Massachusetts Rural Definition Massachusetts State Office of Rural Health List of Rural Towns Version 3.2017

County Towns Rural Level Barnstable Brewster rural level 1 Barnstable Chatham rural level 1 Barnstable Eastham rural level 1 Barnstable Orleans rural level 1 Barnstable Provincetown rural level 2 Barnstable Truro rural level 2 Barnstable Wellfleet rural level 2 Berkshire Adams rural level 1 Berkshire Alford rural level 2 Berkshire Becket rural level 1 Berkshire Cheshire rural level 1 Berkshire Clarksburg rural level 2 Berkshire Dalton rural level 1 Berkshire Egremont rural level 2 Berkshire Florida rural level 2 Berkshire Great Barrington rural level 2 Berkshire Hancock rural level 2 Berkshire Hinsdale rural level 1 Berkshire Lanesborough rural level 1 Berkshire Lee rural level 2 Berkshire Lenox rural level 2 Berkshire Monterey rural level 2 Berkshire Mount Washington rural level 2 Berkshire New Ashford rural level 1 Berkshire New Marlborough rural level 2 Berkshire North Adams rural level 2 Berkshire Otis rural level 2 Berkshire Peru rural level 2 Berkshire Richmond rural level 1 Berkshire Sandisfield rural level 2 Berkshire Savoy rural level 1 Berkshire Sheffield rural level 2 Berkshire Stockbridge rural level 2 Berkshire Tyringham rural level 2 Berkshire Washington rural level 1 Berkshire West Stockbridge rural level 2 Berkshire Williamstown rural level 2 Berkshire Windsor rural level 1 Bristol Berkley rural level 1 Bristol Dighton rural level 1 Bristol Freetown rural level 1 Bristol Rehoboth rural level 1 Dukes Aquinnah rural level 2 Dukes Chilmark rural level 2 Dukes Edgartown rural level 2 Dukes Gosnold rural level 2 Dukes Oak Bluffs rural level 2 Dukes Tisbury rural level 2 Dukes West Tisbury rural level 2 Essex Boxford rural level 1 Essex Essex rural level 1 Essex Newbury rural level 1 Essex Rowley rural level 1 Essex West Newbury rural level 1 Franklin Ashfield rural level 1 Franklin Bernardston rural level 2 Franklin Buckland rural level 2 Franklin Charlemont rural level 2 Franklin Colrain rural level 2 Franklin Conway rural level 1 Franklin Deerfield rural level 1 Franklin Erving rural level 2 Franklin Gill rural level 2 Franklin Greenfield rural level 2 Franklin Hawley rural level 2 Franklin Heath rural level 2 Franklin Leverett rural level 1 Franklin Leyden rural level 2 Franklin Monroe rural level 2 Franklin Montague rural level 2 Franklin New Salem rural level 2 Franklin Northfield rural level 2 Franklin Orange rural level 2 Franklin Rowe rural level 2 Franklin Shelburne rural level 2 Franklin Shutesbury rural level 1 Franklin Sunderland rural level 1 Franklin Warwick rural level 2 Franklin Wendell rural level 2 Franklin Whately rural level 1 Hampden Blandford rural level 1 Hampden Brimfield rural level 1 Hampden Chester rural level 1 Hampden Granville rural level 1 Hampden Hampden rural level 1 Hampden Holland rural level 1 Hampden Monson rural level 1 Hampden Montgomery rural level 1 Hampden Palmer rural level 1 Hampden Russell rural level 1 Hampden Southwick rural level 1 Hampden Tolland rural level 1 Hampden Wales rural level 1 Hampshire Belchertown rural level 1 Hampshire Chesterfield rural level 1 Hampshire Cummington rural level 1 Hampshire Goshen rural level 1 Hampshire Granby rural level 1 Hampshire Hadley rural level 1 Hampshire Hatfield rural level 1 Hampshire Huntington rural level 1 Hampshire Middlefield rural level 1 Hampshire Pelham rural level 1 Hampshire Plainfield rural level 2 Hampshire Southampton rural level 1 Hampshire Ware rural level 1 Hampshire Westhampton rural level 1 Hampshire Williamsburg rural level 1 Hampshire Worthington rural level 1 Middlesex Ashby rural level 1 Middlesex Ayer rural level 1 Middlesex Boxborough rural level 1 Middlesex Carlisle rural level 1 Middlesex Dunstable rural level 1 Middlesex Lincoln rural level 1 Middlesex Sherborn rural level 1 Middlesex Shirley rural level 1 Middlesex Stow rural level 1 Middlesex Townsend rural level 1 Nantucket Nantucket rural level 2 Norfolk Dover rural level 1 Plymouth Halifax rural level 1 Plymouth Marion rural level 1 Plymouth Mattapoisett rural level 1 Plymouth Plympton rural level 1 Plymouth Rochester rural level 1 Plymouth West Bridgewater rural level 1 Worcester Ashburnham rural level 1 Worcester Athol rural level 2 Worcester Barre rural level 1 Worcester Berlin rural level 1 Worcester Bolton rural level 1 Worcester Boylston rural level 1 Worcester Brookfield rural level 1 Worcester Charlton rural level 1 Worcester Clinton rural level 1 Worcester Douglas rural level 1 Worcester East Brookfield rural level 1 Worcester Hardwick rural level 2 Worcester Harvard rural level 1 Worcester Hubbardston rural level 1 Worcester Lancaster rural level 1 Worcester Mendon rural level 1 Worcester New Braintree rural level 2 Worcester North Brookfield rural level 1 Worcester Oakham rural level 1 Worcester Paxton rural level 1 Worcester Petersham rural level 2 Worcester Phillipston rural level 2 Worcester Princeton rural level 1 Worcester Royalston rural level 1 Worcester Rutland rural level 1 Worcester Sterling rural level 1 Worcester Sturbridge rural level 1 Worcester Sutton rural level 1 Worcester Templeton rural level 1 Worcester Upton rural level 1 Worcester Warren rural level 1 Worcester West Brookfield rural level 1 Worcester Westminster rural level 1