Hull, Massachusetts.
Typical home $707,916 (+3.3% in a year), asking rent $3,095 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,035 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,605 +3%
- $685,310$707,916 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,978 +26%
- $560,937$707,916 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.
- Hull$3,716
- 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 Hull, MA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Hull, in Plymouth County, had 10,072 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $115,485 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hull is a seaside community on the Massachusetts coast, and most of the people who live there are older than in a typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Homes and rents both cost a good deal, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Plymouth County, some of the largest workplaces are Brockton Schools, Bridgewater State University and the Veterans Health Administration. Commutes are fairly long, and a good many people work from home.
Things to do. Boston Common, a garden in the middle of the city, is a short drive away, as is the Freedom Trail, which links the city's old historic sites. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is also a short drive off, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
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- 4,709households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 20%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 37° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 66°. About 49 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boston Logan International Airport weather station, 7 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; Hull has one 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hull’s census tracts, 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Hull home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hull$707,916
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hull listings, and the typical home goes pending in 28 days — 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.
- Hull28.20%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hull68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hull18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hull address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hull — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.