Marion, Massachusetts.
Typical home $829,102 (+5.8% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,560 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $45,531 +6%
- $783,571$829,102 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $207,444 +33%
- $621,658$829,102 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.
- Marion$4,352
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Marion, MA rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Marion is a town of 5,347 people in Plymouth County. Half its households earn more than $143,092 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 people in Plymouth 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a small coastal town where residents are older than in most places, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes run well above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in the building trades. Local workplaces include Atlas, a nursing home, and South Coast Improvement Company, a building contractor. Commutes are fairly long, and quite a few people work from home.
Things to do. The Sippican and Weweantic Rivers run in or beside town, and the Wankinco River and East Over Reservation, a protected area, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the USS Massachusetts, a museum ship, are each a longer drive away.
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- 2,105households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What people in Plymouth County 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 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 64°. About 37 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Wareham weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion
- AtlasNursing homes160
- South Coast Improvement CompanyInstitutional building construction general contractors77
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US MA Marion Front St (2448)63
- Compass Group37
- Teledyne LeCroy Test servicesDigital test equipment manufacturing36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 373 people in all. 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 floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Plymouth 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$829,102
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Marion 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.
- Marion31.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marion37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marion7
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.