Mashpee ranks #10 in Massachusetts for trails
Mashpee is ranked on 39 lists against the 284 Massachusetts towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 1 and the top quarter on 8.
More vacation homes than 96% of Massachusetts
Not better or worse, just Mashpee’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
The lists Mashpee does best on
Each list ranks every MA town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with Mashpee marked.
Mashpee out-ranks every neighbor it can be compared with
Head to head on the lists where both towns are ranked: a point for each list where one town places higher. Tap a town for its own rankings.
Mashpee lands in the top half on 17 of 25 lists
Each dot is Mashpee’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in MA, the right end is last. Areas where Mashpee does best come first.
3 spots from the top 10 for low property taxes
Lists where Mashpee sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
Where Mashpee lands in every MA ranking
41 lists from Census, school, health, library, crime, climate and land data. Tap any list to see every town on it.
Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Provincetown · 68.4%
#55
Most trails#1 Stoneham · 5.9 mi / sq mi
#10
Most walkable#1 Somerville · 306 / sq mi
#67 Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 Provincetown · 27.5 per resident
#74
Most library borrowing#1 West Tisbury · 34.6 per resident
#42
Best libraries for kids#1 West Tisbury · 115.2 per child
#41 Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Edgartown · 62.9%
#13
Most new homes#1 Nantucket · 17.4 per 1,000
#48
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Orange · +69.9%
#14
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Malden · 83.1 per home
#190 Health
D Healthiest#1 Dover · 100 / 100 #158
Lowest obesity#1 Amherst Town · 19%
#110
Fewest smokers#1 Lexington · 6%
#129
D
Most active#1 Dover · 12%
#108
Fewest uninsured#1 Manchester-by-the-Sea · 2%
#116
Lowest depression#1 Lexington · 20%
#48
Closest to a top hospital#1 Milford · 0.0 mi
#107 Cost of living
Most affordable#1 North Adams · 1.9 yrs
#148
Cheapest rent#1 Plympton · $555/mo
#158
D
Lowest property tax#1 Dennis · $2,877/yr
#13
Rent easiest to afford#1 Uxbridge · 25.6%
Getting around
Shortest commute#1 Edgartown · 11.5 min
#81 
The number on the right is Mashpee’s spot. All of Massachusetts’s rankings, with the map → · National lists and other states: all rankings.
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- 2,500+ residents. Census estimates for smaller towns carry margins of error too wide to rank fairly, so they sit out every MA list.
- One town, one row. A city that is both a city and a town in Census data, or a village inside a town, is counted once.
- Ties share a rank. Towns on one weather station, one school district or one CDC estimate share a figure, so they share a spot (T).
- No “worst” lists. Lists rank toward the good end, and share cards are made only for the top half. Age, snow and the like are character, not grades.
U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey 5-year, 2010 and 2020 censuses, Building Permits Survey), U.S. Department of Education, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CDC PLACES, Medicare Care Compare, IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FHFA House Price Index, NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. Each list explains its own method.