Pelham, Massachusetts.
Typical home $506,169 (+0.4% in a year). Springfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,416 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,871 +0%
- $504,298$506,169 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,591 +25%
- $404,579$506,169 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.
- Pelham$2,657
- 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 Pelham, MA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Pelham is a town of 1,280 people in Hampshire County. Half its households earn more than $113,750 a year and half less, against $87,001 across Hampshire County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pelham is a small hill town in Hampshire County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and many residents work from home. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground often, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Hampshire County, the largest workplaces are the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Smith College and Amherst College. Commutes are about what people elsewhere face, and unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year even as the number of jobs has slipped.
Things to do. Mount Holyoke Range State Park and Quabbin Reservoir are both a short drive away, for walking and time by the water. The Emily Dickinson Museum and the Mead Art Museum are also a short drive off, for an afternoon indoors. Springfield Armory, a protected historic area, is a longer drive away.
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- 536households
- 65%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 64,889 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 36 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Amherst weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampshire County
- University of Massachusetts-AmherstUniversity or college6,668
- Smith CollegeUniversity or college1,483
- Amherst CollegeUniversity or college1,147
- Mount Holyoke CollegeUniversity or college937
- Cooley Dickinson HospitalGeneral hospital931FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs753
- CS Wholesale Grocers North Hatfield MA PDC424410641
- Northampton SchoolsSchool district476FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 100 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,623 people in all across the county; Pelham has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hampshire County, 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 Hampshire County and the Springfield, MA metro.
Pelham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pelham$506,169
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pelham6
Zip codes with a Pelham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pelham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.