Norfolk, Massachusetts.
Typical home $807,133 (+2.0% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,233 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,623 +2%
- $791,510$807,133 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $150,415 +23%
- $656,718$807,133 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.
- Norfolk$4,236
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Norfolk, MA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Norfolk is a town of 11,662 people in Norfolk County. Half its households earn more than $200,720 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norfolk is a small Massachusetts town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and poverty is uncommon. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are high. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and residents tend to be somewhat older than the national average. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, and a good deal of snow falls through the season. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, banks and insurance, and shops. Within the town itself, the largest workplaces are King Philip Schools, Norfolk Schools and VitalCore. The commute is long, and a good share of residents work from home. Unemployment across Norfolk County is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. Gillette Stadium is a short drive away, as is Foxboro Stadium, another stadium nearby. A longer drive brings you to Boston, where the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Fenway Park are among the best known places to visit. For time outdoors, Walden Pond, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,453households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 33%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 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 56 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walpole weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norfolk
- King Philip SchoolsSchool district237FTE
- Norfolk SchoolsSchool district177FTE
- VitalCorePractical nurses' offices, licensed77
- MAS Building & Bridge, Inc. - Bridge & DamHighway, street & bridge construction64
- MAS Building & Bridge, Inc. - Structural SteelStructural steel & precast concrete contractor60
- Camger Coatings SystemsArchitectural coatings manufacturing42
- ACV Environmental ServicesEnvironmental remediation services25
- Geologic - Earth ExplorationSoil test drilling25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 293 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.
Norfolk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norfolk$807,133
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Norfolk listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Norfolk23.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Norfolk33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Norfolk11
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Norfolk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norfolk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.