Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,127,160 (+0.8% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,311 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,393 +1%
- $1,118,767$1,127,160 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $259,262 +30%
- $867,898$1,127,160 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.
- Sudbury$5,916
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Sudbury, MA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Sudbury is a town of 18,934 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $236,250 a year and half less, against $130,847 across Middlesex County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and very few live below the poverty line. Nearly all adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in banks, insurance and property. The largest workplaces in town include Sudbury Schools, Cavicchio Greenhouses and Lincoln-Sudbury Schools. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Middlesex County has seen jobs slip a little over the past year, and unemployment there has eased slightly from a year ago.
Things to do. Walden Pond, a reservoir, and the Concord River are both a short drive away, and they suit a walk or time by the water. For a day out, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a museum a longer drive away, and Fenway Park is a stadium a longer drive away.
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- 6,297households
- 83%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 33%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 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 60°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Maynard weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sudbury
- Sudbury SchoolsSchool district465FTE
- Cavicchio GreenhousesNursery stock growing410
- Sudbury225
- Lincoln-Sudbury SchoolsSchool district218FTE
- Roche Bros - Sudbury SSFSupermarket groc not convenience store167
- Pure EncapsulationsHerbal supplements manufacturing151
- Sudbury Pines Extended Care FacilityNursing homes94
- Bear Mountain at SudburyNursing homes93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,410 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
- 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.
Sudbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sudbury$1,127,160
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sudbury listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Sudbury23.80%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sudbury11
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sudbury61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sudbury19
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sudbury$1,140,436
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Sudbury102.05%
Zip codes with a Sudbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sudbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.