Plainfield, Massachusetts.
Typical home $318,074 (+4.2% in a year). Springfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$836 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,748 +4%
- $305,326$318,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,402 +14%
- $279,672$318,074 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.
- Plainfield$1,669
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Plainfield, MA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Plainfield is a town of 633 people in Hampshire County. Half its households earn more than $63,500 a year and half less, against $87,001 across Hampshire County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% 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 other 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainfield is a very small hill town where almost every home is lived in by its owners, a much higher share than across the county. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are well within what many buyers in western Massachusetts would expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents who work most often do so in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by other services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and the building trades. Commutes are long, and a good number of people work from home. Across Hampshire County, the largest workplaces include the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Smith College and Cooley Dickinson Hospital, though the county has lost some jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest lies in or beside town, and Savoy Mountain State Forest, another protected area, is a short drive away. Notchview, a ski area, is also a short drive away. For a rainy day, the William Cullen Bryant Homestead, a museum, is a short drive away.
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- 246households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 38 mintypical commute
- 26%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 28° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 53°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Hawley weather station, 5 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; Plainfield has none 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.
Plainfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainfield$318,074
- 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 Plainfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.