Middleborough, MA
Tracking 9,845 properties across Middleborough, Massachusetts — a community where the median home dates to 1976 and the oldest to 1690. Every parcel mapped with building characteristics, environmental exposure, hazard risk, and ownership history assembled from 140+ sources.
Middleborough, MAInc. 1660
Middleborough is the largest town by area in Plymouth County — and one of the largest in Massachusetts — with a landscape that ranges from the dense village center near the Nemasket River to vast stretches of cranberry bogs, pine forests, and rural residential development. The town's size and diversity make it more complex than a typical suburban community.
For property professionals, Middleborough's scale creates meaningful internal variation. The village center has dense, older housing stock with commercial properties and multi-family buildings. The rural sections have large-lot single-family homes with private infrastructure. Cranberry bogs create agricultural parcels with specialized assessment considerations. The Nemasket River and numerous ponds bring flood zone and waterfront dynamics. Understanding which Middleborough a property sits in requires parcel-level data.
Risk Profile
FEMA flood zones, fire protection grades, radon — parcel by parcel
FEMA Flood Zones
412 properties (4%) are in FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas, where flood insurance is required for federally-backed mortgages.
Fire Protection Grades
Fire protection grades reflect proximity to fire stations and hydrant infrastructure. Grade affects insurance pricing in every New England state.
The Property Landscape
9,845 properties · Median year built 1976 · Avg 2,096 sf
Property Types
Construction by Era
Architectural Styles
Market Activity
Recorded transactions from Plymouth County Registry of Deeds
NE Provenance tracks recorded deeds, mortgages, and liens for 99% of Middleborough properties. Ownership intelligence includes transaction history, entity detection, portfolio identification, and lien analysis — assembled from public registry records into a single property-level profile.
Building Permits & Maintenance
16,826 municipal building permits on file · 51% of properties
NE Provenance tracks 16,826 building permits across 4,973 Middleborough properties — 51% coverage. 3,213 properties have permit activity in the last five years.
Each permit record reveals maintenance decisions: roof replacements, electrical upgrades, kitchen renovations, solar installations. For insurance, lending, and appraisal professionals, permit history is the most objective evidence of property condition available from public records.
Living in Middleborough
Plymouth County · Massachusetts
Middleborough covers 72.2 square miles in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The median assessed property value is $430K.
Single-family homes account for 6,093 of Middleborough's 9,845 properties and 1,015 multi-family buildings. There are 472 commercial properties and 1,207 parcels of vacant land. About 62% of properties are owner-occupied, and 3% are owned by someone out of state.
Assessed values range widely — the middle 50% of properties fall between $276K and $543K, with the highest assessed property at $55.9M. For professionals working in this market, the value spread tells you a lot about what you'll encounter door to door.
21% of properties are on municipal sewer, with the remainder on private septic systems, and 73% have public water service. Electric service is provided by TOWN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH - (MA). 247 properties have identified commercial activity — restaurants, retail, professional offices, and services that give Middleborough its character.
What Middleborough Property Intelligence Means for Professionals
Insurance & Underwriting
Middleborough's fire protection grade distribution (601 Grade A, 1,891 Grade B) directly affects premium calculation. Parcel-level hazard data provides the granularity that ZIP-level aggregation misses.
Insurance solutionsReal Estate & Appraisal
Middleborough's 10 property types, spanning construction from 1690 to present, require local market knowledge for accurate comparable selection and valuation. NEP assembles building characteristics, environmental exposure, and condition signals into a single property profile.
Real estate solutionsLending & Title
Collateral assessment requires flood zone verification, environmental screening, and ownership chain validation. 4% of Middleborough properties are in SFHAs where flood insurance is a federal lending requirement. NEP provides property-level compliance data from public records.
Lending solutionsInspection & Property Services
16,826 permits across 51% of properties means most Middleborough inspection assignments can start with documented renovation and system history, not a blank slate.
Inspection solutionsExplore Middleborough property intelligence.
9,845 Middleborough properties — each with risk profiles, building data, permit history, and ownership analysis from 140+ sources. Open any property and see the full picture.
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