Holbrook, Massachusetts.
Typical home $557,810 (+2.6% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,561 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,374 +3%
- $543,435$557,810 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $105,969 +23%
- $451,840$557,810 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.
- Holbrook$2,928
- 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 Holbrook, MA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holbrook, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Holbrook, in Norfolk County, had 11,405 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $115,210 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Norfolk County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holbrook is a small community in Norfolk County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Households here earn somewhat less than the county as a whole, and the typical home is valued well above what many places in the country ask. Residents tend to be middle-aged, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, the building trades and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Holbrook are Holbrook Schools, Quality Air Metals, a sheet metal ductwork installer, and NEC Group, a structural steel contractor. The commute to work is a long one, and a fair number of people skip it by working from home. Unemployment across Norfolk County has eased a little compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Boston's best-known sights are a longer drive away, and they make for a full day out. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are well-loved art museums, while Fenway Park is the ballpark where baseball fans gather. For a quieter outing, the Arnold Arboretum is a botanical garden within the same longer drive.
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- 4,384households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norfolk County had 348,528 jobs in 2025, 0.6% 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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holbrook
- Holbrook SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Quality Air MetalsSheet metal ductwork installation90
- NEC GroupStructural steel erecting or iron work contractors83
- Hallamore HolbrookCrane rental with operator45
- Taylor Oil NortheastFuel delivery service44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 262 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holbrook’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 Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Holbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holbrook$557,810
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Holbrook 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.
- Holbrook17.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Holbrook37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Holbrook14
Zip codes with a Holbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.