Amherst Property Tax
Amherst charges $16.91 per $1,000 of assessed value for fiscal 2026. On the town's median single-family home, assessed at $537,100, that is about $9,304 a year. Rates are set by the town and certified to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
The Rate, Year by Year
A rate is not a bill: it moves when the town's total assessed value moves, so a falling rate can sit alongside a rising bill. Both charts are below for that reason.
Amherst Residential Tax Rate
$16.91Fiscal 2026, per $1,000 of assessed value. Hover to read any year.
Since fiscal 2003 the rate has run between $15.06 and $21.83, peaking in fiscal 2017. Across Hampshire County the middle rate is $14.77.
The rate is 23% lower than at that peak. The bill on an average single-family home is not: it went from $7,305 to $9,957, a rise of 36%, and it rose in 9 of those 9 years. A rate is what you are charged per $1,000 of value, and the value moved too.
The Rate on Every Class, Fiscal 2026
Massachusetts certifies a rate for each class of property, not one rate for the town. Amherst charges every class the same, so the residential rate above is the whole story.
All classes: $16.91 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Amherst classifies no land as open space, so there is no separate open-space rate: open land is taxed at whichever class it falls in. A class with no rate here is one the town does not use, which is not the same as a rate of zero.
The Bill on an Average Home
Amherst Tax on an Average Single-Family Home
$9,957Fiscal 2026. Hover to read any year.
This series uses the town's AVERAGE single-family value as reported to the Division of Local Services, which is a different figure from the median assessment above. Averages sit above medians wherever a few expensive properties pull them up.
What Else Is on the Bill
- Split rate: Amherst applies a single rate to all classes of property, so businesses and homes pay the same rate per $1,000.
- Community Preservation surcharge: Adopted at 3%, with the first $100,000 of value exempt. On the median home that adds about $222 a year, already included in the figure above.
- What the rate does not tell you: the assessment is the town's number, not the market's. A house that sells for more than its assessment is taxed on the assessment until the town revalues.
For a specific price rather than the town median, the tax calculator runs it for any figure in any of the 101 towns. For a specific property, check the address and the assessment on file is the one the bill is computed from.
Hampshire County Tax Rates, Fiscal 2026
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Every town in the county with its certified residential rate, its median single-family assessment, and the annual tax that combination produces. Sortable by any column; sort order is yours and implies no ranking.
| Town | Residential Rate | Median Assessment | Tax on That Home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst | $16.91 | $537,100 | $9,304 |
| Belchertown | $15.13 | $418,200 | $6,400 |
| Chesterfield | $15.26 | $360,500 | $5,501 |
| Cummington | $12.49 | $330,000 | $4,122 |
| Easthampton | $13.29 | $394,100 | $5,355 |
| Goshen | $13.50 | $338,000 | $4,700 |
| Granby | $14.85 | $382,300 | $5,677 |
| Hadley | $11.46 | $458,800 | $5,381 |
| Hatfield | $14.67 | $416,900 | $6,255 |
| Huntington | $14.77 | $298,300 | $4,406 |
| Middlefield | $16.88 | $234,550 | $3,959 |
| Northampton | $13.67 | $504,350 | $7,060 |
| Pelham | $18.79 | $292,700 | $5,608 |
| Plainfield | $17.56 | $244,850 | $4,300 |
| South Hadley | $13.52 | $366,500 | $4,955 |
| Southampton | $13.11 | $448,400 | $6,016 |
| Ware | $14.49 | $289,600 | $4,196 |
| Westhampton | $20.35 | $305,700 | $6,221 |
| Williamsburg | $16.01 | $393,700 | $6,303 |
| Worthington | $13.93 | $350,300 | $4,880 |
The line under each Residential Rate is its margin from this table's middle of $14.72: left of centre is below it, right of centre is above, and both sides are drawn to the same scale. The middle is this table's own and does not move when you sort. It is a distance, not a position in a league table, and nothing here is ranked.
What These Columns Mean
- Town
- Towns in the same county, for comparison on a like basis.
- Residential Rate
- Dollars of tax per $1,000 of assessed value, fiscal 2026, as certified to the Division of Local Services.
- Median Assessment
- The town's median single-family assessed value, from its own roll.
- Tax on That Home
- The rate applied to that median assessment. An illustration of a typical bill, not any particular property's bill.
Cite: RE413. “Hampshire County Tax Rates, Fiscal 2026.” Updated September 19, 2026. https://www.re413.com/towns/amherst-ma/property-tax/, underlying sources at https://www.re413.com/sources/.
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Sources
- Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services. Amherst's certified residential tax rate and the average single-family bill, by fiscal year. Figures through FY2026 certifications.
- MassGIS standardized assessors' parcels. The median single-family assessed value the bill illustration is computed on.
- Community Preservation Coalition. Whether the town has adopted the surcharge, at what percentage, and with what exemption.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.