Sharon, Massachusetts.
Typical home $872,947 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $3,100 (+0.9%). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,434 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,043 +2%
- $852,905$872,947 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $181,096 +26%
- $691,852$872,947 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.
- Sharon$4,582
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Sharon, MA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Sharon, MA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Sharon runs $3,077/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,246 in Apr 2025.
That is $6,177 a month against $3,100 rent: a $4,475 mortgage payment, plus $770 property tax and $932 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Sharon
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$6,177
- Renting$3,100
- Mortgage only$4,475
Property tax · $770/mo 1.06% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Norfolk County, MA
Insurance & upkeep · $932/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Sharon, in Norfolk County, had 6,184 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $183,808 a year and half less, against $130,739 across Norfolk County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% 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 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. Sharon is a small community in Norfolk County where nearly everyone owns their home, and incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and the great majority of adults hold a four-year degree. The typical home is expensive and rents are high, so the town suits those who already own or can afford to buy. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Across Norfolk County, some of the largest workplaces are Moderna's vaccine plant in Norwood, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics and the Quincy schools. Commutes are long, and a good share of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Gillette Stadium, home of big football games and concerts, is a short drive away, as is Foxboro Stadium. For a day out in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts is a longer drive away, and Boston Common, the city's central park, is another longer drive. The Arnold Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 2,110households
- 81%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 30%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 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 56 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walpole weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norfolk County
- Moderna Tx- NorwoodVirus vaccines manufacturing2,067
- SharkNinja1,308
- Brookline SchoolsSchool district1,265FTE
- Quincy SchoolsSchool district1,258FTE
- Siemens Healthcare DiagnosticsMedical diagnostics1,158
- Wellesley CollegeUniversity or college1,154
- Eversource - WestwoodDistribution of electric power1,083
- Stop & Shop Corporate OfficeBusiness services1,018
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 591 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 74,880 people in all across the county; Sharon has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sharon’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 Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Sharon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sharon$872,947
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Sharon 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.
- Sharon21.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sharon60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sharon22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sharon$888,185
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Sharon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sharon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.