Dunstable, Massachusetts.
Typical home $797,426 (+0.4% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,238 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,295 +0%
- $794,131$797,426 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $141,331 +22%
- $656,094$797,426 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.
- Dunstable$4,185
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Dunstable, MA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Dunstable is a town of 3,358 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $208,512 a year and half less, against $130,847 across Middlesex County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dunstable is a small town where nearly every home is lived in by its owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Almost no one lives below the poverty line, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Commutes are longer than many people are used to, and a good number of residents work from home. Across Middlesex County, some of the largest workplaces are Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mass General Brigham, though jobs across the county were a little fewer last year than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Mine Falls Park offers walking and open green space, and the Nissitissit River is close by for a quiet day near the water. Farther afield, Walden Pond, a reservoir, is a longer drive away, as are the Harvard Art Museums.
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- 1,117households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 903,942 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nashua Cwsu weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middlesex County
- Harvard UniversityUniversity or college20,667
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college14,957
- BSCInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing9,812
- Mass General BrighamCorporate offices9,695
- Tufts UniversityUniversity or college5,494
- Boston CollegeUniversity or college4,526
- Cambridge Health AllianceGeneral hospital3,806FTE
- Lahey Medical CenterHospitals, general medical and surgical3,793
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,245 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 239,905 people in all across the county; Dunstable has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Middlesex County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Middlesex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Dunstable home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dunstable$797,426
- 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.
- Dunstable8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dunstable address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dunstable — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.