Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Typical home $503,321 (-0.5% in a year). Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,567 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,772 -1%
- $506,093$503,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,092 +24%
- $405,229$503,321 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.
- Sheffield$2,642
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Sheffield, MA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Sheffield is a town of 3,327 people in Berkshire County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 people in Berkshire County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheffield is a small town in the southern Berkshires, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes sit a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Southern Berkshire Schools and Plaskolite Sheffield are among the largest workplaces in town, along with Sheffield Pottery. Most people have a fairly short commute, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Bartholomew's Cobble is a protected area a short drive away, and Schenob Brook runs in or beside town. Ski Butternut, a ski area, is also a short drive away, which suits the snowy winters. For a longer outing, the Norman Rockwell Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 1,319households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Berkshire County 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 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 50 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Copake weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sheffield
- Southern Berkshire SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Plaskolite SheffieldSheet, plastics, unlaminated, manufacturing64
- Compass Group44
- Sheffield PotteryPottery products manufacturing29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 137 people in all. School districts come 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.
Sheffield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheffield$503,321
- 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.
- Sheffield16
Zip codes with a Sheffield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheffield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sheffield
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01257 | Sheffield | 2,348 | — | $519,121 |
| 01222 | Ashley Falls | 664 | — | $413,128 |