Scituate, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,023,369 (+7.3% in a year), asking rent $3,260 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,178 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $69,193 +7%
- $954,176$1,023,369 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $275,677 +37%
- $747,691$1,023,369 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.
- Scituate$5,371
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Scituate, MA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Scituate, in Plymouth County, had 5,620 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $124,549 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scituate is a small coastal community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the residents skew older than in many towns. Household incomes run above the county's, and far fewer people live below the poverty line than is typical. Homes are expensive to buy and to rent, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in the building trades. Across Plymouth County, some of the largest workplaces are Brockton Schools, Bridgewater State University and Beth Israel Deaconess - Plymouth. The typical commute is long, and a good share of people work from home.
Things to do. Boston's museums and landmarks are all a longer drive away. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is the best known of them, a large art museum. The Freedom Trail is a walking route through the city's historic sites, and Fenway Park is a baseball stadium. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days.
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- 2,483households
- 65%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 27%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 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 51 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hingham weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plymouth County
- Brockton SchoolsSchool district2,014FTE
- Bridgewater State UniversityUniversity or college1,516
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,470
- Brockton Area Multi ServicesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,453
- Beth Israel Deaconess - PlymouthGeneral hospital1,402FTE
- Brockton HospitalGeneral hospital1,307FTE
- Good Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,131FTE
- Plymouth SchoolsSchool district1,075FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 392 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44,002 people in all across the county; Scituate has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scituate’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Scituate home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scituate$1,023,369
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Scituate listings, and the typical home goes pending in 7 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Scituate22.32%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Scituate58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Scituate21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Scituate$1,095,107
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Scituate address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scituate — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.