Clinton, Massachusetts.
Typical home $451,980 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,990 (+0.9%). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,307 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,409 +1%
- $448,571$451,980 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,459 +27%
- $355,521$451,980 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.
- Clinton$2,372
- 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 Clinton, MA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Clinton, MA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Clinton runs $1,350/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,473 in Feb 2025.
That is $3,340 a month against $1,990 rent: a $2,372 mortgage payment, plus $483 property tax and $484 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Clinton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,340
- Renting$1,990
- Mortgage only$2,372
Property tax · $483/mo 1.28% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Worcester County, MA
Insurance & upkeep · $484/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Clinton, in Worcester County, had 8,166 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $79,516 a year and half less, against $95,939 across Worcester County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Clinton is a small community in Worcester County, where incomes run below the county's and more households rent than across the county as a whole. Homes here are typically valued well above what the town's incomes might suggest, and rents are substantial too. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying just above freezing, while July brings warm days, and precipitation is spread through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also well represented. The largest workplaces in town include Clinton Schools, NyproMold, which makes industrial molds, and Darmann Abrasive Products. Commutes are of moderate length, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. The Nashua River runs in or beside town, which makes the area a natural fit for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Walden Pond, a reservoir known for its place in American literature. Farther afield, the Harvard Art Museums offer a museum visit for those willing to make a day of it.
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- 3,459households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fitchburg Municipal Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton
- Clinton SchoolsSchool district301FTE
- NyproMoldIndustrial molds manufacturing160
- Darmann Abrasive ProductsAbrasive products manufacturing50
- Corcoran House Assisted LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities48
- Vitesse Systems - ClintonAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing40
- Construction DynamicsAddition, alteration and renovation, commercial and institutional building30
- GTI - Liberty CompassionRaw farm products merchant wholesalers26
- ClintonMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 378 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$451,980
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Clinton 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.
- Clinton21.77%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton14
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.