Oak Bluffs
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Outdoors in Oak Bluffs
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c. 1865
Bathing houses &c. Oak Bluffs, c. 1865
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About Oak Bluffs
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesOak Bluffs is a town on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The population was 5,341 at the 2020 United States census. The town contains the census-designated place of the same name. It is one of the island's principal points of arrival for summer tourists, and is noted for its "gingerbread cottages" and other well-preserved mid- to late-nineteenth-century buildings. The town has been a historically important center of African American culture since the 18th century.
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How Oak Bluffs ranks
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Housing in Oak Bluffs
The typical Oak Bluffs home is worth about $1,264,000, up 3.8% in a year, 91% above the Massachusetts typical home.
Only 1 sale in May 2026, too few for a market read. The typical value is the steadier guide.
Safety in Oak Bluffs
Safety Grade C+
Oak Bluffs reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 60% report less.
Schools in Oak Bluffs
All Oak Bluffs schools →School Grade B
The public schools Oak Bluffs’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 58% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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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Where Oak Bluffs is
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