Home prices in Norwood run 62% above the national median: $680,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $128,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 5.3x.
Norwood's 1% property tax rate runs below the 1.1% national average. That's $567/month on the median home here, not a rounding error against the mortgage payment.
Massachusetts levies a state income tax on top of the $4,394/month this mortgage runs. Model your real after-tax take-home before deciding how much payment you can carry.
Norwood's cost of living index is 155, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Norwood's median home price runs 9% lower than nearby Boston: $750,000 there versus $680,000 here.