Massachusetts towns

$33.4B

spent from the general fund by 327 towns in FY2025

351 towns with a page · 24 with no FY2025 figures on file yet

All 351 towns

Spending per resident in the latest audited year. Open a town for its budget by category.

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Boston650,706 residents · $4.8B in FY2025$7,341 per resident Worcester205,319 residents · $899.8M in FY2025$4,382 per resident Springfield154,064 residents · $919.9M in FY2025$5,971 per resident Cambridge118,488 residents · $815.9M in FY2025$6,886 per resident Lowell113,608 residents · $526.6M in FY2025$4,635 per resident Brockton104,826 residents · $569.6M in FY2025$5,433 per resident Quincy101,727 residents · $479.4M in FY2025$4,712 per resident Lynn100,891 residents · $544.2M in FY2025$5,394 per resident New Bedford100,682 residents · $518.7M in FY2025$5,152 per resident Fall River93,682 residents · $430.2M in FY2025$4,592 per resident Lawrence87,954 residents · $443.5M in FY2025$5,042 per resident Newton87,381 residents · $529.8M in FY2025$6,063 per resident Somerville79,762 residents · $355.1M in FY2025$4,452 per resident Framingham70,963 residents · $351.6M in FY2025$4,954 per resident Haverhill67,153 residents · $257.5M in FY2025$3,834 per resident Medford65,399 residents · $205.5M in FY2025$3,142 per resident Malden64,712 residents · $222.4M in FY2025$3,437 per resident Plymouth64,269 residents · $291.5M in FY2025$4,536 per resident Waltham64,065 residents · $322.4M in FY2025$5,033 per resident Brookline62,535 residents · $364.7M in FY2025$5,832 per resident Taunton59,922 residents · $273.6M in FY2025$4,566 per resident Revere58,528 residents · $299.3M in FY2025$5,114 per resident Weymouth57,410 residents · $215.8M in FY2025$3,758 per resident Chicopee54,980 residents · $241.4M in FY2025$4,391 per resident Peabody53,896 residents · $207.4M in FY2025$3,848 per resident Methuen53,241 residents · $218.1M in FY2025$4,096 per resident Barnstable49,532 residents · $195.6M in FY2025$3,948 per resident Everett49,350 residents · $309.8M in FY2025$6,278 per resident Attleboro46,601 residents · $186.5M in FY2025$4,003 per resident Arlington45,522 residents · $214.3M in FY2025$4,707 per resident Salem44,722 residents · $181.2M in FY2025$4,052 per resident Leominster43,646 residents · $173.3M in FY2025$3,970 per resident Pittsfield43,310 residents · $204.2M in FY2025$4,716 per resident Beverly42,235 residents · $172.6M in FY2025$4,087 per resident Fitchburg41,502 residents · $178.9M in FY2025$4,311 per resident Billerica41,319 residents · $197.6M in FY2025$4,782 per resident Woburn41,248 residents · $193.7M in FY2025$4,696 per resident Marlborough40,971 residents · $205.2M in FY2025$5,009 per resident Westfield40,535 residents · $169.0M in FY2025$4,170 per resident Amherst40,059 residents · $86.4M in FY2025$2,157 per resident

Understand

What this page covers

General fund spending by function, as each town reports it on its Schedule A, and the operating budget voted each year (a total: the state files it by funding source, not by function). Schools the town runs are included; enterprise funds (water, sewer) are not.

Comparing with other towns in Massachusetts

Each state collects its towns' figures in its own way. Some report the general fund only, others every fund; some include schools and others leave them to separate school districts. Per-resident figures are compared between towns of the same state only. A few cities also do the work of a county — San Francisco and Jacksonville among them — and spend far more per resident than a city of the same size.

Source

Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services — Schedule A and Tax Rate Recapitulation. The state's records ↗

Other states

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Source: Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services — Schedule A and Tax Rate Recapitulation.