Dighton, Massachusetts.
Typical home $580,699 (+3.3% in a year). Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,678 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,779 +3%
- $561,920$580,699 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,975 +27%
- $458,724$580,699 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.
- Dighton$3,048
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Dighton, MA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dighton, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Dighton is a town of 8,101 people in Bristol County. Half its households earn more than $136,646 a year and half less, against $85,625 across Bristol County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Bristol County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dighton is a small town where most homes are lived in by their owners, far more than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run well above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. The population is somewhat older than in many places, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm; precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property. Within town, the largest workplaces include Dighton-Rehoboth Schools, Cox Enterprises and Bristol County Agricultural Schools. Commutes are on the long side, and a modest number of people work from home. Across Bristol County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Dighton Rock State Park sits in or beside town, and the Segreganset River runs through or alongside it. A short drive away are Battleship Cove and the USS Massachusetts, both museums of naval history. Gillette Stadium, a stadium for big games and concerts, is a longer drive.
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- 2,944households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bristol County had 225,223 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer 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 84° and lows near 63°. About 26 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Taunton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dighton
- Dighton-Rehoboth SchoolsSchool district365FTE
- Cox EnterprisesAutomobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers130
- Bristol County Agricultural SchoolsSchool district73FTE
- Dash TLM DeliveryLocal letter and parcel delivery services as part of intercity courier network48
- inteplast groupPackaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing43
- Taunton Stove CompanySheet metal work manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 245 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bristol 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 Bristol County and the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
Dighton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dighton$580,699
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Dighton 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.
- Dighton12.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dighton28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dighton13
Zip codes with a Dighton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dighton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.