Middleton, Massachusetts.
Typical home $876,206 (+2.8% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,455 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,064 +3%
- $852,142$876,206 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $174,231 +25%
- $701,975$876,206 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.
- Middleton$4,599
- 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 Middleton, MA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middleton, Essex County, Massachusetts
Middleton is a town of 9,779 people in Essex County. Half its households earn more than $167,402 a year and half less, against $101,883 across Essex County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Essex County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middleton is a small town in Essex County where almost every home is lived in by its owners, a good deal more than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. The typical home is expensive, and the population skews a little older than the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Within the town itself, Demoulas Super Markets, D&M Civil and Veolia ES Technical Solutions are among the largest workplaces. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, a typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Boston's museums and landmarks are all a longer drive away. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is one of the best known, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is another art museum in the city. For time outdoors, Walden Pond is a reservoir that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 3,172households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 326,688 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 48 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Middleton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middleton
- Demoulas Super Markets371
- D&M CivilMachinery, construction, rental with operator118
- Veolia ES Technical SolutionsHazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste108
- VitalCore Health StrategiesHealth screening services83
- MiddletonAdhesives manufacturing77
- Salem MetalSheet metal manufacturing73
- SavATreeTree services26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 856 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Essex County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Essex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Middleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middleton$876,206
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Middleton 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.
- Middleton25.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Middleton36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Middleton12
Zip codes with a Middleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.