Stow
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About Stow
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesStow is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is located 21 miles (34 km) west of Boston, in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. The population was 7,174 at the 2020 census. Stow was officially incorporated in 1683 with an area of approximately 40 square miles (100 km2). Over centuries it gave up land as newer, smaller towns were created, ceding land to Harvard (1732), Shirley (1765), Boxborough (1783), Hudson (1866) and Maynard (1871). Stow now has an area of 18.1 square miles (47 km2). With the exception of factories at Assabet Village and Rock Bottom (later Maynard and Gleasondale), Stow was primarily sparsely settled farm and orchard land until the 1950s.
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How Stow ranks
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Housing in Stow
The typical Stow home is worth about $816,000, up 0.7% in a year, 23% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Stow
Safety Grade A
Stow reports less crime per resident than 93% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Stow
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The public schools Stow’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 83% 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 Stow is
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