Everett, Massachusetts.
Typical home $619,615 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,803 (+2.2%). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,589 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,296 +1%
- $616,319$619,615 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,350 +18%
- $524,265$619,615 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.
- Everett$3,252
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Everett, MA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Everett, MA rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Everett runs $1,645/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,797 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,448 a month against $2,803 rent: a $3,252 mortgage payment, plus $532 property tax and $663 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Everett
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$4,448
- Renting$2,803
- Mortgage only$3,252
Property tax · $532/mo 1.03% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Middlesex County, MA
Insurance & upkeep · $663/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 Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Everett is a city of 49,075 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $85,218 a year and half less, against $130,847 across Middlesex County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 37% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 63% are rented. Unemployment in Everett was 4.2% in August 2026, and Middlesex County had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Everett is a city just north of Boston, and its people tend to be younger than in many places. Most homes here are rented rather than lived in by their owners, which is a different mix from across Middlesex County. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes and rents are costly all the same. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Everett are Wynn, the resort hotel and casino, Everett Schools, and Costco Wholesale. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the county, and the trip to work is a long one for many people, with only a small number working from home.
Things to do. Within Everett or right beside it are the Mystic River and the Bunker Hill Monument. A short drive away are the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, an art museum, and Fenway Park, a stadium. Boston Common, a public garden, is also a short drive from town.
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- 17,466households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 10%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 37° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 66°. About 49 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boston Logan International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Everett
- WynnResort hotels with casinos3,214
- Everett SchoolsSchool district905FTE
- Prime NowGeneral warehousing and storage369
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer311
- BOS 9 Commercial StreetAirline food service contractors203
- TargetDiscount department stores189
- PhcareNursing homes180
- Craft MassachusettsWholesale trade143
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,204 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Everett’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 Middlesex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Everett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Everett$619,615
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Everett 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.
- Everett28.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Everett45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Everett17
Zip codes with a Everett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Everett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.