Living Near Leyden

24 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Leyden, and roughly 154 people across the region already commute to work there. Minutes are town centre to workplace on open roads, without traffic, your street and your rush hour will differ.

Leyden, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Towns within 20 minutes of Leyden: 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	Already Commute
Colrain Franklin	18 min	$245,200	$4,369/yr	town fibre	yes	≈5
Greenfield Franklin	19 min	$264,600	$4,963/yr	cable	yes	≈46
Bernardston Franklin	20 min	$303,300	$4,610/yr	cable	yes	≈19

20 to 35 minutes

Towns 20 to 35 minutes of Leyden: 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	Already Commute
Deerfield Franklin	27 min	$424,900	$5,846/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Gill Franklin	31 min	$292,900	$4,367/yr	cable	yes	≈8
Northfield Franklin	31 min	$302,100	$4,025/yr	cable	yes	≈10
Sunderland Franklin	34 min	$396,450	$5,042/yr	cable	yes	≈4
Shelburne Franklin	35 min	$364,900	$4,769/yr	cable	yes	≈2

35 to 50 minutes

Towns 35 to 50 minutes of Leyden: 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	Already Commute
Whately Franklin	37 min	$419,050	$5,602/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Buckland Franklin	38 min	$315,300	$5,278/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Montague Franklin	38 min	$302,800	$4,581/yr	cable	yes	≈13
Charlemont Franklin	40 min	$277,400	$4,663/yr	town fibre	yes	≈2
Conway Franklin	41 min	$404,800	$5,911/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Erving Franklin	41 min	$270,500	$2,591/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈2
Hatfield Hampshire	41 min	$416,900	$6,255/yr	cable	yes	≈4
Northampton Hampshire	44 min	$504,350	$7,060/yr	cable	yes	≈6
Warwick Franklin	44 min	$245,600	$4,062/yr	cable	yes	≈3
Heath Franklin	45 min	$242,950	$4,711/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Wendell Franklin	45 min	$246,300	$5,049/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Hadley Hampshire	46 min	$458,800	$5,381/yr	cable	yes	≈4
Ashfield Franklin	47 min	$359,500	$5,116/yr	town fibre	yes	≈4
Leverett Franklin	47 min	$464,000	$7,456/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Amherst Hampshire	50 min	$537,100	$9,304/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Hawley Franklin	50 min	$250,300	$4,055/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.
"Already commute" counts come from the federal commute census, which counts jobs by workplace, small flows fall below its floor and show as such, never as zero.
"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 2026-09-19.
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.