Tisbury, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,348,488 (+8.3% in a year). Vineyard Haven, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,302 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $103,850 +8%
- $1,244,638$1,348,488 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $347,639 +35%
- $1,000,849$1,348,488 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.
- Tisbury$7,078
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Tisbury, MA rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts
Tisbury is a town of 4,815 people in Dukes County. Half its households earn more than $74,113 a year and half less, against $125,786 across Dukes County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Dukes County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tisbury is a small island town on Martha's Vineyard, and most households here own the homes they live in. Incomes sit well below the county's, even though typical home values are high, so many people stretch to live here. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frost common, while July is the warmest and stays comfortable rather than hot.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Tisbury include Martha's Vineyard Schools, Up-Island Regional Schools and Oak Bluffs Schools. Across Dukes County there are slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is unchanged from a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Flying Horses Carousel is a well-known tourist attraction, and Lambert's Cove Beach offers a place to walk and swim in the warmer months. The Martha's Vineyard Museum, also a short drive away, covers the island's history. For a longer outing, the New Bedford Whaling Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 1,912households
- 7%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dukes County had 9,084 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woods Hole Golf Club weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tisbury
- Martha's Vineyard SchoolsSchool district126FTE
- Up-Island Regional SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Oak Bluffs SchoolsSchool district103FTE
- Edgartown SchoolsSchool district96FTE
- Tisbury SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services37
- Hospice and palliative care of Martha's VineyardHome care of elderly, medical26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 63 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dukes County, 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 Dukes County and the Vineyard Haven, MA metro.
Tisbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tisbury$1,348,488
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Tisbury 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.
- Tisbury16.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tisbury57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tisbury10
Zip codes with a Tisbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tisbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.