Carver, Massachusetts.
Typical home $588,274 (+3.8% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,747 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,394 +4%
- $566,879$588,274 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $135,458 +30%
- $452,816$588,274 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.
- Carver$3,088
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Carver, MA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Carver is a town of 11,645 people in Plymouth County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Plymouth County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carver is a small town in Plymouth County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. The population is older than in most places, and incomes in the county are comfortable, though a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the season, and summers are warm but not hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Carver Schools and Shaws Supermarkets are among the largest workplaces in town, along with SLT Construction, an excavation contractor. The commute is a fairly long one, though some people work from home, and unemployment across Plymouth County has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Several ponds lie in or beside town, including South Meadow Pond and Vaughn Pond, and Edaville Railroad, an amusement park, is also in or beside town. Plimoth Patuxet, a museum, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the USS Massachusetts museum is a longer drive away.
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- 4,704households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plymouth County had 197,448 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plymouth Municipal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carver
- Carver SchoolsSchool district221FTE
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores176
- SLT ConstructionExcavation contractors59
- Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resort: Cranberry AcresRecreational vehicle parks43
- M.B.O PrecastPrecast concrete products manufacturing32
- Acme Shorey Precast CoLintels, concrete, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 337 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Plymouth 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Carver home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carver$588,274
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Carver 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.
- Carver23.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Carver27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Carver12
Zip codes with a Carver address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carver — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.