Woburn, Massachusetts.
Typical home $753,085 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $2,844 (+1.8%). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,023 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,882 +2%
- $738,203$753,085 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,248 +22%
- $614,837$753,085 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.
- Woburn$3,953
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Woburn, MA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Woburn, MA rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Woburn runs $2,562/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,579 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,406 a month against $2,844 rent: a $3,953 mortgage payment, plus $647 property tax and $806 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Woburn
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,406
- Renting$2,844
- Mortgage only$3,953
Property tax · $647/mo 1.03% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Middlesex County, MA
Insurance & upkeep · $806/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Woburn is a city of 40,876 people in Middlesex County. Half its households earn more than $111,185 a year and half less, against $130,847 across Middlesex County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Woburn was 4.1% in August 2026, and Middlesex County had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Woburn is a city north of Boston, home to a few more people than a typical small town, with residents whose median age sits close to the middle of adult life. Most homes are rented or owned in roughly even measure, though slightly more households own than rent, and incomes run below the county's. Typical home values and rents are both high. Winters are cold, with January highs staying chilly and lows well below freezing, and a good deal of snow; summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Woburn are Woburn Schools, Skyworks Solutions, which makes semiconductor devices, and Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital. Unemployment is a little lower than a year earlier, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Commutes are of a middling length, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Harvard Art Museums and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are university museums a short drive away. For a longer drive, Fenway Park is the best-known stadium in the area, and Walden Pond offers a quiet reservoir shore for walking. Boston Common, a garden in the heart of the city, is also a longer drive away.
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- 16,432households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 903,942 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 64 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reading weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woburn
- Marshalls Woburn MerchantsPrivate warehousing and storage, general merchandise1,040
- American Tower Corporation - WoburnCommunication tower construction904
- Woburn SchoolsSchool district732FTE
- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. - WoburnSemiconductor devices manufacturing379
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation HospRehabilitation hospital330FTE
- Demoulas Super Markets303
- Peak Event Services - WoburnTent, party, rental281
- Parker HannifinGasket, packing, and sealing device manufacturing279
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 88 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,033 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of WoburnRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Woburn’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 Middlesex County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Woburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Woburn$753,085
- 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 5 Woburn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 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.
- Woburn21.91%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Woburn11
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Woburn76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Woburn37
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Woburn$749,658
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Woburn102.27%
Zip codes with a Woburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Woburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.