Scituate, Rhode Island.
Typical home $559,216 (+3.7% in a year). Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,650 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,959 +4%
- $539,257$559,216 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,661 +29%
- $433,554$559,216 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$2,935
- Rhode Island$2,669
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Scituate, RI rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island
Scituate is a town of 10,384 people in Providence County. Half its households earn more than $112,315 a year and half less, against $78,787 across Providence County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Providence County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scituate is a town in Providence County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than in many places. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, government, and professional and business services. A good share of working residents do their jobs from home. Across Providence County, some of the largest workplaces are Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University and Providence Schools. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Lake Chaubunagungamaug is a lake a longer drive away, and the Blackstone River, also a longer drive away, is another waterside outing. For something indoors, The Breakers is a museum a longer drive away. Most outings from Scituate mean time in the car.
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- 4,204households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Providence County had 290,835 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 62 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Foster East weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Providence County
- Rhode Island HospitalGeneral hospital6,658FTE
- Brown UniversityUniversity or college5,496
- Providence SchoolsSchool district3,151FTE
- Gilbane Building Company CorporateConstruction management, commercial and institutional building3,064
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,016
- Women & Infants HospitalGeneral hospital2,932FTE
- THE Miriam HospitalGeneral hospital2,614FTE
- Encore Fire ProtectionPlumbing and heating contractors2,543
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 493 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84,855 people in all across the county; Scituate 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Providence 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 Providence County and the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA 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$559,216
- Rhode Island$508,507
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Scituate 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.
- Scituate32.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Scituate26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Scituate8
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.
Zip codes in Scituate
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02857 | North Scituate | 8,262 | — | $547,298 |
| 02831 | Hope | 3,483 | — | $584,686 |
| 02815 | Clayville | 161 | — | $524,628 |