"Building a Better Community through Business"
POPULATION: approx. 15,093
AREA: 18.6
square miles
TAX RATE:
Business $13.95 per 1000
Residential $12.21 per 1000
TAX SITUATION: 100%
evaluation
DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 32 miles
DRIVING TIME TO BOSTON: 50 minutes
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Town
Administrator, Board of Selectmen
TYPE OF TOWN HOUSING:
Bellingham is a pleasant combination of rural and residential living. While
the town maintains preserves for wildlife, it is also increasing the amount
of industry here. Bellingham has adopted strict measures to insure its
residential areas maintain the small-town feeling it now has. The average
selling price for a newly constructed home is $329,000 and the average price
for an older home starts at $235,000. There is also a newly constructed,
over 55, condo community with prices starting at $249,000.
PUBLIC
SCHOOL SYSTEM:
Three
elementary schools, a newly renovated middle school opened
in September 2002 and a new high school which opened in September of 2001.
PUBLIC FACILITIES & SERVICES:
Gas to selected areas of town, town wells, sewerage to many areas of town.
MEDICAL
FACILITIES:
Hospitals
in nearby Milford, MA and Woonsocket, RI.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES:
Swimming in local lake. Three tennis facilities with four courts at each.
Ball fields at town schools, basketball, soccer.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
Nearby (Franklin) commuter rail service to Boston.