Living Near Orange
20 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Orange, and roughly 228 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.
Within 20 Minutes
| Town | Drive | Median Home (Assessed) | Tax on Median | Wired Internet | Schools Through 12 | Already Commute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erving Franklin | 10 min | $270,500 | $2,591/yr | cable | tuitions out | ≈19 |
| New Salem Franklin | 12 min | $350,500 | $4,774/yr | town fibre | yes | below the count floor |
| Warwick Franklin | 15 min | $245,600 | $4,062/yr | cable | yes | ≈16 |
| Wendell Franklin | 15 min | $246,300 | $5,049/yr | town fibre | yes | ≈17 |
20 to 35 minutes
| Town | Drive | Median Home (Assessed) | Tax on Median | Wired Internet | Schools Through 12 | Already Commute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | $292,900 | $4,367/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 | $264,600 | $4,963/yr | cable | yes | ≈42 |
35 to 50 minutes
| Town | Drive | Median Home (Assessed) | Tax on Median | Wired Internet | Schools Through 12 | Already Commute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | $289,600 | $4,196/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.
- "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 over the open road network (OpenStreetMap); town assessment rolls and certified tax rates. Checked 2026-08-05.
- 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.