Wareham, Massachusetts.
Typical home $483,772 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $2,592 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,411 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,465 +3%
- $469,307$483,772 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,028 +26%
- $383,744$483,772 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.
- Wareham$2,539
- 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 Wareham, MA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wareham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Wareham is a town of 23,303 people in Plymouth County. Half its households earn more than $90,383 a year and half less, against $114,201 across Plymouth County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Plymouth County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wareham is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, where residents are older than in much of the country and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents are well above what many people expect for a town of this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is generous through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and government also employing a good number. In town, the largest workplaces include Tobey Hospital, Wareham Schools and Walmart. A fair number of people work from home, and the usual trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. Wareham has plenty of water close by, with the Wankinco River and Parker Mills Pond both in or beside town. East Over Reservation and Shawme-Crowell State Forest, both protected areas, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Plimoth Patuxet, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 10,395households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plymouth County had 197,448 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 64°. About 37 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Wareham weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wareham
- Tobey HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical500
- Wareham SchoolsSchool district339FTE
- Cranberry HwyWater parks, amusement292
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Trinity SolarInstallation of photovoltaic panels241
- Master MillworkFinish carpentry214
- TargetDiscount department stores175
- Shaws SupermarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores172
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,663 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Plymouth 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 Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Wareham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wareham$483,772
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wareham listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 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.
- Wareham26.36%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wareham22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wareham99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wareham37
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wareham$463,256
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Wareham100.92%
Zip codes with a Wareham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wareham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wareham
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02571 | Wareham | 11,258 | $2,400 | $478,591 |
| 02576 | West Wareham | 4,168 | — | $492,013 |
| 02538 | East Wareham | 4,074 | — | $472,439 |