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Mendon

A town of 6,325 people in Worcester County, Massachusetts
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About Mendon

Town in Massachusetts, United States
1660Established
6,228Population
18.3 sq miArea
331 ftElevation

Mendon is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,228 at the 2020 census. Mendon is part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, an early center of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. Mendon celebrated its 350th anniversary on May 15, 2017.

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Housing in Mendon

$714K▲ 1.6% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

The typical Mendon home is worth about $714,000, up 1.6% in a year, 8% above the Massachusetts typical home.

A seller's market

Buyer’sBalancedSeller’s
Days on market29
Sale-to-list98.4%
Sold in May7
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Safety in Mendon

A−

Safety Grade A-

Mendon reports less crime per resident than 82% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.

Violent crime per 1,000
Mendon 1.5
Massachusetts 3
U.S. 3.3
Property crime per 1,000
Mendon 3.7
Massachusetts 10.4
U.S. 15.5
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School Grade B

The public schools Mendon’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 57% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

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