Hadley, Massachusetts.
Typical home $523,705 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $4,995 . Springfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,438 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,848 +2%
- $511,858$523,705 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,405 +23%
- $424,300$523,705 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.
- Hadley$2,749
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Hadley, MA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Hadley is a town of 5,325 people in Hampshire County. Half its households earn more than $119,259 a year and half less, against $87,001 across Hampshire County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hadley is a small town in Hampshire County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm; rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Some of the largest workplaces in Hadley are Target, Stop & Shop and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The typical commute is a short one, and a good number of people work from home. Jobs across the county have slipped a little from a year earlier.
Things to do. The Mead Art Museum is in or beside town, and the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, another museum, is close by as well. A short drive away are the Emily Dickinson Museum and Mount Holyoke Range State Park, a protected area for walking in the hills.
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- 2,282households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 64,889 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 83° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Amherst weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hadley
- Hadley241
- TargetDiscount department stores184
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter128
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores122
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior114
- Hadley SchoolsSchool district101FTE
- Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter (District)School district99FTE
- Trader Joe's 0512 HadleyGrocery store97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,003 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hampshire County, 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 Hampshire County and the Springfield, MA metro.
Hadley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hadley$523,705
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Hadley11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hadley4
Zip codes with a Hadley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hadley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.