Millis, Massachusetts.
Typical home $693,657 (+1.7% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,927 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,661 +2%
- $681,997$693,657 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,344 +25%
- $555,313$693,657 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.
- Millis$3,641
- 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 Millis, MA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millis, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Millis is a town of 8,460 people in Norfolk County. Half its households earn more than $155,996 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Norfolk County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millis is a small town in Norfolk County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live here are older than in much of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. In town, some of the largest workplaces are Roche Bros, the Millis Schools and LCB Senior Living. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home. Across the county, jobs grew slightly last year, and unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Charles River, good for paddling and riverside walks, and Gillette Stadium, where football and concerts are held. For a longer outing, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a major art museum a longer drive away, and Walden Pond, a reservoir known for swimming and woodland trails, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,309households
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norfolk County had 348,528 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 52 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Medway weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Millis
- Roche Bros - MillisSupermarket groc not convenience store250
- Millis SchoolsSchool district186FTE
- LCB Senior LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities78
- Harrison McPheeArborist services35
- MillisMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 385 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Norfolk 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 Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Millis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millis$693,657
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Millis 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.
- Millis24.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Millis23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Millis9
Zip codes with a Millis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.