Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Typical home $929,549 (+0.9% in a year). Barnstable Town, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,933 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,846 +1%
- $921,703$929,549 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $212,046 +30%
- $717,503$929,549 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.
- Wellfleet$4,879
- 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 Wellfleet, MA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellfleet, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Wellfleet is a town of 3,566 people in Barnstable County. Half its households earn more than $117,938 a year and half less, against $95,241 across Barnstable County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Barnstable County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barnstable County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellfleet is a small town on Cape Cod, with an older population than most of the country and a long stretch of residents who have settled in for good. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values run high. Household incomes sit above the county's, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. A good number work from home. Across Barnstable County, some of the largest workplaces are Cape COD Hospital, Barnstable Schools and Cape Air / Nantucket Air Service.
Things to do. Cape Cod National Seashore, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Marconi Beach. Cahoon Hollow Beach lies in or beside town, and so does Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, another protected area. Winters are cold, summers are warm without being hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
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- 2,069households
- 65%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21%work from home
What people in Barnstable County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barnstable County had 96,491 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatham Municipal Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barnstable County
- Cape COD HospitalGeneral hospital1,984FTE
- Barnstable SchoolsSchool district884FTE
- Cape Air / Nantucket Air ServiceAir passenger carriers, scheduled659
- Falmouth HospitalGeneral hospital613FTE
- Falmouth SchoolsSchool district558FTE
- Captital Properties/Chatham Bars InnAuto courts, lodging505
- Cape Cod Community CollegeTwo-year college480
- Dennis-Yarmouth SchoolsSchool district466FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 156 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,262 people in all across the county; Wellfleet has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Barnstable 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 Barnstable County and the Barnstable Town, MA metro.
Wellfleet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellfleet$929,549
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wellfleet 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.
- Wellfleet25.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wellfleet45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wellfleet11
Zip codes with a Wellfleet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellfleet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.