Lunenburg, Massachusetts.
Typical home $544,469 (+2.2% in a year). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,626 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,844 +2%
- $532,625$544,469 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,151 +31%
- $414,318$544,469 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.
- Lunenburg$2,858
- 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 Lunenburg, MA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Lunenburg, in Worcester County, had 1,789 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $109,662 a year and half less, against $95,939 across Worcester County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Worcester County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Worcester County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lunenburg is a small community in Worcester County where almost everyone owns the home they live in, and very few households live below the poverty line. Household incomes run above the county's, and homes here are valued well above what is typical for many parts of the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and afternoons that stay below freezing, while summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and retail. The commute is a longer one than many people face, and a good number of residents work from home. Across Worcester County, the largest workplaces include UMass Memorial Health, the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Worcester Schools, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Whalom Park, an amusement park, and Hickory Hills Lake, a reservoir, are both in or beside town, and the Flyer Comet, a tourist attraction, sits there too. A short drive away, the Fitchburg Art Museum is open to visitors. For a longer outing by car, Walden Pond, a reservoir, is within reach.
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- 780households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Worcester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Worcester County had 356,384 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fitchburg Municipal Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Worcester County
- UMass Memorial HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals18,140
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUniversity or college5,780
- Worcester SchoolsSchool district4,289FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,457
- Waters- MilfordChromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing2,249
- Consigli Construction CompanyConstruction management, commercial and institutional building1,800
- Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,785
- Venture Community ServicescIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential1,673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 671 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 116,907 people in all across the county; Lunenburg has one of its own. Colleges come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Lunenburg’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 Worcester County and the Worcester, MA-CT metro.
Lunenburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lunenburg$544,469
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lunenburg 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.
- Lunenburg37.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lunenburg48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lunenburg19
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lunenburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lunenburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.