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About Methuen
City in Massachusetts, United StatesMethuen () is a 23-square-mile (60 km2) city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 53,059 at the 2020 census. Methuen lies along the northwestern edge of Essex County, just east of Middlesex County and just south of Rockingham County, New Hampshire. The city is bordered by Haverhill to the northeast, North Andover to the southeast, Lawrence and Andover to the south, Dracut (Middlesex County) to the west, Pelham, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to the northwest, and Salem, New Hampshire (Rockingham County) to the north. Methuen is located 17 miles (27 km) southwest from Newburyport, 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Boston and 25 miles (40 km) south-southeas…
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How Methuen ranks
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Housing in Methuen
The typical Methuen home is worth about $623,000, up 2.1% in a year, 6% below the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Methuen
Safety Grade B
Methuen reports less crime per resident than 64% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Methuen sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Methuen
All Methuen schools →School Grade C
The public schools Methuen’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 70% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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 Methuen is
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