Metro area · Massachusetts

Barnstable Town, MA metro area

Barnstable Town, MA is a metropolitan area of 1 county in Massachusetts, home to 233,539 residents. Barnstable Town, MA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 97 out of 100 (very high), ranking #30 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Massachusetts it ranks #3 of 9. It ranks best on poor or fair health (low), high school diploma or higher (high) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on cost of buying a home today (high), rent-burdened households (high) and home price to income ratio (high).

97Very high
Quality-of-life score
#30 of 925 metro and micro areas
Massachusetts
#3 of 9 in MA
Population
233,539 (2025)
Land area
394 mi²
Density
592.5 /mi²
CBSA code
12700

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Barnstable Town, MA metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety87#120/924
  • Economy81#179/925
  • Housing1#913/925
  • Health96#34/925
  • Healthcare99#11/923
  • Environment82#165/917
  • Education97#30/925
  • Infrastructure92#74/925
  • Community97#32/925
  • Leisure & amenities99#12/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Barnstable Town, MA metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Barnstable Town, MA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Barnstable Town, MA metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Barnstable Town, MA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Barnstable CountyCentral county95233,539

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Barnstable TownPrincipal city49,568

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Barnstable Town49,568
  2. South Yarmouth11,552
  3. East Falmouth6,245
  4. West Yarmouth6,194
  5. Yarmouth Port5,961
  6. East Harwich5,654
  7. Sagamore4,072
  8. Falmouth3,954
  9. Northwest Harwich3,932
  10. East Sandwich3,864
  11. Forestdale3,801
  12. Dennis Port3,691
  13. Provincetown3,452
  14. Monument Beach3,277
  15. South Dennis3,135
  16. East Dennis3,062
  17. Buzzards Bay2,909
  18. Sandwich2,890
  19. North Falmouth2,838
  20. West Dennis2,556
  21. Dennis2,424
  22. Pocasset2,247
  23. Harwich Port2,238
  24. North Eastham2,085

Other metro and micro areas in Massachusetts

Areas based in Massachusetts, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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