Bill against neighbours

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At $7,444, the average bill is 6th of 11 nearby towns and 145 of 351 statewide.

Average single-family bill, nearby towns

DLS Average Single-Family Tax Bill, FY2026. What each town buys with its bill is not in the file.

1 · The facts

$7,444
Lunenburg’s average bill, FY2026
6th of 11
among this project’s nearby towns, by bill
145 of 351
rank statewide, highest bill first
$7,999
median of the ten neighbours’ bills (ours)
$14,562
Harvard, the highest of them
$5,189
Fitchburg, the lowest
15.6%
Lunenburg’s bill as a share of income per capita
$47,872
income per capita, as DLS prints it

2 · What it shows

1
The average bill sits in the middle: below the neighbours’ median of $7,999.
2
The bill is 15.6% of income per capita here, a ratio DLS prints for every town.

The average single-family bill, FY2026, nearby towns

	Average bill	Average value	Bill / income per capita
Harvard	$14,562	$917,594	16.7%
Groton	$11,253	$761,388	12.1%
Westford	$11,171	$852,122	13.7%
Littleton	$10,800	$770,356	14.6%
Lancaster	$9,373	$554,631	20.7%
Lunenburg	$7,444	$517,296	15.6%
Ayer	$6,625	$571,644	14.1%
Shirley	$6,490	$523,807	16.6%
Leominster	$6,489	$475,021	18.4%
Townsend	$6,459	$469,723	15.3%
Fitchburg	$5,189	$390,444	20.3%

DLS Average Single-Family Tax Bill. The ten towns are the set this project compares Lunenburg with on this measure.

Sources

Massachusetts DOR, Division of Local Services — AvgSingleFamTaxBill.xlsx