Hatfield, Massachusetts.
Typical home $499,291 (+3.6% in a year). Springfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,351 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,128 +4%
- $482,163$499,291 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,805 +22%
- $410,486$499,291 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.
- Hatfield$2,621
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Hatfield, MA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Hatfield, in Hampshire County, had 1,453 people in the 2020 census. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hatfield is a small community in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. A smaller share of people live in poverty than you might expect, and homes here are priced well above what is typical for much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn pleasantly warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and government. In Hatfield itself, some of the largest workplaces are TurfCare Supply Hatfield, Hatfield Schools and Szawlowski Farms. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Across Hampshire County, there are somewhat fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, a museum, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are the Emily Dickinson Museum and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, both good for a quiet afternoon. For time outdoors, J. A. Skinner State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away.
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- 637households
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hatfield
- TurfCare Supply HatfieldFertilizers, mixed, made in plants not manufacturing fertilizer materials85
- Hatfield SchoolsSchool district67FTE
- Szawlowski FarmsAgriculture production or harvesting crews48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133 people in all. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- 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 in Hatfield’s census tracts, 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.
Hatfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hatfield$499,291
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hatfield12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hatfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hatfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.