Sherborn, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,210,084 (+1.6% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,479 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,345 +2%
- $1,190,738$1,210,084 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $272,559 +29%
- $937,524$1,210,084 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.
- Sherborn$6,351
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Sherborn, MA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Sherborn is a town of 4,401 people in Middlesex County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sherborn is a small town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and typical home values are well above what most of the country sees. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, nearly all adults have a four-year degree, and very few households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Many people work from home, and those who commute face a fairly long trip. Across Middlesex County, the largest workplaces include Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mass General Brigham, and unemployment there has eased slightly over the past year even as the county has lost some jobs.
Things to do. The Charles River is a short drive away and suits time on the water or along its banks. A longer drive brings you to Walden Pond, a reservoir with a long literary history, and to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, one of the best known art museums in the country. Boston Common, a garden in the middle of the city, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,532households
- 82%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 49%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 903,942 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer 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 82° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natick weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middlesex County
- Harvard UniversityUniversity or college20,667
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college14,957
- BSCInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing9,812
- Mass General BrighamCorporate offices9,695
- Tufts UniversityUniversity or college5,494
- Boston CollegeUniversity or college4,526
- Cambridge Health AllianceGeneral hospital3,806FTE
- Lahey Medical CenterHospitals, general medical and surgical3,793
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,245 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 239,905 people in all across the county; Sherborn has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Middlesex County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Middlesex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Sherborn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sherborn$1,210,084
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Sherborn 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.
- Sherborn33.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sherborn23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sherborn7
Zip codes with a Sherborn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sherborn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.