Hull, MA Property Tax Rate: The Unconfirmed Number
Here's the honest version of this page: Hull's current property tax rate — the specific dollar figure per $1,000 of assessed value that every Massachusetts town sets each year — could not be confirmed from any source in the research behind this page. That's a genuinely different situation from this site's other South Shore, Massachusetts property-tax pages, where a specific rate was confirmed. Rather than guess, or quietly borrow a neighboring town's number, this page explains exactly what was checked, what came back, what the best available proxy data suggests, and precisely where a reader should go to get Hull's real, current rate before making any financial decision.
Proposition 2½: The Same Levy-Cap Mechanism, Whatever Hull's Rate Turns Out to Be
Every Massachusetts town's property tax rate, including Hull's, is governed by Proposition 2½, a 1980 ballot law. This site's Duxbury property-tax page already explains the mechanism in full detail, so the short version here: Prop 2½ does not set a statewide or town-specific rate directly. It caps the total dollar amount of property tax revenue — the levy — that a town can raise. A town's levy can never exceed 2.5% of its total assessed value, and from year to year the levy itself can grow by at most 2.5% plus revenue from new growth (newly built homes, additions, subdivisions), unless voters approve an override.
Under that system, the per-$1,000 rate isn't the input, it's the output: assessors take that year's allowed levy and divide it by the town's total assessed value to arrive at the rate. That mechanism applies to Hull exactly as it applies to Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, and Cohasset — the four other towns in this site's South Shore cluster. What's different about Hull is simply that this page cannot report what the resulting output number currently is.
What Was Actually Checked — and Why Hull's Rate Stayed Unconfirmed
This page's research made a direct, deliberate attempt to find Hull's current $/1,000 rate, and it's worth stating plainly what happened rather than glossing over it. A direct fetch of the Town of Hull Assessors' own tax-rate page (town.hull.ma.us/assessors) returned an error rather than the page's content. Separate direct fetches of two statewide comparison sources that have successfully supplied confirmed rates elsewhere in this site's research — massachusettsalmanac.com's Massachusetts Communities Tax Rate table and joeshimkus.com's own comparison table — each returned only surrounding page structure and other towns' example rate lines, not Hull's specific figure. In other words, this wasn't a single failed attempt; it was three independent attempts against three different sources, none of which surfaced the number.
That's a genuine, disclosed gap, not an oversight. This page will not fill it with a guess, and it will not carry forward a neighboring town's rate and imply it's Hull's own. If you've seen a specific dollar figure quoted for Hull elsewhere, treat it with real skepticism until you've confirmed it against a primary source — see the direct links below.
The Best Available Proxy: What Ownwell's Effective-Rate Data Suggests
Absent a confirmed nominal rate, the closest available substitute is Ownwell's effective-tax-rate data for Hull, which measures actual tax paid as a percentage of home value rather than a per-$1,000 assessed rate. Ownwell puts Hull's median effective property tax rate at 1.12%, against a median home value of $536,850 and a median annual tax bill of $6,012. Ownwell separately states a Massachusetts state median effective rate of 1.15% and a U.S. median of 1.02%.
Read carefully, that comparison suggests Hull's effective tax burden is likely somewhat below the Massachusetts state median — 1.12% versus 1.15% — while still running above the national median. But that's an inference drawn from effective-rate data, not a confirmed nominal $/1,000 rate, and the two aren't interchangeable. A town's effective rate blends its nominal rate together with how close its assessed values track actual market values, so a below-median effective rate doesn't tell you whether Hull's nominal per-$1,000 rate is itself low, average, or high relative to its neighbors. Treat 1.12% as a genuinely useful directional data point, not a stand-in for the number this page couldn't confirm.
For Context Only: What Hull's Cluster Neighbors' Confirmed Rates Look Like
It's useful to see what confirmed rates look like elsewhere in this site's South Shore cluster, purely as context for how these numbers typically run in this part of Massachusetts — none of the following figures are Hull's own rate, and none should be read as an estimate of it. Per massachusettsalmanac.com's Fiscal Year 2025 table, Cohasset's confirmed rate is $11.58 per $1,000, Duxbury's is $10.14, Scituate's is $9.99, and Marshfield's is $9.90. Those four towns' rates cluster in a fairly narrow band, roughly $9.90 to $11.58.
Whether Hull's own confirmed rate — once a reader tracks it down via the sources below — would land inside that same band, above it, or below it isn't something this page will speculate about. Hull's meaningfully lower median home value (Ownwell's $536,850, well below any of its four cluster neighbors' figures) means a comparable tax bill could coexist with either a similar rate applied to a smaller assessed base, or a genuinely different rate — Prop 2½'s levy-cap mechanism, described above, means either is plausible without more direct information.
What an Actual Tax Bill Looks Like, Using the Best Available Data
Using Ownwell's figures, a Hull property at the town's median assessed home value of $536,850 carries a median annual tax bill of roughly $6,012. That's the most concrete, sourced number this page can offer for what an actual Hull tax bill tends to look like today, and it's noticeably lower than the median bills documented on this site's other South Shore cluster pages — Cohasset's Ownwell-sourced median bill runs several times higher, reflecting that town's much higher home values.
Two other home-value data points are worth flagging rather than blending together: Zillow's own live tracked average home value (ZHVI) for Hull runs meaningfully higher than Ownwell's median, and Redfin's median sale price runs higher still, each reflecting a different measurement method (a market-value index versus a recent-transaction median versus an assessment-linked estimate) and a different data snapshot in time. None of these figures should be treated as interchangeable, and none of them substitutes for running the actual math against Hull's own confirmed current rate and a specific property's own assessed value once that rate is in hand.
Where to Get Hull's Actual Current Rate
Two direct paths exist for a reader who needs Hull's real, current $/1,000 rate rather than a proxy. The first is the Massachusetts Department of Revenue's Division of Local Services "Tax Rates by Class" database, a state-maintained, town-by-town, year-by-year dataset covering every city and town in Massachusetts, including Hull. The second is the Town of Hull Assessors' Office directly — either by phone or in person — which can confirm both the current fiscal year's rate and, ideally, the assessed value of a specific property under consideration.
Either path takes a few minutes and produces a number this page cannot responsibly provide. Given that Hull's own town website page for this exact information returned an error during this page's research, it may be worth trying the DLS database first, or calling the Assessors' Office directly if the town's own page is still unreliable when you check.
Before You Rely on Any of This, Verify It Directly
This page has one job it can't fully do: hand you Hull's confirmed current $/1,000 property tax rate. It couldn't be found via a direct fetch of the Town of Hull Assessors' own page, nor via two separate statewide comparison tables that have supplied confirmed figures for other towns in this site's cluster. What this page can responsibly offer instead is Ownwell's effective-rate data (1.12%, versus 1.15% Massachusetts and 1.02% U.S. medians), a median home value and tax bill drawn from that same source, and honestly-labeled context from neighboring towns' own confirmed rates — never presented as Hull's own number.
Massachusetts tax rates and assessed values move on an annual cycle, and a town's fall classification-hearing process can shift the following fiscal year's rate in either direction. Anyone budgeting for a Hull purchase should confirm the current rate directly with the Massachusetts DLS "Tax Rates by Class" database or the Town of Hull Assessors' Office, and should consult a Massachusetts-licensed tax professional or real estate attorney before making a purchase decision based on property tax exposure.
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Get a Free Agent Referral →Independent research. No ads. No sponsored listings. This page's central, disclosed gap: Hull's current property tax rate ($ per $1,000 of assessed value) could not be confirmed from any source checked in this research pass. Three separate direct-fetch attempts were made and each came back empty of the specific figure — the Town of Hull Assessors' own tax-rate page (town.hull.ma.us/assessors), which returned an error rather than page content; massachusettsalmanac.com's Massachusetts Communities Tax Rate comparison table, which returned surrounding page structure and other towns' rate lines but not Hull's own; and joeshimkus.com's comparable statewide table, which returned the same kind of incomplete result. Rather than estimate a figure or carry forward a neighboring town's rate, this page uses Ownwell's Hull trends data as the best available proxy (median effective tax rate 1.12%, median home value $536,850, median annual tax bill $6,012, versus Ownwell's stated Massachusetts median effective rate of 1.15% and U.S. median of 1.02%) and states clearly that an effective rate is not the same measurement as a confirmed nominal $/1,000 rate. The four cluster-neighbor rates cited for context — Cohasset $11.58, Duxbury $10.14, Scituate $9.99, and Marshfield $9.90, all FY2025, per massachusettsalmanac.com — are each that town's own confirmed rate, not an estimate of Hull's. The Proposition 2½ levy-cap mechanism described here — a 1980 Massachusetts ballot law capping total levy growth at 2.5% per year plus new-growth revenue, absent a voter-approved override, rather than a directly set statewide or flat rate — reflects the same mechanism documented in this site's Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, and Cohasset, MA property tax pages, and applies to Hull regardless of what its specific current rate turns out to be. Readers needing Hull's actual current rate should consult the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services "Tax Rates by Class" database, or contact the Town of Hull Assessors' Office directly. Nothing here is tax or legal advice; consult a Massachusetts-licensed tax professional or real estate attorney, and Hull's own Assessors' Office, before making a purchase decision based on property tax exposure.