Wayland
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Outdoors in Wayland
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About Wayland
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesWayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town was founded in 1638, and incorporated in 1780 and was originally part of neighboring Sudbury (incorporated 1639). At the 2020 United States census, the population was 13,943. It contains the census-designated place of Cochituate.
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How Wayland ranks
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Housing in Wayland
The typical Wayland home is worth about $1,151,000, up 1.6% in a year, 74% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A strong seller's market
Safety in Wayland
Safety Grade A
Wayland reports less crime per resident than 91% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Wayland
All Wayland schools →School Grade A+
The public schools Wayland’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 95% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
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 Wayland is
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