Hanson, Massachusetts.
Typical home $613,695 (+4.3% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,816 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,072 +4%
- $588,624$613,695 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $137,116 +29%
- $476,579$613,695 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.
- Hanson$3,221
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hanson, MA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hanson, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Hanson, in Plymouth County, had 2,028 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $119,211 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 100% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 0% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hanson is a small community where every home is lived in by its owners. Households here earn more than the county's typical household, and very few residents live below the poverty line. The population is older than in many towns, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Plymouth County, some of the largest workplaces are Brockton Schools, Bridgewater State University and the Veterans Health Administration. The commute is a long one, and some residents avoid it by working from home. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly from a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Hanson sits within reach of Boston's well-known sights, each a longer drive away. Gillette Stadium is a stadium for big games and concerts, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a large art museum, and Fenway Park is the stadium where baseball fans gather. The Freedom Trail, also a longer drive away, is a walking route past the city's early history.
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- 686households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 11%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 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 34 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brockton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plymouth County
- Brockton SchoolsSchool district2,014FTE
- Bridgewater State UniversityUniversity or college1,516
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,470
- Brockton Area Multi ServicesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,453
- Beth Israel Deaconess - PlymouthGeneral hospital1,402FTE
- Brockton HospitalGeneral hospital1,307FTE
- Good Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,131FTE
- Plymouth SchoolsSchool district1,075FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 392 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44,002 people in all across the county; Hanson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hanson’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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Hanson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanson$613,695
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hanson 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.
- Hanson26.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hanson27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hanson12
Zip codes with a Hanson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.