The median home value in Brookline, MA is $1,111,679 as of 2026-06-30, down 4.89% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$1,111,679
Year-over-Year
-4.89%
Population
64,122
Brookline ranks #15 of 134 Massachusetts cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 66.4% above the state's city median of $668,110. It sits in Norfolk County, where the county-wide median is $785,822.
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).
The median home value in Brookline is $1,111,679. That's down 4.89% from a year earlier. That is about 66.4% above the typical county in Massachusetts.
Homes in Brookline are more expensive than Norfolk County as a whole, where the median is $785,822 — a difference of about 41.5%.
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.