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Braintree Town, Massachusetts.

A city in Norfolk County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Norfolk County’s.

Living in Braintree Town, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Braintree Town is a city of 39,143 people in Norfolk County. Half its households earn more than $122,214 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Braintree Town was 3.9% in August 2026, and Norfolk County had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.

People 39,143 in the 2020 census; median age 41.3
Household income $122,214 the median, give or take $10,045 · Norfolk County: $130,739
Unemployment 3.9% Braintree Town, August 2026; 4.3% a year before
Homes 78% lived in by their owners; 22% rented
  • 14,432households
  • 48%of adults have a degree
  • 6%below the poverty line
  • 33 mintypical commute
  • 18%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care30%
  • Professional and business services13%
  • Banks, insurance and property10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Shops (retail)8%
  • Building trades6%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 38° and 22°; warmest in July, 83° and 63° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 38° 22° F M A M J J 83° 63° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 38° and 22°; warmest in July, 83° and 63° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 38° 22° F M A M J J 83° 63° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 51 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hingham weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Braintree Town

  1. Braintree SchoolsSchool district742FTE
  2. Fuse BuildsCommercial building construction general contractors450
  3. Encompass Health Rehabilitation HospRehabilitation hospital354FTE
  4. Macy'sDepartment stores313
  5. Boston Gas CompanyNatural gas distribution309
  6. Hub Pen CompanyManufacturing290
  7. TargetDiscount department stores256
  8. indusPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction225

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,188 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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

  1. Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
  2. Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Braintree TownRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Braintree Town’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 Norfolk County.