Milton, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,073,972 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $3,588 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,957 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $37,502 +4%
- $1,036,470$1,073,972 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $217,756 +25%
- $856,216$1,073,972 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.
- Milton$5,637
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Milton, MA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Milton, in Norfolk County, had 28,630 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $188,529 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Far fewer people live below the poverty line than you might find elsewhere, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, as well as in professional and business services, banks and insurance, and shops. Some of the biggest workplaces are in town itself, including BIDMC-Milton Hospital, Milton Schools and Curry College. A good share of people work from home, and the typical commute is on the longer side.
Things to do. Boston's museums and green spaces are a short drive away. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are both art museums, and Arnold Arboretum is a botanical garden, all close by. For a ballgame, Fenway Park is also a short drive, while Gillette Stadium is a longer one.
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- 9,094households
- 72%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 30%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 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 69 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blue Hill weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milton
- Bidmc-milton HospitalGeneral hospital747FTE
- Milton SchoolsSchool district567FTE
- Curry CollegeUniversity or college530
- Laboure College of HealthcareUniversity or college204
- Brush Hill Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities130
- Fontbonne AcademyHigh schools94
- MiltonMail and parcel delivery63
- Sodexo at Curry CollegeFood service contractors43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,344 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Milton’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 Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$1,073,972
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Milton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Milton24.13%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Milton15
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milton60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Milton22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Milton$1,057,402
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.