Holliston, Massachusetts.
Typical home $735,634 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $2,183 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,107 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,441 +2%
- $722,193$735,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $156,170 +27%
- $579,464$735,634 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.
- Holliston$3,861
- 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 Holliston, MA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Holliston is a town of 14,996 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $159,817 a year and half less, against $130,847 across Middlesex County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holliston is a town in Middlesex County with an older population than most places, and household incomes well above the county's. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Holliston are Holliston Schools, Wayne J. Griffin Electric and Iwaki America. Commutes are long, and a good many residents work from home.
Things to do. The Charles River, a short drive away, is the closest of the places nearby. A longer drive brings you to Walden Pond, a reservoir known for its quiet shoreline, and to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Fenway Park, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5,684households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 31%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 903,942 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer 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 84° and lows near 61°. About 52 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Medway weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holliston
- Wayne J. Griffin ElectricElectric contracting941
- Holliston SchoolsSchool district432FTE
- Stanley Black and Decker/Lista InternationalPatterns, industrial, manufacturing140
- Iwaki AmericaPanelboard indicators, recorders, and controllers, receiver industrial process-type, manufacturing111
- ERIRecyclable materials merchant wholesalers94
- ColantonioCommercial building construction general contractors70
- Performance ContractingDrywall contractors58
- Good Chemistry - HollistonHydroponic crop farming39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,511 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Middlesex County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Middlesex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Holliston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holliston$735,634
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Holliston 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.
- Holliston25.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Holliston34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Holliston15
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Holliston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holliston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.