Watertown
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About Watertown
City in Massachusetts, United StatesWatertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertown was one of the first Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements organized by Puritan settlers in 1630. The city is home to the Perkins School for the Blind, the Armenian Library and Museum of America, and the historic Watertown Arsenal, which produced military armaments from 1816 through World War II.
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How Watertown ranks
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Housing in Watertown
The typical Watertown home is worth about $819,000, up 1% in a year, 24% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Watertown
Safety Grade C+
Watertown reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 56% report less.
Schools in Watertown
All Watertown schools →School Grade C
The public schools Watertown’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 68% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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 Watertown is
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