Westport, Massachusetts.
Typical home $674,883 (+6.1% in a year). Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,925 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,703 +6%
- $636,180$674,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $134,950 +25%
- $539,933$674,883 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.
- Westport$3,542
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Westport, MA rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Westport is a town of 16,339 people in Bristol County. Half its households earn more than $96,000 a year and half less, against $85,625 across Bristol County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Bristol County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westport is a coastal town in Bristol County, with an older population than most places and a settled feel. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than across the county, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing close behind. Westport Schools is the town's largest workplace, followed by Capeway Roofing Systems and Titcomb Brothers Manufacturing. Commutes are on the longer side, and a modest number of people work from home. Across Bristol County, unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Westport Town Farm is a protected area in or beside town, a place for a quiet walk close to home. A short drive away, New Bedford Whaling Museum and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park cover the region's seafaring past. Battleship Cove, also a short drive off, is a museum of historic naval ships.
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- 6,594households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bristol County had 225,223 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 38 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tiverton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westport
- Westport SchoolsSchool district211FTE
- Capeway Roofing SystemsRoofing contractors99
- Titcomb Brothers ManufacturingBuilder's hardware, metal, manufacturing59
- COASTAL DERMATOLOGY-WestportPhysicians' offices25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 183 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Bristol 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 Bristol County and the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro.
Westport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westport$674,883
- 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 3 Westport listings — 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.
- Westport29.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Westport53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Westport13
Zip codes with a Westport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.