Millis makes Massachusetts’s top 10 on 2 lists
Millis is ranked on 39 lists against the 284 Massachusetts towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 2 and the top quarter on 11.
The lists Millis does best on
Each list ranks every MA town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with Millis marked.
Millis lands in the top half on 18 of 25 lists
Each dot is Millis’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in MA, the right end is last. Areas where Millis does best come first.
Hotter summers than 91% of Massachusetts
Not better or worse, just Millis’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
2 spots from the top 3 for safety
Lists where Millis sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
Millis out-ranks 2 of its 5 ranked neighbors
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.
Every MA list, and where Millis lands
41 lists from Census, school, health, library, crime, climate and land data. Tap any list to see every town on it.
Safety
Safest#1 Groveland · 0.6
#5 Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Edgartown · 62.9%
#179
Most new homes#1 Nantucket · 17.4 per 1,000
#10
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Orange · +69.9%
#182
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Malden · 83.1 per home
#133 Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 Provincetown · 27.5 per resident
#45
Most library borrowing#1 West Tisbury · 34.6 per resident
#21
Best libraries for kids#1 West Tisbury · 115.2 per child
#12 Health
D Healthiest#1 Dover · 100 / 100 #71
Lowest obesity#1 Amherst Town · 19%
#41
Fewest smokers#1 Lexington · 6%
#91
D
Most active#1 Dover · 12%
#30
Fewest uninsured#1 Manchester-by-the-Sea · 2%
#24
Lowest depression#1 Lexington · 20%
#103
Closest to a top hospital#1 Milford · 0.0 mi
#123 
People
Most educated#1 Wellesley · 89%
#107
Youngest#1 Amherst Town · 21.4
#207
Oldest#1 Orleans · 64.7
#76
Most residents 65+#1 Orleans · 49.3%
#58
Most kids#1 Hopkinton · 29.5%
#187 
Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Provincetown · 68.4%
#100
Most trails#1 Stoneham · 5.9 mi / sq mi
#193
Most walkable#1 Somerville · 306 / sq mi
#167 Getting around
Shortest commute#1 Edgartown · 11.5 min
#149 
The number on the right is Millis’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.