Glocester, Rhode Island.
Typical home $511,757 (+2.9% in a year). Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,557 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,535 +3%
- $497,222$511,757 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,067 +32%
- $386,690$511,757 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.
- Glocester$2,686
- Rhode Island$2,669
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Glocester, RI rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island
Glocester is a town of 9,974 people in Providence County. Half its households earn more than $113,508 a year and half less, against $78,787 across Providence County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Providence County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glocester is a town in Providence County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than across the county as a whole. Residents are older than in most places, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living in poverty. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Across Providence County, some of the largest workplaces are Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University and Providence Schools. The trip to work is a long one for many people, and more than a few work from home.
Things to do. Thompson International Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away, as are the Pascoag River and the Clear River, both of which suit a quiet day outdoors. For a longer outing, Lake Chaubunagungamaug is a lake a longer drive away, and the USS Massachusetts, a museum, is also a longer drive.
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- 3,873households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Providence County had 290,835 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 80° and lows near 61°. About 62 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Foster East weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Providence County
- Rhode Island HospitalGeneral hospital6,658FTE
- Brown UniversityUniversity or college5,496
- Providence SchoolsSchool district3,151FTE
- Gilbane Building Company CorporateConstruction management, commercial and institutional building3,064
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,016
- Women & Infants HospitalGeneral hospital2,932FTE
- THE Miriam HospitalGeneral hospital2,614FTE
- Encore Fire ProtectionPlumbing and heating contractors2,543
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 493 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84,855 people in all across the county; Glocester has two 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Providence 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 Providence County and the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
Glocester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glocester$511,757
- Rhode Island$508,507
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Glocester 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.
- Glocester34.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glocester30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glocester13
Zip codes with a Glocester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glocester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.