NEWS

Find Your Local City’s “ParkScore” on Trust for Public Land Index

Jun 3, 2020

According to the Trust for Public Land, Boston ranks ninth among all US cities on their ParkScore Index that ranks communities based on accessibility to parks and recreation facilities.

Cities of all sizes (towns are not included in the data) are able to see how many of their residents live within a ten-minute walk to a park, with numbers broken down by age, race, and income.

Below is a quick list of Gateway Cities in Massachusetts with the percentage of older adult residents (65+) living within a ten-minute walk of a park. For more information, see the ParkScore website here.

  • Attleboro: 45%
  • Barnstable: 13%
  • Brockton: 64%
  • Chelsea: 100%
  • Chicopee: 55%
  • Everett: 99%
  • Fall River: 71%
  • Fitchburg: 66%
  • Haverhill: 49%
  • Holyoke: 60%
  • Lawrence: 90%
  • Leominster: 28%
  • Lowell: 89%
  • Lynn: 95%
  • Malden: 93%
  • Methuen: 49%
  • New Bedford: 75%
  • Peabody: 48%
  • Pittsfield: 73%
  • Quincy: 95%
  • Revere: 93%
  • Salem: 78%
  • Springfield: 93%
  • Taunton: 42%
  • Westfield: 6%
  • Worcester: 69%