UTILIZATION OF LAND 



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Table 9. — Valuation of Recreational Real 



BY Counties 



Valuation of Non-Commercial 



Recreational Property 



County Owned by Owned by 



Massachusetts Out-of-State 



Residents Residents 



Essex $28,298,455 $10,285,230 



Plymouth 39,149,243 2,727,265 



Barnstable 25,183,127 12,625,605 



Norfolk 6,961,750 603,725 



Dukes 3,517,733 3,116,583 



Berkshire 1 ,094,485 4,439,336 



Middlesex 1,750,560 215,040 



Worcester 2.379,859 433,578 



Bristol 2,672,395 1,446,925 



Nantucket 2,446,820 1,631200 



Suffolk 



Hampden 697,205 145,925 



Hampshire 824,081 182,729 



Franklin 242,998 356,585 



Total $115,218,711 $38,209,726 



Estate in Massachusetts, 



Valuation of 

 Commercial 

 Recreational 

 Property 



$9,445,140 



2,369,998 



4,206,823 



2,676,099 



1,306.907 



1,958.112 



4.488.490 



2.501.141 



587,945 



613,460 



3,900.350 



1.370.698 



403.460 



102.120 



Total 



Recreational 



Property 



$48,028,825 



44.246,506 



42,015,555 



10,241.574 



7.941.223 



7.491,933 



6,454,090 



5,314,578 



4,707,265 



4.691,480 



3.900,350 



2,213,828 



1,410.270 



701,703 



$35,930,743 



$189,359,180 



In the town of Gosnokl (Dukes County) the vakiation of recreational real estate 

 rises as high as 95.3 per cent (Table 10) of the total valuation, while in towns like 

 Eastham and Dennis on Cape Cod over 80 per cent of their real estate values is in 

 recreational uses. 



Table 10. 



Towns 



Gosnold 



Oak Bluffs 



Eastham 



Dennis 



Scituate 



Manchester 



Wellfleet 



Hull 



Sandisfield 



Salisbury 



Falmouth 



Barnstable 



Monterey 



Chatham 



Harwich 



Yarmouth 



Marshfield 



Stockbridge 



Mattapoisett 



Bourne 



- Twenty Massachusetts Towns with Highest Proportion of 

 Total Valuation in Recreational Property 



Valuation of 

 Recreational 



Land 



$1,169,980 



3.116.505 



877.705 



2,200.000 



8,300,610 



7,502,135 



1,123,650 



10,944,705 



350,000 



1,625,860 



11,039,982 



11,629,580 



357,944 



2,836,140 



2,830,900 



2,137,000 

 3,736,865 

 2,568,850 

 1.698,345 

 4.167.794 



Where recreational property becomes a major factor in any community it neces- 

 sarily affects the value of local farm land. This condition makes itself felt even in 

 the inland towns and is well demonstrated by several Berkshire towns where farm 

 land values are far above the average for both the County and the State. In the 

 section adjoining the coast there are a number of towns where the average value 

 of farm land exceeds $500 per acre. 



