UTILIZATION OF LAND 



Table L 



Percentage of Town Acreage in Non-Resident Ownership. 



Percentage of 



Non-Resident 



Town Ownership 



Bridgewater 12.5 



Winchendon 15.4 



Gill 15.9 



Stonehara 16.6 



Millbury 16.7 



Oak Bluffs 16.8 



Colrain 16.9 



Concord 16.9 



Dudley 17.5 



Templeton 17.6 



Westboro 18.0 



Townsend 18.5 



Spencer 18.7 



Merrimac 20.2 



Harvard 20.3 



Seekonk 20.5 



E. Bridgewater 21.0 



Lincoln 21.1 



Canton 21.7 



Wilbraham 22.5 



Dighton 22.6 



N. Andover 22.7 



Pcpperell 2.^.4 



Morthfield 24.0 



Berlin 24.0 



Brookfield 24.2 



Williamsburg 24.3 



Millis 24.4 



Holbrook 2t.5 



Harwich .'4 6 



Greenwich 24.7 



Whately 24.8 



Weston 25.1 



N. Brookfield 25.3 



Marshfield 26.0 



Percentage of 



Non-Resident 



Town Ownership 



Ashfield 26.6 



Chatham 27.8 



Dalton 29.4 



Southampton 29.6 



Ipswich 29.9 



Hingham 30.2 



Norton 30.4 



Montgomery 31.1 



Ashland 31.8 



Boxboro 31.8 



Lancaster 33.2 



Chester 34.9 



Middlefield 35.2 



Ashburnham 36.3 



Rutland 37.0 



Esse.K 37.6 



Scituate 37.8 



Alford 39.3 



Cummington 40.2 



New Marlboro 41.2 



Petersham 42.2 



Sandwich 42.9 



Svvampfcott 43.3 



Lenox 43.4 



Chilmark 44.4 



Leyden 44.5 



Sandisfield 44.9 



Hancock 49.1 



Tvringham 49.5 



Pembroke 52.2 



Windsor 55.7 



Wellesley 57.4 



Holland 66.3 



Randolph 68.0 



Shutesbury 70.7 



Holliston 88.1 



The Extent of Non-Resident Land Ownership in Agricultural 

 Communities in Massachusetts 



The percentage of town acreage owned by non-residents in each of the 71 towns 

 included in this study is shown in Table 1. Of the total of 944,449 acres assessed 

 in 1928 in these towns, 35.7 per cent (337,635 acres) is owned by non-residents. 

 The term "non-resident ownership" is applied here in a broad sense, including both 

 out-of-State residents and those residing in various other sections of the State. 

 It includes also owners residing in neighboring towns with a part of their land sit- 

 uated across the border line. As disclosed by the study of individual towns, 

 however, this factor would account for less than one-tenth of the area owned by 

 non-residents. 



Table 2. — Proportion of Land Owned by Non-Residents in 71 

 Massachusetts Towns 



Per 

 Acres cent 



Total assessed area 944,449 



Area owned by non-residents 337,635 



Per cent of assessed area 35.7 



Land owned by non-residents, equipped with buildings 189,622 



Per cent of total non-resident area 56.2 



