Deerfield

$5,846/year in property tax on the median home

At $13.45 per $1,000 of assessed value (fiscal 2026), including the 3% community-preservation surcharge. The tax rate year by year, with the bill history and every town in the county, is on its own page. The full worked figure, mortgage at this week's rate, heating, the lot, is on the cost page, and the calculator takes any price.

Most homes here heat with heating oil. A gas main serves at least part of the town. This week's prices and the season maths are on the heating page.

3,271 parcels; the median single-family home here was built in 1971, surviving stock, not construction history.2,292 housing units at the 2020 count (2,060 in 2000). 73.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied.

67.7% of homes here are single-family detached houses, and 30.3% of the housing stock predates 1940 while 3.7% went up in 2010 or later. Survey shares (2023), not counts.

7.4% of Homes Vacant at the Last Count

About 1 in 14 homes here stood empty at the April 2020 count, and 18.2% of those are seasonal or vacation homes.

≈45 sales a year

About 1 qualifying dwelling deed per 40 dwelling parcels is recorded in a year (2022–2024 average of recorded arm's-length deeds), at that pace, a property comes up roughly every 40 years. Steady-state arithmetic, not a measured wait, both counts cover dwelling property, and a deed can cover several parcels. The latest complete year's median sale: $427,500 (2024).

Estimated construction value in 2025: $1,212K (Census total including imputation, nominal dollars).

1 new home was permitted in 2025 (the latest fully-reported year). County-wide, house prices moved up 9.61% in 2025 (Franklin County index, a county figure, not this town's).

Schools Through Grade 12

Students here are covered from the early grades through high school by Deerfield (PK–06), Frontier (07–12).

Deerfield (PK–06) spends $23,199 per student; Frontier (07–12) spends $22,836 per student. That is total spending per pupil, an input the state publishes, not a rating or a ranking of the schools.

5 school buildings stand in town. Which building a child attends is set by the district, not by the address alone.

• Bement School · K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 · private
• Deerfield Academy · 09, 10, 11, 12 · private
• Deerfield Elementary School · PK, K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 · public elementary
• Eaglebrook School · 06, 07, 08, 09 · private
• Frontier Regional School · 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 · public secondary

Cable Internet: Comcast

Cable internet serves this town. Franchise areas can stop at village edges, so confirm service at the specific address, not the town line.

Public water exists here: EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL, PAN AM SOUTHERN RAILROAD, DEERFIELD FIRE DISTRICT and 1 more, service areas have edges, so a specific address may still be on a well. Municipal sewer exists (DEERFIELD SEWER DEPT, DEERFIELD SEWER DEPT); beyond its edge, homes are on septic. Bedrock well yield potential in town is rated "average specific yield".

Flood Map Unavailable

The federal flood map for this town has not been digitised, so flood risk here is unmapped; that is not the same as absent. Ask the town's building department before relying on any flood answer.

1 dam in town. 2 reported release sites appear in the state's cleanup registry. 5 facilities report to the EPA Toxics Release Inventory, industrial sites above federal reporting thresholds, absence of which is not proof of none. Address-level detail, this parcel, this street, is on the address check.

Solar in the State's Record. 203 solar installations here have been through the Commonwealth's incentive programmes, and the 200 of them with a published rating come to at least 12.0 MW. 85% are on houses. The register runs to 2023: the older programmes closed to new applications and their successor only opened in 2025, so a gap after that is the incentive record ending, not the installing. 4 more are approved but not yet generating. Capacity is what an array is rated at, never what it produced.

Radon Potential: Zone 2. The rock under this town is rated zone 2, the middle of the three the survey uses. The town sits across more than one geologic belt (Western Connecticut Valley Belt, Mesozoic Basins), so this is the highest potential found under any part of it, not an average. That is a rating of geology, not a reading from any building: houses above the action level turn up in every zone, and houses in zone 1 routinely test clean. Radon is invisible, a test kit is the only thing that answers the question for a particular house, and it is worth doing whatever this map says.

Facilities here reported 0 lbs of TRI-listed chemicals released to air, water and land in 2024, down from a peak of 49,191 lbs in 1989. The most-released over the years has been 1,1,1-trichloroethane. Self-reported by facilities above federal thresholds, a disclosure record, not a measure of anyone's exposure or risk.

22.9% of working residents work right here in town. The rest most often head to Greenfield, Northampton, Amherst. The town itself hosts 3,619 jobs.

Where people here work: living near Greenfield (252 already commute, 8 min), living near Sunderland (37 already commute, 14 min), living near Whately (64 already commute, 16 min), living near Bernardston (16 already commute, 20 min), living near Conway (15 already commute, 21 min), living near Montague (59 already commute, 24 min), living near Northampton (240 already commute, 26 min), living near Amherst (192 already commute, 30 min).

The average commute from here runs 17.4 minutes one way (working residents who leave home for work, 2023 5-year estimate). Walkability, where people live, scores 7.9 out of 20 on the EPA's index (below the national average).

PVTA and FRTA runs fixed-route buses here: 26 stops in town, on 2 routes. 31 · Northampton; 46 · Whately / S. Deerfield / UMass.

$1,866/Month: HUD's Two-Bedroom Standard

HUD's fair-rent standard for a two-bedroom here is $1,866 a month, the figure housing vouchers are built on for the Franklin County, MA, not what landlords ask. It assumes rent plus most utilities, so it is not comparable to an advertised rent that excludes heat.

24.8% of households here fall below 80% of the area's median family income, the federal housing-programme measure of need, not a poverty rate. 1.46% of the town's year-round homes count toward the state's subsidized-housing inventory (the state threshold where override rules change is 10%).

36.8% of renters here spend a third or more of their income on housing (18.2% spend half or more); for owners it is 25.3%. The federal "cost-burdened" line is 30% of income; these are 5-year survey estimates (2023), not a headcount.

Winters average 26.5°F, summers 68.7°F, and about 46″ of snow a year

Thirty-year normals (1991–2020), not this year's weather. The year averages 48°F with 49.39″ of precipitation. Readings come from the nearest long-record weather station to each measure, so a hilltown reading a valley station will see less snow here than falls on its own ridges.

Population is up 52.5% since 1960. Between 1971 and 1999, about 1,026 acres were developed. About 44.3% of adults here hold a bachelor's degree or higher (2023 survey). The deep story, the town's oldest surviving houses and what they're built in, is in the Old House Atlas.