West Springfield
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About West Springfield
City in Massachusetts, United StatesWest Springfield is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 28,835 at the 2020 United States Census. The city is also known as "West Side", in reference to the fact that it is on the western side of the Connecticut River from Springfield, a fact which played a major part in the town's early history.
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Housing in West Springfield
The typical West Springfield home is worth about $368,000, up 4.7% in a year, 44% below the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in West Springfield
Safety Grade D
West Springfield reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 89% report less.
Schools in West Springfield
All West Springfield schools →School Grade C
The public schools West Springfield’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 68% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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Where West Springfield is
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