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The median home value in Brookline, MA is $1,175,783 as of 2026-07-31, down 5.46% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$1,175,783
Year-over-Year
-5.46%
Population
64,122
Brookline ranks #13 of 134 Massachusetts cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 77.0% above the state's city median of $664,186. It sits in Norfolk County, where the county-wide median is $781,743.
Median household income in Brookline is $142,101, so the typical home value is about 8.3× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Brookline police recorded a violent crime rate of 100 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 895 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Brookline, that value is $1,175,783. That's down 5.46% from a year earlier. It is about 77.0% above the typical Massachusetts city tracked here.
Homes in Brookline are more expensive than Norfolk County as a whole, where the median is $781,743 — a difference of about 50.4%.
Median household income here is $142,101, so the typical home value is about 8.3× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Brookline police reported 100 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 64,122. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.