Cost of living in Essex County
Simple answer
We don't have one fair-market rent for this county.
HUD did not give us a single county rent we can stand behind.
This county is in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 108.3 (U.S. = 100).
SNAP income limit in Massachusetts · Medicaid eligibility
Towns in this county
- Lynn · 101,709 people
- Lawrence · 88,736 people
- Haverhill · 67,698 people
- Peabody · 54,695 people
- Methuen · 53,475 people
- Salem · 44,795 people
- Beverly · 42,665 people
- Gloucester · 30,075 people
- Saugus · 28,773 people
- Danvers · 28,098 people
- Newburyport · 18,652 people
- Amesbury · 17,403 people
- Swampscott · 15,277 people
- Lynnfield · 13,064 people
- Andover · 9,451 people
- Salisbury · 5,656 people
- Ipswich · 4,924 people
- Rockport · 4,704 people
- Topsfield · 2,624 people
- Boxford · 2,284 people
- Rowley · 1,708 people
- Essex · 1,688 people