Otis, Massachusetts.
Typical home $531,038 (+3.8% in a year). Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,698 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,488 +4%
- $511,550$531,038 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $131,850 +33%
- $399,187$531,038 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.
- Otis$2,787
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Otis, MA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Otis, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Otis is a town of 1,634 people in Berkshire County. Half its households earn more than $108,898 a year and half less, against $76,013 across Berkshire County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Otis is a small town in the hills of Berkshire County, and its residents tend to be older than in most places. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run well above the county's, with very few households living in poverty. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is pleasantly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents who work most often do so in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property. Across Berkshire County, the largest workplaces include Berkshire Medical Center, Williams College and Pittsfield Schools. Commutes are on the long side, and a good number of people work from home. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Otis Ridge, a ski area, and Big Pond, a lake, are both in or beside town. Tolland State Forest and Chester-Blandford State Forest, both protected areas, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Norman Rockwell Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 698households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents 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 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lenox Dale weather station, 12 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; Otis has one 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.
Otis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Otis$531,038
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Otis 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.
- Otis22.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Otis27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Otis7
Zip codes with a Otis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Otis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.