Heath, Massachusetts.
Typical home $186,774 (+2.6% in a year). Springfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,657 +3%
- $182,117$186,774 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,860 +24%
- $150,914$186,774 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.
- Heath$980
- 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 Heath, MA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heath, Franklin County, Massachusetts
Heath is a town of 723 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $98,750 a year and half less, against $74,907 across Franklin County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heath is a very small hill town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural place. Winters are cold and the town gets a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year, while summers stay mild.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Commutes are long, which fits a town this spread out and rural. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Baystate Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield Schools and Greenfield Community College.
Things to do. Berkshire East Ski Resort is a ski area a short drive away, and Bear Swamp, a protected area, and the North River are close by as well. For a longer outing, the Clark Art Institute is a museum a longer drive away, and the Deerfield River is another longer drive for time on the water.
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- 359households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 25,008 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 57°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rowe 3NE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Baystate Franklin Medical CenterGeneral hospital490FTE
- Pelican ProductsAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing365
- Greenfield SchoolsSchool district284FTE
- Nourse Farms AcquisitionBerry farming282
- Greenfield Community CollegeTwo-year college279
- Judd WireRod, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants266
- Mohawk Trail SchoolsSchool district202FTE
- Gill-Montague SchoolsSchool district196FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,475 people in all across the county; Heath has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Franklin 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 Franklin County and the Springfield, MA metro.
Heath home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heath$186,774
- 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.
Zip codes with a Heath address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heath — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.