Upton, Massachusetts.
Typical home $709,920 (+1.4% in a year). Worcester, MA-CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,054 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,598 +1%
- $700,322$709,920 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,401 +26%
- $561,519$709,920 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.
- Upton$3,726
- 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 Upton, MA rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Upton, in Worcester County, had 3,090 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $110,900 a year and half less, against $95,939 across Worcester County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Worcester County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Upton is a small town in Worcester County where household incomes run higher than across the county and few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many Massachusetts towns see. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Worcester County, the largest workplaces include UMass Memorial Health, the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Worcester Schools. The typical commute is fairly long, and the county's unemployment rate is a little lower than a year ago, with slightly more jobs than the year before.
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 Lake Chaubunagungamaug, a large lake, and to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, one of the region's well-known museums. Fenway Park, also a longer drive away, is the stadium where Boston's baseball team plays.
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- 1,218households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Worcester County had 356,384 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 52 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Medway weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Worcester County
- UMass Memorial HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals18,140
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUniversity or college5,780
- Worcester SchoolsSchool district4,289FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,457
- Waters- MilfordChromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing2,249
- Consigli Construction CompanyConstruction management, commercial and institutional building1,800
- Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,785
- Venture Community ServicescIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential1,673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 671 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 116,907 people in all across the county; Upton has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Upton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Worcester County and the Worcester, MA-CT metro.
Upton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Upton$709,920
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Upton 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.
- Upton24.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Upton41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Upton13
Zip codes with a Upton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Upton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.