Hampden County
The region's population centre, built along the Connecticut River around Springfield and the mill cities beside it.
The County in Figures
- Towns
- 23
- People, 2020 Count
- 465,825
- Land
- 617square miles
- Housing Units
- 197,033
- Median Single-Family Assessment
- $332,300
- Median Residential Tax Rate, Fiscal 2026
- $14.93
- Median Annual Tax on a Median Home
- $4,702
- Towns With a Natural Gas Main
- 14of 23
What Varies Most Across Hampden County
Assessed values here run from $214,100 in Chester to $511,700 in Longmeadow. Population runs from 471 in Tolland to 155,929 in Springfield.
14 of the 23 towns have municipal sewer serving part of the town, and every town has a digitised federal flood map.
Every Town in Hampden County
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Population, median single-family assessed value, the residential tax rate, the annual tax that combination produces, and the median year the housing was built. Sortable by any column. No column implies a ranking; sort order is yours.
| Town | Population | Median Home | Tax Rate | Tax on That Home | Median Year Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agawam | 28,692 | $342,300 | $14.10 | $4,875 | 1965 |
| Blandford | 1,215 | $344,200 | $12.57 | $4,327 | 1963 |
| Brimfield | 3,694 | $387,900 | $13.38 | $5,190 | 1983 |
| Chester | 1,228 | $214,100 | $18.06 | $3,867 | 1945 |
| Chicopee | 55,560 | $287,000 | $15.24 | $4,374 | 1956 |
| East Longmeadow | 16,430 | $344,200 | $19.43 | $6,735 | 1962 |
| Granville | 1,538 | $332,400 | $14.00 | $4,702 | 1972 |
| Hampden | 4,966 | $410,150 | $15.78 | $6,521 | 1966 |
| Holland | 2,603 | $366,700 | $12.20 | $4,474 | 1968 |
| Holyoke | 38,238 | $262,450 | $17.43 | $4,603 | 1950 |
| Longmeadow | 15,853 | $511,700 | $19.32 | $9,966 | 1957 |
| Ludlow | 21,002 | $332,300 | $16.01 | $5,320 | 1964 |
| Monson | 8,150 | $348,100 | $14.30 | $5,084 | 1974 |
| Montgomery | 819 | $325,200 | $11.59 | $3,769 | 1974 |
| Palmer | 12,448 | $277,900 | $16.66 | $4,630 | 1960 |
| Russell | 1,643 | $287,600 | $18.42 | $5,298 | 1970 |
| Southwick | 9,232 | $342,800 | $14.42 | $5,048 | 1970 |
| Springfield | 155,929 | $267,900 | $15.46 | $4,181 | 1951 |
| Tolland | 471 | $326,850 | $7.95 | $2,598 | 1979 |
| Wales | 1,832 | $298,000 | $14.13 | $4,211 | 1970 |
| West Springfield | 28,835 | $292,000 | $14.02 | $4,121 | 1955 |
| Westfield | 40,834 | $321,800 | $14.93 | $4,838 | 1964 |
| Wilbraham | 14,613 | $429,000 | $17.45 | $7,572 | 1964 |
What These Columns Mean
- Town
- The municipality. Links to its full record.
- Population
- Population at the 2020 census.
- Median Home
- Median single-family assessed value, from the town's own assessment roll.
- Tax Rate
- Residential rate per $1,000 of assessed value, as certified to the Division of Local Services.
- Tax on That Home
- The rate applied to that median assessment. An illustration of a typical bill, not any particular property's bill.
- Median Year Built
- The median construction year of the town's housing stock.
Cite: RE413. “Every Town in Hampden County.” Updated September 19, 2026. https://www.re413.com/counties/hampden/, underlying sources at https://www.re413.com/sources/.
Property Tax, Town by Town
Each town's rate, its history year by year, and what it produces on a real home.
Go Deeper
Compare two towns side by side, work out what a given price costs in tax anywhere in the county, or look up a specific address. The regional picture is in the tax rates by town and home prices by town.
Sources
- Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services. Certified residential tax rates for each town in the county.
- MassGIS standardized assessors' parcels. Median single-family assessed values and median year built, from each town's own roll.
- U.S. Census Bureau. Population, housing unit counts and land area.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.