Florida, Massachusetts.
Typical home $290,036 (+6.3% in a year). Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$900 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,239 +6%
- $272,797$290,036 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,764 +32%
- $220,272$290,036 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.
- Florida$1,522
- 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 Florida, MA rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Florida, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Florida is a town of 694 people in Berkshire County. Half its households earn more than $86,875 a year and half less, against $76,013 across Berkshire County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Berkshire County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Florida is a very small hill town in Berkshire County, with an older population than most of the country and homes that are almost all lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents than average live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm but not hot days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Berkshire County, some of the largest workplaces are Berkshire Medical Center, Williams College and the Pittsfield schools. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home, so most travel some distance to their jobs.
Things to do. Natural Bridge State Park and Mount Greylock State Reservation are both protected areas a short drive away, good for time outdoors. Berkshire East Ski Resort, also a short drive off, serves the colder months. For an indoor afternoon, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is a short drive away, and the Clark Art Institute is a longer drive.
Report a mistake
- 300households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berkshire County had 57,806 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Adams Harriman Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berkshire County
- Berkshire Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,275FTE
- Williams CollegeUniversity or college1,351
- Pittsfield SchoolsSchool district944FTE
- Berkshire County ArcGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability792
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing530
- Butternut BasinAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations425
- THE Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse ServicesMental health centers and clinics, outpatient417
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 99 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,288 people in all across the county; Florida has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold 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 Berkshire 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 Berkshire County and the Pittsfield, MA metro.
Florida home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Florida$290,036
- 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.
Zip codes with a Florida address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Florida — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.