Living Near Worcester

4 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Worcester, and roughly 6,146 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.

Worcester, the point the drive times are measured to

35 to 50 minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Brimfield Hampden	39 min	$387,900	$5,190/yr	cable	yes	≈161
Holland Hampden	40 min	$366,700	$4,474/yr	cable	yes	≈111
Palmer Hampden	44 min	$277,900	$4,630/yr	cable	yes	≈100
Wales Hampden	46 min	$298,000	$4,211/yr	cable	yes	≈96

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.