Plainville, Massachusetts.
Typical home $599,933 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $2,273 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,648 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,791 +1%
- $591,142$599,933 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,499 +22%
- $490,434$599,933 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.
- Plainville$3,149
- 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 Plainville, MA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainville, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Plainville is a town of 9,945 people in Norfolk County. Half its households earn more than $104,106 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainville is a small Massachusetts town in Norfolk County, home to a population that skews a little older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's, though typical home values and rents are both high. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Among the larger workplaces in town are Plainridge Park Casino, Target and Brammer Bio Plainville. A good number of people work from home, and a typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Gillette Stadium, a stadium for big games and concerts, is a short drive away. The Blackstone River is also a short drive off, a place for a walk by the water. For a longer outing, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a longer drive away.
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- 4,196households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 18%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 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woonsocket weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plainville
- Plainville Gaming and Redevelopment llc /dbaAmusement arcades400
- TargetDiscount department stores340
- Brammer Bio PlainvilleAgar culture media manufacturing302
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter160
- Shawnlee ConstructionCarpentry, framing121
- Super Stop & ShopGrocery stores111
- Plainville SchoolsSchool district107FTE
- Groundworks BostonFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,712 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.
Plainville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainville$599,933
- 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.
- Plainville17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainville9
Zip codes with a Plainville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.