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The median home value in Charlestown, RI is $696,912, up 4.06% from a year earlier.
City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.
Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.
Median Home Value
$696,912
Year-over-Year
+4.06%
Population
8,172
The typical home value decreased by 0.2%, from $698,037 in May 2026 to $696,912 in Sep 2026.
Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $698,037 | +3.6% |
| Jun 2026 | $707,420 | +3.5% |
| Jul 2026 | $703,865 | +3.6% |
| Aug 2026 | $703,140 | +3.9% |
| Sep 2026 | $696,912 | +4.1% |
Charlestown ranks #2 of 12 Rhode Island cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 54.9% above the state's city median of $449,870. It sits in Washington County, where the county-wide median is $683,840.
Charlestown police recorded a violent crime rate of 147 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 416 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 Charlestown, that value is $696,912. That's up 4.06% from a year earlier. It is about 54.9% above the typical Rhode Island city tracked here.
Homes in Charlestown are more expensive than Washington County as a whole, where the median is $683,840 — a difference of about 1.9%.
Charlestown police reported 147 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 8,172. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.