Southwick

$5,048/year in property tax on the median home

At $14.42 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.

4,536 parcels; the median single-family home here was built in 1970, surviving stock, not construction history.4,115 housing units at the 2020 count (3,533 in 2000). 67.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied.

74.9% of homes here are single-family detached houses, and 10.2% of the housing stock predates 1940 while 2.4% went up in 2010 or later. Survey shares (2023), not counts.

7% of Homes Vacant at the Last Count

About 1 in 14 homes here stood empty at the April 2020 count, and 26.6% of those are seasonal or vacation homes.

≈112 sales a year

About 1 in 40 properties here changes hands 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, and the count includes land and commercial parcels. The latest complete year's median sale: $375,000 (2024).

Reported construction value in 2025: $4,556K (permit filings, nominal dollars).

17 new homes were permitted in 2025 (the Bureau's estimate; the town filed no monthly reports that year). County-wide, house prices moved up 5.27% in 2025 (Hampden 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 Southwick-Tolland-Granville (PK–12).

The district spends $20,753 per student. That is total spending per pupil, an input the state publishes, not a rating or a ranking of the schools.

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

• Powder Mill School · 03, 04, 05, 06 · public elementary
• Southwick Regional High School · 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 · public secondary
• Woodland Elementary School · PK, K, 01, 02 · public elementary

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: SOUTHWICK WATER DEPT, service areas have edges, so a specific address may still be on a well. Municipal sewer exists (SOUTHWICK SEWER); beyond its edge, homes are on septic. Bedrock well yield potential in town is rated "average specific yield".

Mapped Flood Zones Present

Parts of this town are inside mapped special flood hazard areas, where flood insurance is required for most mortgages and building is regulated. Whether a specific property is inside one is a parcel-level question, check the address, not the town.

13 dams in town. No sites appear in the state's cleanup registry for this town, a registry fact, not a clean bill of health. 1 facility reports 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.

Facilities here reported 0 lbs of TRI-listed chemicals released to air, water and land in 2003, down from a peak of 3,277 lbs in 2000. The most-released over the years has been trichloroethylene. Self-reported by facilities above federal thresholds, a disclosure record, not a measure of anyone's exposure or risk.

14.9% of working residents work right here in town. The rest most often head to Springfield, Westfield, Agawam. The town itself hosts 2,125 jobs.

Where people here work: living near Westfield (519 already commute, 13 min), living near Granville (8 already commute, 13 min), living near Agawam (305 already commute, 18 min), living near West Springfield (236 already commute, 20 min), living near Russell (8 already commute, 20 min), living near Springfield (663 already commute, 22 min), living near Hartford, CT (40 min).

The average commute from here runs 27 minutes one way (working residents who leave home for work, 2023 5-year estimate). Walkability, where people live, scores 6.5 out of 20 on the EPA's index (below the national average).

PVTA runs fixed-route buses here: 7 stops in town, on one route. G47 · Northampton-Westfield-Southwick.

$1,734/Month: HUD's Two-Bedroom Standard

HUD's fair-rent standard for a two-bedroom here is $1,734 a month, the figure housing vouchers are built on for the Springfield, MA MSA, not what landlords ask. It assumes rent plus most utilities, so it is not comparable to an advertised rent that excludes heat.

32.9% of households here fall below 80% of the area's median family income, the federal housing-programme measure of need, not a poverty rate. 3.49% of the town's year-round homes count toward the state's subsidized-housing inventory (the state threshold where override rules change is 10%).

53.4% of renters here spend a third or more of their income on housing (19.6% spend half or more); for owners it is 22.5%. The federal "cost-burdened" line is 30% of income; these are 5-year survey estimates (2023), not a headcount.

Winters average 27.1°F, summers 69.9°F, and about 52″ of snow a year

Thirty-year normals (1991–2020), not this year's weather. The year averages 48.7°F with 52.36″ 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 79.6% since 1960. Between 1971 and 1999, about 1,887 acres were developed. About 35.9% 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.