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About Truro
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesTruro () is a town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". English colonists named it after Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The historic Wampanoag Native American people called the area Pamet or Payomet. Their language was part of the large Algonquian family. This name was adopted for the Pamet River and the harbor area around the town center known as the Pamet Roads. The population of Truro was 2,454 at the 2020 census. Over half of the land area of the town is part of.…
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Housing in Truro
The typical Truro home is worth about $1,051,000, down 0.9% in a year, 59% above the Massachusetts typical home.
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Safety in Truro
Safety Grade B
Truro reports less crime per resident than 61% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Truro sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Truro
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The public schools Truro’s kids attend outperform 75% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
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