Maynard, Massachusetts.
Typical home $600,272 (+1.2% in a year), asking rent $2,453 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,674 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,281 +1%
- $592,991$600,272 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,322 +25%
- $480,951$600,272 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.
- Maynard$3,151
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Maynard, MA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Maynard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Maynard, in Middlesex County, had 10,746 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $124,067 a year and half less, against $130,847 across Middlesex County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maynard is a community in Middlesex County where residents tend to be older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, while typical home values and rents are well up in the range that Greater Boston is known for. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with summers that turn warm and a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and retail. Among the largest workplaces in Maynard are Maynard Schools, Demoulas Super Markets and Hawthorn Senior Living. The commute is fairly long for many people, and a good number work from home. Across Middlesex County, jobs slipped slightly last year and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Walden Pond, a reservoir, and the Concord River are both a short drive away, and make for quiet walks and time on the water. A longer drive brings you into Boston, with the Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway Park and Boston Common all within reach for a day out.
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- 4,821households
- 64%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 903,942 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 60°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Maynard weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maynard
- The Panther GroupHelp supply services497
- Demoulas Super Markets295
- Maynard SchoolsSchool district221FTE
- Penguin Solutions Corporation (DE)Computer software programming services, custom154
- Federal Emergency Management AgencyFederal government · Department of Homeland Security144
- Hawthorn Senior LivingContinuing care retirement communities48
- Verne Q Powell FlutesMusical instruments, toy, manufacturing46
- Panther Global HoldingsHelp supply services38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,136 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maynard’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 Middlesex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Maynard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maynard$600,272
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Maynard 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.
- Maynard23.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Maynard23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Maynard13
Zip codes with a Maynard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maynard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.