Wenham, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,067,870 (+3.9% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,314 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $40,154 +4%
- $1,027,716$1,067,870 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $310,795 +41%
- $757,075$1,067,870 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.
- Wenham$5,605
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Wenham, MA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts
Wenham is a town of 4,979 people in Essex County. Half its households earn more than $194,781 a year and half less, against $101,883 across Essex County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Essex County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wenham is a small town in Essex County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Homes here are valued far above what is typical, and few residents live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many more in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in professional and business services. Across Essex County, some of the largest workplaces are Raytheon in Andover, Amazon and Johnson & Johnson. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Salem Maritime National Historical Park, a protected historic area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Boston, where the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is among the best-known museums, and Boston Common is a public garden at the start of the Freedom Trail.
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- 1,279households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 326,688 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beverly Municipal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Essex County
- Raytheon_Andover_MA5,177
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,153
- Johnson JohnsonSurgical medical instruments3,110
- General Electric2,628
- Lynn SchoolsSchool district2,413FTE
- Lawrence SchoolsSchool district2,349FTE
- PfizerVaccines manufacturing2,230
- North Shore Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,150FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 528 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 94,818 people in all across the county; Wenham has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Essex 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 Essex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Wenham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wenham$1,067,870
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wenham12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wenham6
Zip codes with a Wenham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wenham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.