Johnston, Rhode Island.
Typical home $453,319 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $2,320 . Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,404 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,680 +2%
- $443,638$453,319 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $113,115 +33%
- $340,203$453,319 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.
- Johnston$2,379
- Rhode Island$2,669
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Johnston, RI rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island
Johnston is a town of 29,568 people in Providence County. Half its households earn more than $91,866 a year and half less, against $78,787 across Providence County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Providence County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnston is a town in Providence County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and households earn more than across the county as a whole. The population skews older than the country as a whole, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than is common nationally. Winters are cold and snowy, summers warm, and precipitation is spread fairly evenly 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 Johnston are Amazon, with its warehousing and storage operation, Johnston Schools, and Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Johnston. Commutes are of a moderate length, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Pocasset River runs in or beside town, and the Blackstone River is a short drive away. Also a short drive away is Roger Williams National Memorial, a protected area with historic interest. For a longer outing, The Breakers is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 11,675households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Providence County had 290,835 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 37 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Providence T F Green Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnston
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,016
- Johnston SchoolsSchool district479FTE
- Demoulas Super Markets459
- Life Care Centers of AmericaSkilled nursing facilities260
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of JohnstonRehabilitation hospitals220
- FedExCourier and express delivery services206
- Kellermeyer Bergensons ServicesJanitorial services204
- BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.Warehouse club and supercenters168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,390 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Providence County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Providence County and the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
Johnston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnston$453,319
- Rhode Island$508,507
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Johnston listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 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.
- Johnston23.57%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Johnston16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Johnston77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Johnston36
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Johnston$441,336
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Johnston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.