,432 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $188,482 a year and half less, against $101,883 across Essex County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Essex County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Essex 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boxford is a small community in Essex County, home to a modest number of people. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and homes are valued far higher than in most places, though fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might find elsewhere. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Boxford are Middleton Schools, Boxford Schools and Topsfield Schools. Across Essex County, unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Boston's best known sights are a longer drive away, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a large art museum, and Fenway Park, the baseball stadium. The Merrimack River, also a longer drive away, offers a stretch of water for a day out. Boston Common, a historic public garden, is another longer drive away.
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- 781households
- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Essex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 326,688 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 48 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Middleton weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boxford
- Middleton SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Boxford SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Topsfield SchoolsSchool district110FTE
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 stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boxford’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Essex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Boxford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boxford$1,055,684
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Boxford 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.
- Boxford23.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boxford20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boxford7
Zip codes with a Boxford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boxford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.