Lee, Massachusetts.
Typical home $423,639 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $1,850 . Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,283 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,082 +1%
- $419,558$423,639 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,975 +31%
- $322,664$423,639 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.
- Lee$2,224
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lee, MA rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Lee, in Berkshire County, had 1,880 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Berkshire County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Berkshire 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lee is a small community in the Berkshires, and winters here are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow and rain through the year. Summers are pleasantly warm rather than hot. Incomes across Berkshire County sit at a middling level, and a good number of households in town live on tight budgets, while typical home values are well above what that county income would suggest.
Work. Residents of Lee work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Berkshire County, the largest workplaces include Berkshire Medical Center, Williams College and Pittsfield Schools. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment has held about steady compared with a year earlier. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Norman Rockwell Museum is a short drive away, and so are the Housatonic River and October Mountain State Forest, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Those who like gardens can visit Berkshire Botanical Garden, also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the Clark Art Institute is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 826households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Berkshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berkshire County had 57,806 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lenox Dale weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berkshire County
- Berkshire Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,275FTE
- Williams CollegeUniversity or college1,351
- Pittsfield SchoolsSchool district944FTE
- Berkshire County ArcGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability792
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing530
- Butternut BasinAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations425
- THE Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse ServicesMental health centers and clinics, outpatient417
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 99 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,288 people in all across the county; Lee has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lee’s census tracts, 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 Berkshire County and the Pittsfield, MA metro.
Lee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lee$423,639
- Massachusetts$655,219
- 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 Lee 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.
- Lee25.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lee27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lee7
Zip codes with a Lee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.