Zip lookup · MA

02129
Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston, Suffolk County, MA · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro · population 20,032

What it costs per month · 02129 $5,285/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,269 (+75%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $20,481 +2%
$986,375$1,006,856 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $119,687 +13%
$887,169$1,006,856 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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 02129 $5,285 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 02129$5,285
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.

Typical home values in zip 02129 rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 02129 rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 02129 runs $3,416/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,633 in Jan 2025.

That is $6,915 a month against $3,500 rent: a $5,285 mortgage payment, plus $553 property tax and $1,078 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 02129

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$3,000 $4,000 $5,000 $6,000 $7,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $6,915 Renting $3,500 Mortgage only $5,285
$3,000 $4,000 $5,000 $6,000 $7,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$6,915
  • Renting$3,500
  • Mortgage only$5,285

Property tax · $553/mo 0.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Suffolk County, MA

Insurance & upkeep · $1,078/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Boston, MA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $3,500 as of Sep 2026
+6.5%year on year
Typical home value $1,006,856 as of Sep 2026
+2.1%year on year

Asking rent — 02129

Against the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 02129 $3,500 Boston $2,987 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2022 2026
  • 02129$3,500
  • Boston$2,987
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 02129

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 02129 $1,006,856 Boston $725,639 United States $366,157
$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 02129$1,006,856
  • Boston$725,639
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 135 zips in range — sorting picks from all 135.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
1.1 02113 Boston 6,385 $2,868 $722,502
1.1 02109 Boston 3,612 $3,757 $951,157
1.2 02114 Boston 14,418 $3,670 $732,619
1.2 02141 Cambridge 14,517 $3,650 $899,595
1.6 02142 Cambridge 4,737 $3,925 $1,311,411
1.6 02110 Boston 2,342 $4,448 $1,422,475
1.6 02108 Boston 3,794 $3,869 $1,686,190
1.7 02145 Somerville 27,495 $3,238 $815,825
1.8 02143 Somerville 25,513 $3,176 $932,476
1.9 02150 Chelsea 39,908 $2,630 $518,875
1.9 02149 Everett 50,045 $2,805 $619,861
2.0 02111 Boston 8,407 $3,921 $972,203
2.1 02116 Boston 21,978 $3,412 $1,338,758
2.4 02128 East Boston 43,345 $3,111 $649,765
2.4 02139 Cambridge 40,033 $3,379 $990,941
2.5 02199 Boston 1,292 $5,930 $3,281,260
2.5 02210 Boston 6,971 $4,455 $1,487,676
2.9 02118 Boston 28,946 $3,805 $962,145
3.1 02215 Boston 24,581 $3,203 $697,438
3.2 02115 Boston 29,705 $3,185 $901,287
3.3 02127 South Boston 36,769 $3,738 $853,515
3.4 02144 Somerville 25,448 $4,065 $1,027,861
3.5 02148 Malden 65,906 $2,926 $666,917
3.7 02138 Cambridge 38,509 $3,205 $1,133,659
3.7 02120 Roxbury Crossing 15,283 $3,743 $935,642
3.8 02134 Allston 17,667 $2,934 $733,753
3.8 02140 Cambridge 21,204 $3,360 $1,066,152
3.8 02155 Medford 61,730 $3,663 $817,590
4.0 02446 Brookline 31,310 $3,518 $1,049,662
4.0 02151 Revere 60,012 $2,767 $609,679

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.