Living Near Orange

20 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Orange, and roughly 228 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.

Orange, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Towns within 20 minutes of Orange: 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
Erving Franklin	10 min	$270,500	$2,591/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈19
New Salem Franklin	12 min	$341,200	$4,647/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Warwick Franklin	15 min	$272,200	$4,502/yr	cable	yes	≈16
Wendell Franklin	15 min	$274,050	$5,618/yr	town fibre	yes	≈17

20 to 35 minutes

Towns 20 to 35 minutes of Orange: 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
Shutesbury Franklin	23 min	$385,400	$6,317/yr	town fibre	yes	≈11
Northfield Franklin	24 min	$302,100	$4,025/yr	cable	yes	≈36
Montague Franklin	28 min	$302,800	$4,581/yr	cable	yes	≈33
Gill Franklin	32 min	$308,300	$4,597/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Bernardston Franklin	33 min	$303,300	$4,610/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Greenfield Franklin	34 min	$305,000	$5,723/yr	cable	yes	≈42

35 to 50 minutes

Towns 35 to 50 minutes of Orange: 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
Leverett Franklin	38 min	$464,000	$7,456/yr	town fibre	yes	≈13
Sunderland Franklin	38 min	$396,450	$5,042/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Amherst Hampshire	39 min	$537,100	$9,304/yr	cable	yes	≈14
Belchertown Hampshire	39 min	$418,200	$6,400/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Deerfield Franklin	41 min	$424,900	$5,846/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Ware Hampshire	46 min	$311,450	$4,513/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Whately Franklin	47 min	$419,050	$5,602/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Hadley Hampshire	48 min	$458,800	$5,381/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Granby Hampshire	50 min	$382,300	$5,677/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Leyden Franklin	50 min	$283,000	$4,157/yr	town fibre	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.