The Commonwealth has published a new housing tracker on the Mass.gov website that shows progress in increasing housing statewide, by region, and by municipality. Massachusetts aims to add 222,000 new homes between 2025 – 2035 to meet demand and boost affordability.
You can view the numbers for Wellesley on their own or within the context of the overall state or compared to nearby cities and towns.
Based on the most recent Census data, Wellesley added 75 homes last year, a 0.77% increase over the previous year. That gave Wellesley 9,776 residential addresses vs. 9,701 in 2024.
Compared to surrounding communities, Wellesley added a higher number of homes than Dover, Needham, and Weston, but less than Natick and Newton.
Looking at net increase percentage of housing stock, Wellesley had the higher figure than any surrounding community. Some of these neighboring communiteis have way more houses than Wellesley, while Dover and Weston have far less.
A handful of multi-family housing projects are in the works in Wellesley, but it appears unlikely that most of them will add new units to the town’s housing stock this year.
There are any number of ways to track housing progress, and the state’s new tracker is just one of them.
From the Mass.gov housing tracker page:
