Sandisfield, Massachusetts.
Typical home $463,310 (+3.8% in a year). Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,409 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,751 +4%
- $446,559$463,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,517 +34%
- $346,793$463,310 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.
- Sandisfield$2,432
- 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 Sandisfield, MA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Sandisfield is a town of 989 people in Berkshire County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sandisfield is a very small hill town in the southern Berkshires, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Poverty is rare here, and homes are valued well above what many people would expect for a rural town. Winters are cold and very snowy, with long stretches below freezing in January, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and precipitation is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Berkshire County, the largest workplaces include Berkshire Medical Center, Williams College and the Pittsfield schools. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in many places, and the county's job market has been roughly flat lately.
Things to do. Several protected areas are a short drive away, including Sandisfield State Forest, Tolland State Forest and Campbell Falls State Park Reserve, all good for walking among the trees. Dry Hill is another protected area close by. For a museum outing, the Norman Rockwell Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 358households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 16%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 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 60°. About 75 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norfolk Southwest weather station, 11 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; Sandisfield 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.
Sandisfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sandisfield$463,310
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Sandisfield 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.
- Sandisfield18.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sandisfield19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sandisfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sandisfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.