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A town of 19,240 people in Bristol County, Massachusetts
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Town in Massachusetts, United States
1669Established
19,202Population
29.8 sq miArea
105 ftElevation

Norton is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, and contains the villages of Norton Center and Chartley. The population was 19,202 at the 2020 census. Home of Wheaton College, Norton hosted the Dell Technologies Championship, a tournament of the PGA Tour held annually on the Labor Day holiday weekend at the TPC Boston golf club until 2018.

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Housing in Norton

$598K▲ 3.9% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

The typical Norton home is worth about $598,000, up 3.9% in a year, 10% below the Massachusetts typical home.

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Buyer’sBalancedSeller’s
Days on market14
Sale-to-list103.4%
Sold in May11
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Safety Grade A

Norton reports less crime per resident than 90% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.

Violent crime per 1,000
Norton 1.1
Massachusetts 3
U.S. 3.3
Property crime per 1,000
Norton 0.9
Massachusetts 10.4
U.S. 15.5
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School Grade B-

The public schools Norton’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 51% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

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