Somerset
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Outdoors in Somerset
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About Somerset
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesSomerset is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,303 at the 2020 census. It is the birthplace and hometown of Clifford Milburn Holland (1883–1924), the chief engineer and namesake of the Holland Tunnel in New York City. Somerset is a part of the South Coast region of Massachusetts which encompasses the communities that surround Buzzards Bay (excluding the Elizabeth Islands, Bourne and Falmouth), Mount Hope Bay and the Sakonnet River.
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How Somerset ranks
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Housing in Somerset
The typical Somerset home is worth about $513,000, up 3.1% in a year, 22% below the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Somerset
Safety Grade B+
Somerset reports less crime per resident than 66% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Somerset sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Somerset
All Somerset schools →School Grade C+
The public schools Somerset’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 56% 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.
Where Somerset is
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