Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Typical home $796,042 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $2,506 (-4.5%). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,447 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,077 +5%
- $760,965$796,042 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $198,021 +33%
- $598,021$796,042 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.
- Marshfield$4,178
- 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 Marshfield, MA rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Marshfield, MA fell 4.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Marshfield runs $3,300/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $5,806 a month against $2,506 rent: a $4,178 mortgage payment, plus $776 property tax and $852 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Marshfield
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.
- Owning all in$5,806
- Renting$2,506
- Mortgage only$4,178
Property tax · $776/mo 1.17% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Plymouth County, MA
Insurance & upkeep · $852/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.
Living in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Marshfield, in Plymouth County, had 4,653 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $97,105 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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. Marshfield is a small coastal community south of Boston where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high. Adults here are well educated, with many holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and the building trades also common. A good number work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Across Plymouth County, some of the largest workplaces are Brockton Schools, Bridgewater State University and the Veterans Health Administration.
Things to do. Boston's attractions are a longer drive away. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is one of the best known art museums, and Fenway Park is a stadium for baseball. Plimoth Patuxet, also a longer drive away, is a museum on the history of the region.
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- 1,974households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 21%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 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 38 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plymouth-kingston weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plymouth County
- Brockton SchoolsSchool district2,014FTE
- Bridgewater State UniversityUniversity or college1,516
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,470
- Brockton Area Multi ServicesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,453
- Beth Israel Deaconess - PlymouthGeneral hospital1,402FTE
- Brockton HospitalGeneral hospital1,307FTE
- Good Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,131FTE
- Plymouth SchoolsSchool district1,075FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 392 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44,002 people in all across the county; Marshfield has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marshfield’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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Marshfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marshfield$796,042
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Marshfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 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.
- Marshfield22.72%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Marshfield11
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marshfield71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marshfield25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Marshfield$782,352
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Marshfield101.75%
Zip codes with a Marshfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marshfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.