Towns compared

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On the state’s figure, which added Medicare and life in FY2024, spending grew 6.84% a year from FY2015.

Health spending growth, nearby towns

A year, FY2015-FY2025, as filed. Lunenburg’s FY2024 figure added Medicare and life. A fall draws to the left of zero.

1 · The facts

6.84%
a year, Lunenburg, FY2015-FY2025
4.19%
a year, the median municipality
301 of 343
place, slowest growth first
155 of 343
grew under 4% a year over the decade
4.11%
median, 259 fully insured towns, as Lunenburg is
4.86%
median, 51 self-insured towns
—
whether every town counts the same accounts
not published

2 · What it shows

1
Lunenburg ranks 301 of 343 by growth, slowest first.
2
155 of 343 municipalities held growth under 4% a year over the same decade.
3
Levels are not compared: a self-insured town’s figure includes the employee’s share.

The towns this project compares against

	FY2015	FY2025	A year
Westford	$8,186,031	$17,239,556	7.73%
Lunenburg	$1,568,744	$3,038,832	6.84%
Leominster	$19,308,192	$36,365,769	6.54%
Fitchburg	$16,973,461	$30,208,091	5.93%
Littleton	$3,035,390	$5,148,716	5.43%
Lancaster	$488,439	$744,845	4.31%
Harvard	$2,046,430	$2,921,588	3.62%
Groton	$1,360,249	$1,876,928	3.27%
Townsend	$846,681	$1,102,338	2.67%
Ayer	$1,264,714	$1,587,063	2.30%
Shirley	$505,948	$216,504	-8.14%

Health insurance spending as each town filed it on Schedule A. Compare the rate, not the level; what each town’s figure contains differs.

1 · The facts

2 · What it shows

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