Dover, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,736,973 (+2.6% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,976 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $43,960 +3%
- $1,693,013$1,736,973 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $395,829 +30%
- $1,341,143$1,736,973 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.
- Dover$9,117
- 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 Dover, MA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Dover, in Norfolk County, had 2,452 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Norfolk County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in finance and property, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a small community in Norfolk County, with a population older than in most towns and nearly every household owning its home. Homes here are valued far above what is typical across the country, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are colder than in much of the country, with a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and rain and snowmelt fall steadily through the year.
Work. Most adults here hold a four-year degree, and residents work mainly in banks, insurance and property, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Many people work from home, and those who commute face a long trip to work. Across Norfolk County, some of the largest workplaces are Moderna's manufacturing site in Norwood, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, and the Quincy Schools.
Things to do. The Arnold Arboretum, a botanical garden, is a short drive away and is the nearest place of note. A longer drive brings you to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, both of them museums well known across the region. Walden Pond, a reservoir in the woods, is also a longer drive away.
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- 754households
- 83%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 37%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norfolk County had 348,528 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natick weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norfolk County
- Moderna Tx- NorwoodVirus vaccines manufacturing2,067
- SharkNinja1,308
- Brookline SchoolsSchool district1,265FTE
- Quincy SchoolsSchool district1,258FTE
- Siemens Healthcare DiagnosticsMedical diagnostics1,158
- Wellesley CollegeUniversity or college1,154
- Eversource - WestwoodDistribution of electric power1,083
- Stop & Shop Corporate OfficeBusiness services1,018
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 591 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 74,880 people in all across the county; Dover has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dover’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 Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$1,736,973
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dover 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.
- Dover24.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dover27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dover9
Zip codes with a Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.