Mount Washington, Massachusetts.
Typical home $650,393 (+3.7% in a year). Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,970 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,359 +4%
- $627,034$650,393 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,354 +26%
- $518,039$650,393 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.
- Mount Washington$3,414
- 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 Mount Washington, MA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Mount Washington is a town of 160 people in Berkshire County. Half its households earn more than $142,500 a year and half less, against $76,013 across Berkshire County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Berkshire County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Berkshire County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Washington is a very small town in the southwestern corner of Berkshire County, with a population smaller than most villages. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. 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. Residents who hold jobs tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Berkshire County, some of the largest workplaces are Berkshire Medical Center, Williams College and the Pittsfield schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Bash Bish Falls State Park and Mount Everett State Reservation are in or beside town, so there is protected woodland to walk without going far. Bartholomew's Cobble, another protected area, is a short drive away. For a museum outing, the Norman Rockwell Museum is a longer drive.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Berkshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berkshire County had 57,806 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 50 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Copake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berkshire County
- Berkshire Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,275FTE
- Williams CollegeUniversity or college1,351
- Pittsfield SchoolsSchool district944FTE
- Berkshire County ArcGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability792
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing530
- Butternut BasinAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations425
- THE Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse ServicesMental health centers and clinics, outpatient417
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 99 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,288 people in all across the county; Mount Washington has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Berkshire 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 Berkshire County and the Pittsfield, MA metro.
Mount Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Washington$650,393
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Mount Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.