Massachusetts
A household of four is measured against a 2026 poverty guideline of $33,000. Massachusetts has adopted Medicaid expansion, so the adult income screen is 138 percent of poverty. The 2024 all-items state price parity is 105.8.
- Sales tax
- 6.3%
- Wage income tax
- Yes
- Property tax
- 1.00%
Benefit pages
Each program has its own page for Massachusetts. The label is the illustrative household of four at $48,000.
- SNAP eligibility · unlikely
- Medicaid and CHIP eligibility · maybe
- WIC eligibility · likely
- School meals eligibility · likely
- LIHEAP eligibility · maybe
- Earned Income Tax Credit eligibility · likely
- Child Tax Credit eligibility · likely
- Marketplace subsidies eligibility · likely
- Lifeline eligibility · unlikely
- SSI eligibility · unlikely
- State programs eligibility · maybe
Counties
- Barnstable County · 2-bed $2,488
- Berkshire County
- Bristol County
- Dukes County · 2-bed $2,010
- Essex County
- Franklin County · 2-bed $1,882
- Hampden County · 2-bed $1,800
- Hampshire County · 2-bed $2,034
- Middlesex County
- Nantucket County · 2-bed $3,583
- Norfolk County
- Plymouth County
- Suffolk County · 2-bed $3,008
- Worcester County
Towns
223 places in Massachusetts have a cost page and a benefits page.
- Boston · benefits
- Worcester · benefits
- Springfield · benefits
- Cambridge · benefits
- Lowell · benefits
- Brockton · benefits
- Quincy · benefits
- Lynn · benefits
- New Bedford · benefits
- Fall River · benefits
- Newton · benefits
- Lawrence · benefits
- Somerville · benefits
- Framingham · benefits
- Haverhill · benefits
- Malden · benefits
- Waltham · benefits
- Brookline · benefits
- Taunton · benefits
- Revere · benefits
- Medford · benefits
- Weymouth Town · benefits
- Chicopee · benefits
- Peabody · benefits
- Methuen · benefits
- Everett · benefits
- Barnstable Town · benefits
- Attleboro · benefits
- Arlington · benefits
- Salem · benefits
- Leominster · benefits
- Pittsfield · benefits
- Beverly · benefits
- Woburn · benefits
- Fitchburg · benefits
- Marlborough · benefits
- Westfield · benefits
- Chelsea · benefits
- Braintree Town · benefits
- Amherst Town · benefits
- Holyoke · benefits
- Watertown · benefits
- Randolph Town · benefits
- Lexington · benefits
- Franklin Town · benefits
- Needham · benefits
- Norwood · benefits
- North Attleborough Town · benefits
- Northampton · benefits
- Wellesley · benefits
- Gloucester · benefits
- Melrose · benefits
- Saugus · benefits
- West Springfield Town · benefits
- Milton · benefits
- Agawam Town · benefits
- Bridgewater Town · benefits
- Danvers · benefits
- Wakefield · benefits
- Milford · benefits
- Belmont · benefits
- Burlington · benefits
- Reading · benefits
- Dedham · benefits
- Winchester · benefits
- Stoneham · benefits
- Wilmington · benefits
- Gardner · benefits
- Marblehead · benefits
- Winthrop Town · benefits
- Newburyport · benefits
- Somerset · benefits
- Southbridge Town · benefits
- Greenfield · benefits
- Amesbury · benefits
- Abington · benefits
- Easthampton · benefits
- Hudson · benefits
- Longmeadow · benefits
- Swampscott · benefits
- Lynnfield · benefits
- North Adams · benefits
- Palmer Town · benefits
- Webster · benefits
- South Yarmouth · benefits
- Holbrook · benefits
- Maynard · benefits
- Hull · benefits
- Nantucket · benefits
- Andover · benefits
- Athol · benefits
- Middleborough Center · benefits
- Plymouth · benefits
- Clinton · benefits
- Mansfield Center · benefits
- Whitinsville · benefits
- Medfield · benefits
- Pinehurst · benefits
- North Scituate · benefits
- Cochituate · benefits
- Walpole · benefits
- Northborough · benefits
- Ware · benefits
- Foxborough · benefits
- East Falmouth · benefits
- Sharon · benefits
- West Yarmouth · benefits
- Yarmouth Port · benefits
- Kingston · benefits
- West Concord · benefits
- Scituate · benefits
- Oxford · benefits
- Spencer · benefits
- Salisbury · benefits
- East Harwich · benefits
- Adams · benefits
- Bliss Corner · benefits
- Bellingham · benefits
- North Westport · benefits
- The Pinehills · benefits
- Marshfield · benefits
- Hingham · benefits
- Williamstown · benefits
- Ipswich · benefits
- Raynham Center · benefits
- Rockport · benefits
- Westborough · benefits
- Smith Mills · benefits
- Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock · benefits
- Millis-Clicquot · benefits
- Hopedale · benefits
- North Plymouth · benefits
- Winchendon · benefits
- Turners Falls · benefits
- Sagamore · benefits
- Falmouth · benefits
- Northwest Harwich · benefits
- East Sandwich · benefits
- Forestdale · benefits
- Orange · benefits
- Dennis Port · benefits
- Wilbraham · benefits
- Wareham Center · benefits
- North Lakeville · benefits
- Ocean Grove · benefits
- Provincetown · benefits
- Hopkinton · benefits
- North Pembroke · benefits
- Nahant · benefits
- Littleton Common · benefits
- Monument Beach · benefits
- South Duxbury · benefits
- Upton · benefits
- South Dennis · benefits
- Ayer · benefits
- East Dennis · benefits
- Cordaville · benefits
- East Douglas · benefits
- North Seekonk · benefits
- Buzzards Bay · benefits
- Sandwich · benefits
- North Falmouth · benefits
- Acushnet Center · benefits
- Mattapoisett Center · benefits
- Norton Center · benefits
- North Brookfield · benefits
- Topsfield · benefits
- West Dennis · benefits
- Baldwinville · benefits
- Vineyard Haven · benefits
- Sturbridge · benefits
- Dennis · benefits
- Belchertown · benefits
- Great Barrington · benefits
- Fiskdale · benefits
- Dover · benefits
- Boxford · benefits
- West Wareham · benefits
- Pocasset · benefits
- Harwich Port · benefits
- South Lancaster · benefits
- Hanscom AFB · benefits
- North Eastham · benefits
- Lunenburg · benefits
- Rutland · benefits
- Brewster · benefits
- Duxbury · benefits
- Marshfield Hills · benefits
- Pepperell · benefits
- East Pepperell · benefits
- Hanson · benefits
- South Deerfield · benefits
- Lenox · benefits
- Shelburne Falls · benefits
- Bourne · benefits
- Harwich Center · benefits
- Teaticket · benefits
- Cedar Crest · benefits
- Devens · benefits
- Rowley · benefits
- Essex · benefits
- White Island Shores · benefits
- Monson Center · benefits
- Chatham · benefits
- West Brookfield · benefits
- Lee · benefits
- South Ashburnham · benefits
- Orleans · benefits
- Weweantic · benefits
- Hatfield · benefits
- East Brookfield · benefits
- Warren · benefits
- Onset · benefits
- Marion Center · benefits
- West Falmouth · benefits
- Green Harbor · benefits
- Holland · benefits
- West Chatham · benefits
- Groton · benefits
- Oak Bluffs · benefits
- Granby · benefits
- Shirley · benefits
- Housatonic · benefits
Metros in this ranking
- Boston · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- Providence · Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
- Worcester · Worcester, MA