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The median home value in Newport, RI is $962,240 as of 2026-07-31, up 7.82% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$962,240
Year-over-Year
+7.82%
Population
24,957
Newport ranks #1 of 12 Rhode Island cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 110.2% above the state's city median of $457,766. It sits in Newport County, where the county-wide median is $788,245.
Median household income in Newport is $86,313, so the typical home value is about 11.1× 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).
Newport police recorded a violent crime rate of 176 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,491 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 Newport, that value is $962,240. That's up 7.82% from a year earlier. It is about 110.2% above the typical Rhode Island city tracked here.
Homes in Newport are more expensive than Newport County as a whole, where the median is $788,245 — a difference of about 22.1%.
Median household income here is $86,313, so the typical home value is about 11.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Newport police reported 176 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 24,957. 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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