Halifax, Massachusetts.
Typical home $564,941 (+4.5% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,641 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,175 +4%
- $540,767$564,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,879 +27%
- $445,062$564,941 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.
- Halifax$2,965
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Halifax, MA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Halifax is a town of 7,749 people in Plymouth County. Half its households earn more than $118,556 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Plymouth County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halifax is a small town in Plymouth County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a much higher share of owners than across the county as a whole. Households here earn more than the county's typical household, and few people live below the poverty line. The population is somewhat older than the national middle, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month and summers that turn warm by July, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, government and shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Liddell Brothers and WES Construction. The typical commute is a long one, and a share of residents work from home, which cuts out the drive altogether.
Things to do. For a day out, Boston is a longer drive away and holds the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Freedom Trail, a walking route through the old city. Gillette Stadium, a stadium also a longer drive away, is the place to catch a big game or concert. Plimoth Patuxet, a museum about early colonial history, is another longer drive.
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- 2,955households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plymouth County had 197,448 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgewater weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halifax
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters240
- Liddell BrothersHeavy highway equipment and manufacturing / traffic control devices / pavement marking / sign install / sales and rental equipment / railroad and utility61
- WES ConstructionCommercial building construction general contractors59
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 360 people in all. 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Plymouth 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Halifax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halifax$564,941
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Halifax listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — 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.
- Halifax17.31%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Halifax32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Halifax12
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Halifax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halifax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.