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The median home value in Townsend, MA is $515,628 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.68% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$515,628
Year-over-Year
+1.68%
Population
9,139
Townsend ranks #100 of 134 Massachusetts cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 22.4% below the state's city median of $664,186. It sits in Middlesex County, where the county-wide median is $825,261.
Median household income in Townsend is $58,571, so the typical home value is about 8.8× 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).
Townsend police recorded a violent crime rate of 109 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 482 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 Townsend, that value is $515,628. That's up 1.68% from a year earlier. It is about 22.4% below the typical Massachusetts city tracked here.
Homes in Townsend are cheaper than Middlesex County as a whole, where the median is $825,261 — a difference of about 37.5%.
Median household income here is $58,571, so the typical home value is about 8.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Townsend police reported 109 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 9,139. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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