Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Typical home $411,013 (+0.8% in a year). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,188 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,373 +1%
- $407,640$411,013 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,923 +23%
- $335,090$411,013 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.
- Brookfield$2,157
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Brookfield, MA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Brookfield, in Worcester County, had 824 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Worcester 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookfield is a very small community in Worcester County, with far fewer people than most towns in the state. Typical home values here sit well above what many people would expect for rural central Massachusetts. A somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is true for the country as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow each year, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Worcester County, the largest workplaces include UMass Memorial Health, the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Worcester Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Quaboag Pond is a lake in or beside town, and the East Brookfield River also runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Spencer State Forest and Wells State Park, both protected areas with room to walk and spend time outdoors. For a longer outing, Quabbin Reservoir is a larger body of water a longer drive away.
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- 13%below the poverty line
What people in Worcester County 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 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 64 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Brimfield Lake weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Worcester County
- UMass Memorial HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals18,140
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUniversity or college5,780
- Worcester SchoolsSchool district4,289FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,457
- Waters- MilfordChromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing2,249
- Consigli Construction CompanyConstruction management, commercial and institutional building1,800
- Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,785
- Venture Community ServicescIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential1,673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 671 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 116,907 people in all across the county; Brookfield has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookfield’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 Worcester County and the Worcester, MA-CT metro.
Brookfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookfield$411,013
- 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.
- Brookfield13
Zip codes with a Brookfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.