Dennis
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Outdoors in Dennis
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c. 1930
Ezra Baker School, Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass (86613), c. 1930
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About Dennis
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesDennis is a town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. It is a seaside resort town with colonial mansions along the northern Cape Cod Bay coastline and beaches along the southern Nantucket Sound. As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,674. The town encompasses five villages, each with its own post office: Dennis (including North Dennis), Dennis Port, East Dennis, South Dennis, and West Dennis.
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How Dennis ranks
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Housing in Dennis
The typical Dennis home is worth about $679,000, up 3.4% in a year, close to the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Dennis
Safety Grade B-
Dennis reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 51% report less.
Schools in Dennis
All Dennis schools →School Grade C+
The public schools Dennis’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 64% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within MA. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Dennis is
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