Plympton, Massachusetts.
Typical home $680,529 (+3.5% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,010 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,234 +4%
- $657,296$680,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,234 +28%
- $532,296$680,529 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.
- Plympton$3,572
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Plympton, MA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Plympton is a town of 2,930 people in Plymouth County. Half its households earn more than $126,736 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Plymouth County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plympton is a small town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Residents tend to be older than in many towns, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow mixed into a year of steady rain, while July brings warm days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in professional and business services. Within town, some of the largest workplaces are Sysco Boston, Capstone Sysco Boston and the Tractor Supply Company store, and a good number of people also work from home. Commutes tend to be long, which is common for a town set well away from the larger job centers.
Things to do. The Winnetuxet River runs in or beside town, and the Jones River is a short drive away. Plimoth Patuxet, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Nantasket Beach is a seaside beach a longer drive off.
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- 1,065households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plymouth County had 197,448 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plymouth Municipal Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plympton
- Sysco BostonGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers801
- Capstone Sysco BostonGeneral warehousing and storage42
- Tractor Supply Company StoreGeneral merchandise stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 863 people in all. 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Plymouth 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Plympton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plympton$680,529
- 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.
- Plympton10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Plympton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plympton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.