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A town of 1,708 people in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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Conserved land62%10,321 of 16,689 acres
Trails78 mi3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves126,043 conserved acres per 1,000 residents

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About Truro

Town in Massachusetts, United States
1700Established
2,454Population
26.3 sq miArea
26 ftElevation

Truro () 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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ZIP code02666
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Housing in Truro

$1.05M▼ 0.9% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

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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Days on market5
Sale-to-list97.3%
Sold in May5
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B

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.

Violent crime per 1,000
Truro 2.8
Massachusetts 3
U.S. 3.3
Property crime per 1,000
Truro 10
Massachusetts 10.4
U.S. 15.5
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School Grade A-

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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