Living Near Wales

19 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Wales, and roughly 95 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.

Wales, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Towns within 20 minutes of Wales: 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
Brimfield Hampden	8 min	$387,900	$5,190/yr	cable	yes	≈13
Holland Hampden	12 min	$366,700	$4,474/yr	cable	yes	≈59
Monson Hampden	14 min	$348,100	$5,084/yr	cable	yes	≈7
Palmer Hampden	18 min	$277,900	$4,630/yr	cable	yes	≈3

20 to 35 minutes

Towns 20 to 35 minutes of Wales: 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
Hampden Hampden	24 min	$410,150	$6,521/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Wilbraham Hampden	27 min	$429,000	$7,572/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Ware Hampshire	31 min	$311,450	$4,513/yr	cable	yes	≈3
Ludlow Hampden	32 min	$332,300	$5,320/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor

35 to 50 minutes

Towns 35 to 50 minutes of Wales: 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
Belchertown Hampshire	36 min	$418,200	$6,400/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
East Longmeadow Hampden	36 min	$344,200	$6,735/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Chicopee Hampden	43 min	$287,000	$4,374/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Granby Hampshire	44 min	$382,300	$5,677/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Holyoke Hampden	44 min	$262,450	$4,603/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Longmeadow Hampden	44 min	$511,700	$9,966/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Springfield Hampden	44 min	$267,900	$4,181/yr	cable	yes	≈6
West Springfield Hampden	46 min	$328,600	$4,639/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
South Hadley Hampshire	47 min	$366,500	$4,955/yr	cable	yes	≈2
Westfield Hampden	48 min	$321,800	$4,838/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Agawam Hampden	49 min	$342,300	$4,875/yr	cable	yes	≈2

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.