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The median home value in Watertown, MA is $837,708 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.25% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$837,708
Year-over-Year
+1.25%
Population
35,885
Watertown ranks #37 of 134 Massachusetts cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 26.1% above 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 Watertown is $126,265, so the typical home value is about 6.6× 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).
Watertown police recorded a violent crime rate of 153 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,859 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 Watertown, that value is $837,708. That's up 1.25% from a year earlier. It is about 26.1% above the typical Massachusetts city tracked here.
Homes in Watertown are more expensive than Middlesex County as a whole, where the median is $825,261 — a difference of about 1.5%.
Median household income here is $126,265, so the typical home value is about 6.6× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Watertown police reported 153 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 35,885. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.