Devens, Massachusetts.
Typical home $569,958 (+0.3% in a year). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,790 (+149%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,698 +0%
- $568,260$569,958 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $157,447 +38%
- $412,511$569,958 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.
- Devens$2,992
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Devens, MA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Devens, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Devens, in Worcester County, had 1,697 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Devens is a small community in Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a population older than in most places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay well below freezing overnight, while summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Homes here are valued above what is typical for the county, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is modest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, manufacturing, and shops. Within Devens itself, the largest workplaces include Bristol-Myers Squibb, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, an engineering research firm, and SMC, which makes surgical supplies. Across Worcester County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. The Squannacook River runs in or beside town, and the Nashua River is a short drive away, so there is water close at hand. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Walden Pond, a reservoir, and to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, one of the best known art museums in the Boston area.
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- 232households
- 22%of adults have a degree
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 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Devens
- Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,785
- Commonwealth Fusion SystemsEngineering research and development laboratories or services917
- SMCSurgical supplies manufacturing459
- O'Reilly Auto Parts362
- Devens Treatment & Recovery CenterPsychiatric hospital272FTE
- Veranova - DevensPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing212
- WestRock CPCorrugated and solid fiber box manufacturing127
- Quiet PlatformsGeneral warehousing and storage109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,547 people in all. Hospitals come 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Devens’ 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.
Devens home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Devens$569,958
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Devens address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Devens — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.