Salisbury Beach Homes For Sale

Salisbury Beach is a village inside the Town of Salisbury, in Essex County. It is not a separate town, and it is not its own census-designated place, so it does not have a population count of its own. The Census place named Salisbury counted 5,629 people in 2020; that figure covers a statistical area inside the town, not the beach alone. The town itself counted 9,236. Street addresses at the beach use ZIP code 01952, the same ZIP as the rest of Salisbury. The town's other named places — Salisbury Square, Salisbury Plains, and Ring's Island — sit inland or on the Merrimack. The beach is the barrier spit: the Great Marsh to the west, the Merrimack River at the south end, the Atlantic to the east, and Seabrook, New Hampshire, at the north end. Massachusetts Route 1A comes east from the town center on Beach Road and turns north along the shore to meet New Hampshire Route 1A. Interstate 95 Exit 60 and Route 286 are the highway access to the beaches.

Beach Road was built across the Great Marsh in 1866, and the shore became a summer resort. A Charles I. D. Looff carousel, the Flying Horses, was installed in 1914. Pirate's Fun Park, the last small amusement park, closed in 2004 and was replaced with condominiums. The town's open space plan still describes the beach as dense residential and commercial development wrapped by salt marsh, and it still calls the commercial core the Beach Center, along Broadway. In 2022 the town started replacing temporary placemaking on the Broadway Mall with a permanent streetscape; design drawings were finished in 2023–2024. North of Beach Road, North End Boulevard is the oceanfront residential stretch toward the state line. South of the center, Salisbury Beach State Reservation holds the public beach and the campground. DCR's September 2008 barrier-beach plan describes a 521-acre reservation, 3.8 miles of ocean beach from the Merrimack to the New Hampshire border, about a mile of river beach, 484 campsites on the west side, and two boat ramps. The town's later open space inventory lists the reservation at about 520 acres and calls it the Commonwealth's busiest state park, with over one million visitors a year. The reservation's published address is State Reservation Road.

Sale prices published for 01952 are ZIP prices, not a beach-only median. Redfin's page for 01952, covering the three months ending October 2026, reports a median sale price of $652,000, up 1.1 percent from the same period a year earlier. The median sale price per square foot was $366, down 26.3 percent. Homes sold after 40 days on the market on average, compared with 33 days the year before, and 41 homes sold in October 2026. A Broadway condo and a house on North End Boulevard do not share that median. The listings block on this page is the live search for Salisbury Beach. Beach addresses are taxed by the Town of Salisbury. The town's FY2025 tax-rate sheet — the rate document posted on the town site, with a status date of December 4, 2024 — shows a single rate of $10.08 per $1,000 for residential, commercial, industrial, and personal property. The assessor's office is at Town Hall, 5 Beach Road. Confirm the bill for the current fiscal year before you compare two houses.