Newbury, Massachusetts.
Typical home $935,795 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $3,808 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,869 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,500 +3%
- $909,296$935,795 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $243,823 +35%
- $691,972$935,795 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.
- Newbury$4,912
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Newbury, MA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
Newbury is a town of 6,716 people in Essex County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newbury is a small coastal town in Essex County, with a population older than in most places and homes that are nearly all lived in by their owners. Homes here cost far more than is typical, and rents run high too, while few residents live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Many people make a commute of moderate length, and a sizable group works from home. Across Essex County, some of the largest workplaces are Raytheon in Andover, Amazon and Johnson & Johnson, and joblessness there has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Crane Beach and the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, a beach and a protected area, are both a short drive away. The Merrimack River, also a short drive away, offers another place to spend time by the water. For a longer outing, the Freedom Trail is a longer drive away.
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- 2,774households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 22%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 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 67 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Groveland weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Essex County
- Raytheon_Andover_MA5,177
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,153
- Johnson JohnsonSurgical medical instruments3,110
- General Electric2,628
- Lynn SchoolsSchool district2,413FTE
- Lawrence SchoolsSchool district2,349FTE
- PfizerVaccines manufacturing2,230
- North Shore Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,150FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 528 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 94,818 people in all across the county; Newbury has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 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.
Newbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newbury$935,795
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Newbury 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.
- Newbury21.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newbury29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newbury11
Zip codes with a Newbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Newbury
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01922 | Byfield | 3,450 | — | $856,641 |
| 01951 | Newbury | 3,327 | $3,971 | $992,790 |