HIGHEST AND LOWEST PROPERTY TAX RATES IN GREATER BOSTON

The average single-family property tax bill in Massachusetts in 2022 is $6,719, up $347 from the previous year, according to a recent report conducted by the Division of Local Services, Massachusetts Department of Revenue. The average tax rate in Massachusetts is now $14.58 for every $1,000 in assessed property value.

Towns and cities with the highest tax rates are not necessarily those with the highest tax bills. The assessed value of the homes is also part of the equation. The highest tax rate in the state goes to Longmeadow, a town near Springfield, which has an annual tax rate of $24.64, but the average home value is $392,945, putting the average tax bill at $9,682.

The highest tax bills in Massachusetts are in many communities outside of Boston within the 495 beltway. Weston, which has an average home value of $1,777,218 has an average tax bill of $22,766 the highest in the state. The town of Brookline comes in second, with an average tax bill of $20,492 and an average home value of $2,011,023.

As you can see from this chart, many areas surrounding Boston have tax bills above $14,000 a year.

Most towns in western Massachusetts with assessed home values lower than the state average have the lowest tax bills in the state, such as the town of Hancock, with an average annual tax bill of just $807 and an average home value of $269,118. The town of Rowe, in northwestern Massachusetts near Vermont, has an annual tax bill of $1,397 and an average home value of $262,188.

Towns in the Cape and the Islands have high property values yet very low tax rates and thus have relatively low tax bills. This is because many of these properties are vacation properties so they don’t require taxes to pay for services and amenities off-season.

Town-based tax exemptions may impact the annual tax burden per household.

For home buyers looking for reasonable tax rates but who still want to live in the metro Boston area, there are several cities or towns where the combination of reasonable tax rates and home values puts their tax bills below the state average. Towns and cities in the Greater Boston area with the lowest tax bills are:

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Tax rates for all towns and cities in Massachusetts for 2022

Municipality	Single Family Tax Bill*	Residential Rate in $ (per $1,000 of assessed value)
Abington	6,910	15.22
Acton	12,950	19.45
Acushnet	4,576	13.27
Adams	3,472	20.89
Agawam	4,438	16.11
Alford	4,193	5.25
Amesbury	8,033	17.69
Amherst	8,609	21.27
Andover	11,075	14.6
Aquinnah	9,966	6.27
Arlington	9,646	11.42
Ashburnham	5,527	18.88
Ashby	5,230	17.69
Ashfield	4,752	17.38
Ashland	8,277	15.88
Athol	3,319	16.05
Attleboro	5,197	14.45
Auburn	5,379	16.82
Avon	6,193	15.81
Ayer	5,365	13.42
Barnstable	4,843	8.64
Barre	4,279	16.84
Becket	2,973	10.8
Bedford	10,512	13.58
Belchertown	5,412	17.66
Bellingham	5,073	14.08
Belmont	15,568	11.56
Berkley	5,790	13.75
Berlin	7,201	15.63
Bernardston	4,673	17.2
Beverly	7,471	12.17
Billerica	5,941	12.64
Blackstone	5,902	17.9
Blandford	3,775	14.79
Bolton	11,779	19.87
Boston	5,212	10.88
Bourne	5,295	10.09
Boxborough	11,420	17.42
Boxford	11,242	15.22
Boylston	7,243	15.84
Braintree	5,801	9.95
Brewster	5,091	7.85
Bridgewater	6,553	14.32
Brimfield	4,786	16.43
Brockton	4,767	13.97
Brookfield	4,669	16.43
Brookline	20,492	10.19
Buckland	4,673	16.78
Burlington	5,975	9.95
Cambridge	9,691	5.92
Canton	7,466	11.35
Carlisle	15,438	16.5
Carver	6,187	15.98
Charlemont	4,601	20.73
Charlton	4,588	13.29
Chatham	5,164	4.62
Chelmsford	7,829	15.77
Chelsea	3,494	13.25
Cheshire	2,994	12.76
Chester	3,745	19.18
Chesterfield	5,015	18.25
Chicopee	3,663	16.99
Chilmark	6,135	2.82
Clarksburg	3,287	16.48
Clinton	4,898	14.91
Cohasset	13,848	12.56
Colrain	4,113	20.48
Concord	16,611	14.76
Conway	5,646	17.95
Cummington	3,772	14.45
Dalton	4,882	20.74
Danvers	6,933	12.66
Dartmouth	4,431	9.47
Dedham	7,980	13.35
Deerfield	5,165	15.17
Dennis	3,242	5.6
Dighton	5,531	14.29
Douglas	5,840	16.34
Dover	15,715	12.42
Dracut	5,190	12.29
Dudley	3,608	11.7
Dunstable	8,280	15.25
Duxbury	11,466	12.84
East Bridgewater	6,562	15.6
East Brookfield	4,032	13.53
East Longmeadow	6,253	20.29
Eastham	4,920	8.58
Easthampton	4,906	16.53
Easton	7,886	15.39
Edgartown	5,555	3.03
Egremont	4,202	7.93
Erving	1,736	7.9
Essex	10,441	15.7
Everett	3,907	10.36
Fairhaven	3,743	10.22
Fall River	3,584	12.62
Falmouth	5,080	8.05
Fitchburg	4,444	17.61
Florida	1,501	8.82
Foxborough	7,458	14.52
Framingham	6,747	13.74
Franklin	7,121	14.05
Freetown	4,825	12.06
Gardner	4,423	18.59
Georgetown	7,545	14.08
Gill	4,005	16.66
Gloucester	8,075	11.73
Goshen	4,238	16.13
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Grafton	7,572	16.88
Granby	5,605	19.06
Granville	4,186	15.28
Great Barrington	6,635	14.86
Greenfield	4,938	22.32
Groton	9,198	17.19
Groveland	7,383	14.47
Hadley	4,468	12.18
Halifax	6,589	16.01
Hamilton	11,249	17.88
Hampden	5,784	18.72
Hancock	807	3
Hanover	9,046	15.25
Hanson	6,236	15.09
Hardwick	4,061	14.7
Harvard	12,085	17.91
Harwich	5,162	8.11
Hatfield	4,789	13.67
Haverhill	4,954	12.72
Hawley	4,042	17.52
Heath	4,207	21.51
Hingham	10,723	11.56
Hinsdale	3,599	13.66
Holbrook	6,015	16.49
Holden	6,382	16.56
Holland	3,988	15.54
Holliston	9,089	17.38
Holyoke	4,227	19.26
Hopedale	7,042	17.11
Hopkinton	11,597	17.03
Hubbardston	4,414	14
Hudson	6,968	15.86
Hull	6,741	12.54
Huntington	4,190	17.56
Ipswich	7,958	12.86
Kingston	7,103	14.58
Lakeville	5,422	12.07
Lancaster	7,570	19.45
Lanesborough	4,992	19.1
Lawrence	3,650	11.44
Lee	3,959	13.65
Leicester	4,127	13.99
Lenox	5,068	10.84
Leominster	5,504	16.56
Leverett	6,515	18.84
Lexington	16,613	13.8
Leyden	4,385	16.14
Lincoln	18,617	14.93
Littleton	9,178	17.71
Longmeadow	9,682	24.64
Lowell	4,674	12.69
Ludlow	5,031	19.99
Lunenburg	6,436	17.19
Lynn	5,195	12.43
Lynnfield	9,818	11.99
Malden	4,278	12.35
Manchester By The Sea	14,141	10.6
Mansfield	7,682	15.17
Marblehead	9,935	10.52
Marion	7,685	10.85
Marlborough	5,657	13.12
Marshfield	6,748	12.95
Mashpee	5,151	8.03
Mattapoisett	7,168	12.4
Maynard	8,498	20.52
Medfield	12,555	17.42
Medford	5,896	9.01
Medway	8,078	16.93
Melrose	7,435	10.57
Mendon	7,781	15.41
Merrimac	7,483	16.34
Methuen	5,118	13.05
Middleborough	5,678	15.38
Middlefield	3,839	17.79
Middleton	9,130	13.25
Milford	5,803	15.39
Millbury	4,911	15
Millis	8,734	18.88
Millville	5,097	15.11
Milton	10,281	12.47
Monroe	1,557	11.61
Monson	4,553	17.83
Montague	3,941	16.76
Monterey	4,201	7.28
Montgomery	3,992	13.95
Mount Washington	3,022	6.11
Nahant	8,168	9.79
Nantucket	6,847	3.74
Natick	9,157	13.34
Needham	13,586	13.37
New Ashford	3,306	10.94
New Bedford	4,055	15.54
New Braintree	4,703	16.25
New Marlborough	4,388	9.3
New Salem	4,526	18.92
Newbury	6,217	9.73
Newburyport	8,430	12.01
Newton	14,024	10.52
Norfolk	9,750	18.2
North Adams	3,105	18.53
North Andover	8,219	13.53
North Attleborough	6,013	13.93
North Brookfield	3,925	14.86
North Reading	9,888	15
Northampton	6,303	17.89
Northborough	8,195	16.49
Northbridge	5,059	13.77
Northfield	3,390	13.85
Norton	6,025	14.26
Norwell	11,752	16.62
Norwood	5,952	10.75
Oak Bluffs	6,279	6.79
Oakham	3,918	12.72
Orange	3,875	19.12
Orleans	6,703	7.2
Otis	2,838	7.75
Oxford	4,570	16.16
Palmer	4,269	19.83
Paxton	6,969	18.98
Peabody	5,016	10.1
Pelham	7,112	20.56
Pembroke	6,393	14.15
Pepperell	6,568	17.15
Peru	3,904	18.32
Petersham	3,845	13.54
Phillipston	4,123	15.58
Pittsfield	4,122	18.56
Plainfield	4,167	19.95
Plainville	6,108	14.03
Plymouth	6,438	15.43
Plympton	7,227	16.81
Princeton	6,630	15.68
Provincetown	8,085	6.66
Quincy	6,510	11.98
Randolph	5,501	13.6
Raynham	6,352	14.83
Reading	9,313	13.33
Rehoboth	5,689	12.67
Revere	4,920	10.4
Richmond	5,710	12.74
Rochester	6,001	12.74
Rockland	6,516	16.75
Rockport	7,248	9.82
Rowe	1,397	5.33
Rowley	7,753	14.62
Royalston	2,787	12.21
Russell	4,850	19.9
Rutland	5,519	15.79
Salem	6,168	13.25
Salisbury	5,100	11.14
Sandisfield	3,654	12.9
Sandwich	6,547	13.16
Saugus	6,117	12.01
Savoy	2,585	14.4
Scituate	8,783	12.62
Seekonk	5,265	13.34
Sharon	12,020	19.75
Sheffield	4,794	12.44
Shelburne	4,538	14.49
Sherborn	16,760	19.03
Shirley	5,472	15.48
Shrewsbury	7,383	14.11
Shutesbury	5,876	21.83
Somerset	4,590	13.29
Somerville	6,879	10.18
South Hadley	4,940	16.45
Southampton	5,447	15.07
Southborough	11,234	16.28
Southbridge	4,266	17.9
Southwick	5,127	16.98
Spencer	3,932	13.16
Springfield	3,484	18.82
Sterling	6,259	15.25
Stockbridge	5,633	9.38
Stoneham	6,354	10.41
Stoughton	6,171	14.41
Stow	10,893	19.56
Sturbridge	6,538	19.15
Sudbury	14,395	18.05
Sunderland	4,916	14.7
Sutton	6,522	15.18
Swampscott	9,128	12.83
Swansea	4,419	13.05
Taunton	4,420	13.18
Templeton	4,051	15.24
Tewksbury	7,434	15.2
Tisbury	9,150	8.7
Tolland	2,901	9
Topsfield	11,398	16.65
Townsend	5,798	17.61
Truro	6,401	7.73
Tyngsborough	6,806	14.94
Tyringham	3,748	6.72
Upton	7,797	16.77
Uxbridge	5,365	15.16
Wakefield	7,765	12.32
Wales	3,981	18.52
Walpole	8,551	14.46
Waltham	4,631	11.14
Ware	4,182	19.34
Wareham	3,513	10.87
Warren	3,491	15.56
Warwick	4,107	21.07
Washington	4,080	14.84
Watertown	7,072	13.25
Wayland	15,386	18.35
Webster	4,391	13.96
Wellesley	16,889	11.68
Wellfleet	5,389	7.78
Wendell	4,340	23.24
Wenham	14,265	19.58
West Boylston	6,426	17.68
West Bridgewater	6,199	16.22
West Brookfield	3,875	13.23
West Newbury	8,754	13.01
West Springfield	4,086	15.76
West Stockbridge	5,717	12.56
West Tisbury	7,172	5.82
Westborough	10,328	18.49
Westfield	5,032	18.49
Westford	9,678	16.12
Westhampton	6,256	20.49
Westminster	5,399	15.8
Weston	22,766	12.81
Westport	4,193	8.48
Westwood	12,438	14.83
Weymouth	5,352	11.46
Whately	4,991	13.71
Whitman	5,596	14.56
Wilbraham	7,119	20.49
Williamsburg	5,878	19.44
Williamstown	6,985	16.92
Wilmington	7,081	13.03
Winchendon	3,663	15.11
Winchester	15,813	12.51
Windsor	2,873	13.15
Winthrop	6,409	11.76
Woburn	5,160	9.34
Worcester	4,477	15.21
Worthington	4,374	16.04
Wrentham	7,177	13.67
Yarmouth	4,160	9.18