Living Near Heath

21 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Heath, and roughly 48 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.

Heath, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Towns within 20 minutes of Heath: 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
Charlemont Franklin	12 min	$277,400	$4,663/yr	town fibre	yes	≈12

20 to 35 minutes

Towns 20 to 35 minutes of Heath: 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
Hawley Franklin	22 min	$250,300	$4,055/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Buckland Franklin	27 min	$315,300	$5,278/yr	cable	yes	≈4
Colrain Franklin	27 min	$245,200	$4,369/yr	town fibre	yes	≈14
Rowe Franklin	27 min	$285,550	$1,496/yr	town fibre	tuitions out	≈2
Shelburne Franklin	27 min	$364,900	$4,769/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Ashfield Franklin	35 min	$359,500	$5,116/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Plainfield Hampshire	35 min	$244,850	$4,300/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor

35 to 50 minutes

Towns 35 to 50 minutes of Heath: 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
Conway Franklin	37 min	$404,800	$5,754/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Greenfield Franklin	38 min	$305,000	$5,723/yr	cable	yes	≈7
Florida Berkshire	41 min	$213,000	$1,764/yr	cable	tuitions out	below the count floor
Goshen Hampshire	42 min	$338,000	$4,700/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Bernardston Franklin	43 min	$303,300	$4,610/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Cummington Hampshire	43 min	$330,000	$4,122/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Savoy Berkshire	44 min	$207,950	$3,019/yr	cable	tuitions out	below the count floor
Deerfield Franklin	45 min	$424,900	$5,846/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Leyden Franklin	45 min	$283,000	$4,157/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Monroe Franklin	47 min	$146,400	$1,483/yr	cable	tuitions out	below the count floor
Gill Franklin	49 min	$308,300	$4,597/yr	cable	yes	≈1
Sunderland Franklin	49 min	$396,450	$5,042/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
North Adams Berkshire	50 min	$191,450	$3,057/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.