Cost of Living & Housing in Duxbury
Duxbury's cost of living pairs very high South Shore harbor-town home values with a genuinely moderate effective property tax rate for Massachusetts.
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Learn moreVery high, and still rising, home values
Duxbury's 2026 average home value ran $1,131,969 per Zillow (up 5.1% year-over-year) -- genuinely, substantially above both the Massachusetts statewide average ($667,265, per massachusetts.js) and the national median (base record).
A real, disclosed spread in effective property tax rate figures
Sources reviewed this pass cite Duxbury's effective property tax rate at 1.01%, 1.07%, and 1.14% -- a real, disclosed spread this record does not resolve to one falsely precise number, but which lands at or below the Massachusetts statewide median (1.15%) despite Duxbury's very high home values (base record).
A rate-vs-bill dynamic shared with the state hub
Duxbury's comparatively moderate effective rate against very high home values mirrors the same rate-vs-bill dynamic massachusetts.js discloses statewide -- a moderate rate does not automatically mean a small dollar bill when home values run this high (base record).
Massachusetts's statewide tax structure applies on top
Duxbury's local property tax sits on top of Massachusetts's statewide flat 5% income tax (with a 4% surtax above $1,107,750) and single 6.25% sales tax, per massachusetts.js.
Key takeaways
- Duxbury's 2026 average home value ($1,131,969) runs well above both the Massachusetts statewide and national medians.
- Duxbury's effective property tax rate carries a real, disclosed 1.01%-1.14% spread across sources, at or below the Massachusetts median.
- Duxbury's moderate rate against very high home values mirrors the rate-vs-bill dynamic Massachusetts discloses statewide.
- Massachusetts's statewide flat 5% income tax and 6.25% sales tax apply on top of Duxbury's own local property tax rate.
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