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Duxbury

A town of 16,185 people in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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About Duxbury

Town in Massachusetts, United States
1624Established
16,090Population
37.6 sq miArea
36 ftElevation

Duxbury (alternative older spellings: "Duxborough" and "Duxboro") is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately 35 miles (56 km) to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 2020 census. The town contains the census-designated places (CDPs) of Duxbury, Green Harbor, and South Duxbury.

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Housing in Duxbury

$1.12M▲ 5.4% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

The typical Duxbury home is worth about $1,122,000, up 5.4% in a year, 69% above the Massachusetts typical home.

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Buyer’sBalancedSeller’s
Days on market22
Sale-to-list99.8%
Sold in May19
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Safety Grade A

Duxbury reports less crime per resident than 88% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.

Violent crime per 1,000
Duxbury 1
Massachusetts 3
U.S. 3.3
Property crime per 1,000
Duxbury 3
Massachusetts 10.4
U.S. 15.5
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School Grade A

The public schools Duxbury’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 88% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.

#32Best public schoolsof 282 in MA
DistrictDuxburySchools5

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