Medfield, Massachusetts
Fourteen square miles, no commuter rail station, and five schools that every child in town attends in sequence.
The town drinks
only what it pumps.
The town has no MWRA connection. Five town wells in two separate aquifers, the Charles River and the Neponset, supply the entire town through its own treatment plant. The wetlands bylaw states the reason in one line: ground water feeding town wells is the only source of Medfield water supply.
That single dependency is why the rules here are stricter than the state’s. Work within a hundred feet of a wetland needs a Conservation Commission permit, the inner fifty feet is a no-disturb area the state does not require, and a vernal pool counts whether or not the state has certified it.
Minimum lot area counts only contiguous dry upland, excluding wetlands, watershed and floodplain land, detention basins and any slope over twenty percent. A 20,000-square-foot lot with wetland across half of it is not a conforming lot.
Homes for sale in Medfield
Homes currently listed for sale in Medfield, from the MLS feed.
What the town gives you
No station, and a designation because of it
The nearest stations are Walpole and Norfolk on the Franklin and Foxboro line, Windsor Gardens and Norwood Central in Norwood, and Needham Junction. Because Medfield has no service but borders towns that do, the state classifies it an Adjacent Community under the MBTA Communities Act, which still required the town to zone 50 acres for a capacity of 750 multi-family units. Town Meeting adopted that district in May 2024.
Town water, and a house that may still be on septic
Medfield runs its own water and its own wastewater plant, but the sewer does not reach the whole town. 1,116 properties are billed for town water only, which means town water and a private septic system on the property.
Septic capacity sets the bedroom count. On those addresses an addition begins with a soil test, not a floor plan, and a new system may need to be in the budget before the design starts.
Five schools, and no attendance zones
Medfield runs a single town district, prekindergarten through grade twelve, and it is organized by grade rather than by neighborhood. Memorial takes prekindergarten and grade one, Wheelock grades two and three, Dale Street four and five, Blake six through eight, and Medfield High nine through twelve.
Every child in town attends all five, in order. Enrollment is 2,442 across the five schools.
Medfield State Hospital, 128 acres in the middle of town
The hospital closed in 2003 and the town bought 128 acres of it in 2014. Infrastructure construction began in the first quarter of 2026, the property closing is set for September 2026, and the approved plan is 334 rental apartments, a quarter of them affordable, alongside the Bellforge Arts Center. The town kept the Green, the Arboretum, North Field and the water tower parcel.
We do not only sell
Medfield houses.
Artemis is a boutique brokerage in Westwood that also advises on design and renovation. In Medfield the questions that decide a project are asked before anyone draws anything, what the septic will carry, how much of the lot is contiguous upland, and whether the Conservation Commission is in the conversation.
Where people look in Medfield
Medfield residents mostly do not use neighborhood names. Four parts of town do get named. How the six towns compare on rail, water and sewer is on one page.
Downtown
Where Route 109 and Route 27 meet. Town hall, the library, the market and the shops. Almost a fifth of the town lives within a ten-minute walk of it, and the denser housing runs out from there for about a mile and a half.
East Main Street
The Route 109 retail stretch running east, opposite Hatters Hill Road. A proposed local historic district covers part of it.
Noon Hill and Indian Hill
The southwest quadrant, against the conservation land. Noon Hill rises to 370 feet and connects across Causeway Street to the Shattuck Reservation.
Harding Street and Hospital Road
The State Hospital side of town, where the 334 apartments and the arts center are going in.
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