Georgetown
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Outdoors in Georgetown
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About Georgetown
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesGeorgetown is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,470 at the 2020 census. It was incorporated in 1838 from part of Rowley.
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How Georgetown ranks
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Housing in Georgetown
The typical Georgetown home is worth about $779,000, up 4% in a year, 18% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Georgetown
Safety Grade A
Georgetown reports less crime per resident than 92% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Georgetown
All Georgetown schools →School Grade B
The public schools Georgetown’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 60% 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 Georgetown is
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