Mashpee, MA: Local News, Events & Neighbors

Mashpee ( Wampanoag: Mâseepee) is a town on Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It is bordered by Sandwich, Barnstable, and Falmouth, and to the south by Nantucket Sound. Settled in 1660 and incorporated on May 28, 1870, Mashpee had a population of 15,060 at the 2020 census. The town is the historic and contemporary home of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe—federally recognized in 2007—which maintains its headquarters in Mashpee. Mashpee contains South Cape Beach State Park and part of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, as well as the Mashpee River Reservation. The town also contains Mashpee Commons, a redevelopment project recognized as an early example of New Urbanis…

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How Mashpee ranks

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Town numbers

ZIP code02649

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Living in Mashpee

Housing in Mashpee

$708K▲ 1.7% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

The typical Mashpee home is worth about $708,000, up 1.7% in a year, 7% above the Massachusetts typical home.

A seller's market

Buyer’sBalancedSeller’s

Days on market26

Sale-to-list98.6%

Sold in May54

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Safety in Mashpee

B⁺

Safety Grade B+

Mashpee reports less crime per resident than 70% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Mashpee sits closer to the middle.

Violent crime per 1,000

Mashpee 1.7

Massachusetts 3

U.S. 3.3

Property crime per 1,000

Mashpee 5.6

Massachusetts 10.4

U.S. 15.5

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Schools in Mashpee

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B⁻

School Grade B-

The public schools Mashpee’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 54% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

#100Best public schoolsof 282 in MA

DistrictMashpeeSchools3

Quashnet School B-Elementary · Grades 3–6 · 399 students Kenneth Coombs SchoolElementary · Grades PK–2 · 387 students Mashpee Middle-High School A-High · Grades 7–12 · 600 students

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.

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