Living in Lakeville, MA

Overview

About Lakeville

Lakeville is the value play in our corner of Plymouth County, and the numbers back it up. Zillow puts the typical Lakeville home value at $573,163, up about 1.4% over the past year, while Redfin shows a median sale price of $554,618 as of May 2026, with homes averaging around 24 days on market and selling at 100.4% of list price. What separates Lakeville from every neighbor is the tax bill: the FY2026 residential rate is $9.74 per $1,000 — the lowest of any town we cover. Next-door Middleborough sits at $13.12 and Halifax at $14.08, so on a $575,000 home you are paying roughly $1,900 a year less here than across the town line. Buyers who assume they have to trade down to keep carrying costs manageable often find Lakeville does the work for them.

The town's name is literal. Lakeville wraps around the Assawompset Pond Complex — Assawompset, Long, Pocksha, and the Quittacas ponds — the largest natural pond system in Massachusetts, with Assawompset and Long Pond ranking as the state's two biggest natural water bodies. Because the complex supplies drinking water to roughly 250,000 people in New Bedford and Taunton, much of the shoreline is permanently protected, which keeps the views open and the water clean; Long Pond is where you will find the residential lakefront, from seasonal-turned-year-round cottages to newer waterfront builds. Ted Williams Camp on Precinct Street — where the Red Sox legend ran his baseball camp from 1958 to 1986 — is now a town-owned park with ballfields, courts, a function hall, and a boat launch onto Long Pond. LeBaron Hills Country Club adds 18 holes off Rhode Island Road.

Schools run through the Freetown-Lakeville Regional district. Apponequet Regional High enrolls about 640 students at an 11-to-1 student-teacher ratio, ranks in the top 20% of Massachusetts high schools for combined math and reading proficiency per Public School Review, and Niche places it ninth among Plymouth County public high schools. The commute picture changed in March 2025: when South Coast Rail launched, regular service moved from the old Middleborough/Lakeville stop to the new Middleborough station at 52 West Grove Street, just over the Lakeville line, with 500 parking spaces and 32 direct weekday trips to and from South Station on the Fall River/New Bedford Line (Zone 8, $12.25 one-way). The original Lakeville station still hosts the seasonal CapeFLYER, so summer trains to Cape Cod leave from town. Middleborough got the downtown; Lakeville kept the water, the land, and the tax rate.