Nantucket Neighborhoods
How to choose a Nantucket neighborhood
Nantucket is 14 miles long and three and a half wide, and yet its neighborhoods behave like different markets. Town trades on walkability and history; the median in-town sale looks nothing like a harborfront estate in Polpis or a surf shack lot in Madaket. Before you shop listings, decide what the island is for in your life: a walk-to-dinner base, a family beach summer, a boating harbor, a year-round home, or a legacy retreat with land around it.
The practical variables are fewer than most buyers expect: drive time to Town and the airport, distance to a swimmable beach versus harbor water, lot size and privacy, exposure to wind and flood zones, and how a neighborhood feels in February — not just July. Every guide below covers those, plus current market dynamics and the details only a sixth-generation Nantucketer would flag, from Historic District Commission boundaries to Title 5 septic realities.
Each neighborhood page links to its live listings, pulled directly from the island's MLS and refreshed throughout the day. New to the island entirely? Start with the guide to living on Nantucket year-round. When you're ready to compare in person, call Sean — a lot of the best matches never reach the public market at all.
Every district on the island
Town & Harborside
North Shore
Polpis Road & East
South Shore
West Side
Mid Island & Villages
Where this year's home sales actually landed, district by district
The cards above tell you what each district is like. This is what it traded for. Every Nantucket home sale recorded from January 1 through September 2026 — 184 of them — sorted by where it closed, so you can see which districts move in volume and which trade a handful of times a year at the top of the market.
| District | 2026 home sales | Median sale | Low – high | Sold vs. asking | Drive to Town |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | 47 | $4,200,000 | $1.25M – $9.95M | 95.6% | 4 min |
| Mid Island | 17 | $1,750,000 | $800K – $5.25M | 92.3% | 8 min |
| Tom Nevers | 16 | $3,075,000 | $1.93M – $9.75M | 95.7% | 16 min |
| Madaket | 14 | $2,637,500 | $695K – $4.50M | 91.8% | 18 min |
| Surfside | 13 | $4,500,000 | $2.82M – $14.75M | 94.9% | 15 min |
| Sconset | 11 | $4,025,000 | $1.10M – $9.20M | 93.2% | 17 min |
| Miacomet | 11 | $2,920,000 | $1.60M – $4.40M | 98.1% | 11 min |
| Cliff | 9 | $5,600,000 | $3.90M – $13.55M | 94.9% | 8 min |
| West of Town | 8 | $3,047,500 | $1.60M – $5.92M | 100.4% | 7 min |
| Hummock Pond | 5 | $5,400,000 | $2.50M – $12M | 94.7% | 16 min |
| Monomoy | 4 | $13,625,000 | $1.62M – $19.50M | 98.5% | 10 min |
| Cisco | 4 | $6,950,000 | $4.15M – $8M | 78.1% | 18 min |
| Brant Point | 4 | $5,722,500 | $2.60M – $25M | 92.0% | 6 min |
| Nashaquisset | 3 | $2,600,000 | $2.50M – $2.80M | 98.9% | 8 min |
| Naushop | 3 | $2,325,000 | $1.80M – $2.33M | 96.6% | 12 min |
| Quidnet | 2 | $7,375,000 | $6.25M – $8.50M | 94.5% | 17 min |
| Middle Moors | 2 | $4,325,000 | $2.80M – $5.85M | 94.0% | 17 min |
| South of Town | 2 | $3,051,004 | $2.90M – $3.20M | 100.1% | 7 min |
| Sandpiper | 2 | $2,667,500 | $2.54M – $2.80M | 100.3% | 9 min |
| Pocomo | 1 | $16,800,000 (one sale) | — | 93.3% | 22 min |
| Shawkemo | 1 | $10,000,000 (one sale) | — | 77.2% | 16 min |
| Polpis | 1 | $7,675,000 (one sale) | — | 90.3% | 11 min |
| Dionis | 1 | $5,550,000 (one sale) | — | 86.8% | 11 min |
| Shimmo | 1 | $4,795,000 (one sale) | — | 87.3% | 12 min |
| Madequecham | 1 | $4,322,500 (one sale) | — | 94.1% | 16 min |
| Wauwinet | 1 | $3,800,594 (one sale) | — | 86.4% | 21 min |
Source: LINK Nantucket Sales History, January–September 2026 (every recorded closing, one row per sale), matched to the district each sale was filed under. Homes are counted the way LINK's Sales History counts them — houses, condos and multi-family — the same 184 sales behind the $3.70M year-to-date median on the market report. Sold vs. asking covers the sales that were publicly listed: 43 of the 184 show no marketing period in LINK and an asking price equal to the sale price, which is how a private sale enters the record, and they are left out of that column. Drive times are typical daytime minutes to Main Street. Machine-readable copy: market-report-districts.json.
No home sale recorded yet in 2026: Airport Area, Beach Plum, Eel Point, Fishers Landing, Quaise, Squam. Small districts can go a year without a closing; the guide pages carry their live listings.