Living Near Hampden

24 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Hampden, and roughly 599 recorded job links connect residents across the region to workplaces there (2022, jobs rather than unique people). Minutes are town centre to workplace on open roads, without traffic, your street and your rush hour will differ.

Hampden, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Towns within 20 minutes of Hampden: the drive, the median assessed home, the tax on it, wired internet and whether the town's own schools run through grade 12. Towns listed alphabetically.
Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Recorded Job Links
East Longmeadow Hampden	12 min	$344,200	$6,735/yr	cable	yes	≈73
Wilbraham Hampden	12 min	$429,000	$7,572/yr	cable	yes	≈108
Monson Hampden	13 min	$348,100	$5,084/yr	cable	yes	≈46
Longmeadow Hampden	20 min	$511,700	$9,966/yr	cable	yes	≈13

20 to 35 minutes

Towns 20 to 35 minutes of Hampden: the drive, the median assessed home, the tax on it, wired internet and whether the town's own schools run through grade 12. Towns listed alphabetically.
Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Recorded Job Links
Palmer Hampden	21 min	$277,900	$4,630/yr	cable	yes	≈31
Ludlow Hampden	22 min	$332,300	$5,320/yr	cable	yes	≈54
Springfield Hampden	22 min	$267,900	$4,181/yr	cable	yes	≈119
Wales Hampden	24 min	$298,000	$4,211/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Agawam Hampden	25 min	$342,300	$4,875/yr	cable	yes	≈24
Brimfield Hampden	25 min	$387,900	$5,190/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
West Springfield Hampden	27 min	$328,600	$4,639/yr	cable	yes	≈14
Chicopee Hampden	29 min	$287,000	$4,374/yr	cable	yes	≈33
Granby Hampshire	35 min	$382,300	$5,677/yr	cable	yes	≈3
Holland Hampden	35 min	$366,700	$4,474/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor

35 to 50 minutes

Towns 35 to 50 minutes of Hampden: the drive, the median assessed home, the tax on it, wired internet and whether the town's own schools run through grade 12. Towns listed alphabetically.
Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Recorded Job Links
Belchertown Hampshire	36 min	$418,200	$6,400/yr	cable	yes	≈13
Holyoke Hampden	36 min	$262,450	$4,603/yr	cable	yes	≈19
South Hadley Hampshire	38 min	$366,500	$4,955/yr	cable	yes	≈11
Ware Hampshire	38 min	$311,450	$4,513/yr	cable	yes	≈10
Southwick Hampden	40 min	$342,800	$5,048/yr	cable	yes	≈8
Easthampton Hampshire	43 min	$394,100	$5,355/yr	cable	yes	≈4
Westfield Hampden	44 min	$321,800	$4,838/yr	cable	yes	≈9
Southampton Hampshire	47 min	$448,400	$6,016/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Hadley Hampshire	49 min	$458,800	$5,381/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Northampton Hampshire	49 min	$504,350	$7,060/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor

Reading This Honestly

Drive times are computed town centre to workplace over the open road network, free of traffic. A hilltown's own roads, snow, and rush hour all add real minutes.
Median home values are assessed values from the towns' own rolls, asking prices run different, usually higher.
Recorded job links come from the 2022 Massachusetts main LODES file. Both home and workplace are in Massachusetts; interstate commutes are excluded. These are jobs, not unique people or daily trips. Only the top 25 origins or destinations are retained.
"Tuitions out" means older students attend a neighbouring district by arrangement, every grade has a school.

Sources

Drive times from openrouteservice by HeiGIT, map data from OpenStreetMap; town assessment rolls and certified tax rates. Checked 2026-11-02.
Federal commute census (LODES). Figures through 2022.

"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.