Living Near Palmer

32 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Palmer, and roughly 2,135 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.

Palmer, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Monson Hampden	11 min	$348,100	$5,084/yr	cable	yes	≈301
Brimfield Hampden	14 min	$387,900	$5,190/yr	cable	yes	≈77
Ludlow Hampden	16 min	$332,300	$5,320/yr	cable	yes	≈158
Wilbraham Hampden	18 min	$429,000	$7,572/yr	cable	yes	≈149
Belchertown Hampshire	19 min	$418,200	$6,400/yr	cable	yes	≈166
Wales Hampden	19 min	$298,000	$4,211/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Ware Hampshire	19 min	$289,600	$4,196/yr	cable	yes	≈296

20 to 35 minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Hampden Hampden	21 min	$410,150	$6,521/yr	cable	yes	≈36
Holland Hampden	24 min	$366,700	$4,474/yr	cable	yes	≈49
Chicopee Hampden	26 min	$287,000	$4,374/yr	cable	yes	≈174
Granby Hampshire	27 min	$382,300	$5,677/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Springfield Hampden	27 min	$267,900	$4,181/yr	cable	yes	≈346
Holyoke Hampden	28 min	$262,450	$4,603/yr	cable	yes	≈45
West Springfield Hampden	29 min	$292,000	$4,121/yr	cable	yes	≈62
East Longmeadow Hampden	31 min	$344,200	$6,735/yr	cable	yes	≈50
South Hadley Hampshire	31 min	$366,500	$4,955/yr	cable	yes	≈50
Westfield Hampden	32 min	$321,800	$4,838/yr	cable	yes	≈71
Agawam Hampden	33 min	$342,300	$4,875/yr	cable	yes	≈52
Longmeadow Hampden	34 min	$511,700	$9,966/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor

35 to 50 minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Easthampton Hampshire	36 min	$394,100	$5,355/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Amherst Hampshire	38 min	$537,100	$9,304/yr	cable	yes	≈26
Southampton Hampshire	38 min	$448,400	$6,016/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Northampton Hampshire	41 min	$504,350	$7,060/yr	cable	yes	≈27
Shutesbury Franklin	41 min	$385,400	$6,317/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Hadley Hampshire	42 min	$458,800	$5,381/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Russell Hampden	43 min	$287,600	$5,298/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Southwick Hampden	44 min	$342,800	$5,048/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
New Salem Franklin	45 min	$350,500	$4,774/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Hatfield Hampshire	46 min	$416,900	$6,255/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Westhampton Hampshire	48 min	$305,700	$6,221/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Granville Hampden	50 min	$332,400	$4,702/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Whately Franklin	50 min	$419,050	$5,602/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 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.