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By Matt Carroll

Globe Staff / August 14, 2008

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Percentage of hybrids among cars and SUVs registered this year. Figures do not include trucks.

Community	Hybrids	All cars	Percent
Abington	22	7,613	0.3
Acton	214	12,084	1.8
Acushnet	9	5,208	0.2
Adams	15	3,696	0.4
Agawam	48	15,628	0.3
Alford	5	283	1.8
Amesbury	53	8,589	0.6
Amherst	227	11,877	1.9
Andover	186	17,453	1.1
Aquinnah	5	298	1.7
Arlington	301	23,422	1.3
Ashburnham	16	2,725	0.6
Ashby	12	1,400	0.9
Ashfield	12	912	1.3
Ashland	75	8,689	0.9
Athol	17	5,718	0.3
Attleboro	102	22,878	0.4
Auburn	43	8,588	0.5
Avon	5	2,248	0.2
Ayer	20	5,507	0.4
Barnstable	193	25,616	0.8
Barre	22	2,516	0.9
Becket	4	953	0.4
Bedford	95	8,052	1.2
Belchertown	49	6,953	0.7
Bellingham	29	8,582	0.3
Belmont	205	12,935	1.6
Berkley	13	2,844	0.5
Berlin	10	1,341	0.7
Bernardston	10	1,136	0.9
Beverly	123	19,976	0.6
Billerica	80	20,003	0.4
Blackstone	20	4,675	0.4
Blandford	4	557	0.7
Bolton	48	2,376	2
Boston	1,615	238,024	0.7
Bourne	74	9,869	0.7
Boxborough	39	2,798	1.4
Boxford	42	4,205	1
Boylston	31	2,373	1.3
Braintree	97	17,024	0.6
Brewster	83	5,240	1.6
Bridgewater	66	10,677	0.6
Brimfield	16	1,806	0.9
Brockton	89	42,401	0.2
Brookfield	11	1,701	0.6
Brookline	438	24,099	1.8
Buckland	11	894	1.2
Burlington	86	13,035	0.7
Cambridge	705	42,196	1.7
Canton	80	11,105	0.7
Carlisle	79	2,766	2.9
Carver	37	5,281	0.7
Charlemont	3	631	0.5
Charlton	45	5,873	0.8
Chatham	62	4,277	1.4
Chelmsford	156	18,976	0.8
Chelsea	54	11,629	0.5
Cheshire	13	1,493	0.9
Chester	3	614	0.5
Chesterfield	3	494	0.6
Chicopee	66	28,873	0.2
Chilmark	18	755	2.4
Clarksburg	6	588	1
Clinton	39	7,036	0.6
Cohasset	72	3,628	2
Colrain	3	803	0.4
Concord	236	9,152	2.6
Conway	11	927	1.2
Cummington	2	499	0.4
Dalton	22	3,102	0.7
Danvers	67	13,527	0.5
Dartmouth	85	15,372	0.6
Dedham	80	12,190	0.7
Deerfield	46	2,740	1.7
Dennis	59	9,417	0.6
Dighton	13	3,248	0.4
Douglas	18	3,880	0.5
Dover	60	2,882	2.1
Dracut	45	15,266	0.3
Dudley	18	5,279	0.3
Dunstable	22	1,519	1.4
Duxbury	119	6,590	1.8
East Bridgewater	25	6,041	0.4
Eastham	56	2,993	1.9
Easthampton	77	8,688	0.9
East Longmeadow	30	8,118	0.4
Easton	102	10,772	0.9
Edgartown	43	2,863	1.5
Egremont	15	783	1.9
Erving	3	769	0.4
Essex	17	1,614	1.1
Everett	29	17,587	0.2
Fairhaven	30	8,078	0.4
Fall River	94	40,793	0.2
Falmouth	230	18,628	1.2
Fitchburg	61	18,068	0.3
Foxborough	57	8,639	0.7
Framingham	243	38,377	0.6
Franklin	109	14,458	0.8
Freetown	22	4,559	0.5
Gardner	27	9,284	0.3
Georgetown	30	3,907	0.8
Gill	15	772	1.9
Gloucester	127	14,581	0.9
Goshen	3	476	0.6
Grafton	88	8,716	1
Granby	13	2,937	0.4
Granville	9	814	1.1
Greenfield	66	9,218	0.7
Groton	94	5,285	1.8
Groveland	17	3,131	0.5
Hadley	28	2,876	1
Halifax	18	3,398	0.5
Hamilton	50	3,877	1.3
Hampden	8	2,558	0.3
Hancock	3	314	1
Hanover	51	6,015	0.8
Hanson	24	4,333	0.6
Hardwick	12	1,219	1
Harvard	70	2,988	2.3
Harwich	83	7,068	1.2
Hatfield	20	1,913	1
Haverhill	107	30,070	0.4
Hawley	1	156	0.6
Heath	5	357	1.4
Hingham	148	9,878	1.5
Hinsdale	9	922	1
Holbrook	15	5,361	0.3
Holden	97	8,602	1.1
Holland	7	1,305	0.5
Holliston	99	6,984	1.4
Holyoke	36	18,252	0.2
Hopedale	20	3,089	0.6
Hopkinton	93	6,480	1.4
Hubbardston	13	1,969	0.7
Hudson	83	9,982	0.8
Hull	56	5,722	1
Huntington	5	996	0.5
Ipswich	79	7,080	1.1
Kingston	40	5,307	0.8
Lakeville	25	4,757	0.5
Lancaster	41	3,457	1.2
Lanesborough	19	1,360	1.4
Lawrence	39	28,182	0.1
Lee	14	2,828	0.5
Leicester	20	5,040	0.4
Lenox	46	2,837	1.6
Leominster	88	21,172	0.4
Leverett	43	1,088	4
Lexington	386	16,743	2.3
Leyden	8	335	2.4
Lincoln	98	3,560	2.8
Littleton	61	4,380	1.4
Longmeadow	97	8,609	1.1
Lowell	112	49,372	0.2
Ludlow	33	10,185	0.3
Lunenburg	32	5,005	0.6
Lynn	82	40,511	0.2
Lynnfield	39	6,092	0.6
Malden	82	25,567	0.3
Manchester	40	2,981	1.3
Mansfield	82	10,906	0.8
Marblehead	145	10,750	1.3
Marion	36	2,648	1.4
Marlborough	127	21,604	0.6
Marshfield	91	11,878	0.8
Mashpee	60	7,644	0.8
Mattapoisett	32	3,312	1
Maynard	42	5,742	0.7
Medfield	56	5,772	1
Medford	153	27,245	0.6
Medway	43	6,020	0.7
Melrose	90	13,547	0.7
Mendon	24	2,700	0.9
Merrimac	23	3,050	0.8
Methuen	73	24,615	0.3
Middleborough	69	10,291	0.7
Middleton	29	3,697	0.8
Milford	66	14,953	0.4
Millbury	31	6,550	0.5
Millis	40	4,004	1
Millville	8	1,494	0.5
Milton	147	13,275	1.1
Monson	20	4,045	0.5
Montague	33	4,498	0.7
Monterey	11	504	2.2
Montgomery	1	375	0.3
Nahant	19	2,056	0.9
Nantucket	107	5,211	2.1
Natick	179	16,965	1.1
Needham	239	14,594	1.6
New Ashford	7	105	6.7
New Bedford	72	39,540	0.2
New Braintree	2	436	0.5
Newbury	44	3,445	1.3
Newburyport	108	9,735	1.1
New Marlborough	12	618	1.9
New Salem	4	526	0.8
Newton	813	44,691	1.8
Norfolk	43	4,314	1
North Adams	25	5,623	0.4
Northampton	263	15,248	1.7
North Andover	97	14,377	0.7
North Attleborough	73	14,582	0.5
Northborough	90	7,264	1.2
Northbridge	41	7,630	0.5
North Brookfield	11	2,141	0.5
Northfield	28	1,557	1.8
North Reading	44	6,928	0.6
Norton	42	8,566	0.5
Norwell	56	4,829	1.2
Norwood	87	16,060	0.5
Oak Bluffs	23	2,906	0.8
Oakham	11	898	1.2
Orange	14	3,776	0.4
Orleans	73	3,781	1.9
Otis	5	767	0.7
Oxford	38	6,740	0.6
Palmer	20	6,736	0.3
Paxton	17	2,025	0.8
Peabody	81	26,585	0.3
Pelham	10	791	1.3
Pembroke	28	7,582	0.4
Pepperell	48	5,905	0.8
Peru	1	306	0.3
Petersham	13	646	2
Phillipston	4	823	0.5
Pittsfield	144	20,926	0.7
Plainfield	5	328	1.5
Plainville	29	4,371	0.7
Plymouth	167	26,130	0.6
Plympton	8	1,208	0.7
Princeton	26	1,824	1.4
Provincetown	27	2,171	1.2
Quincy	215	43,020	0.5
Randolph	53	16,021	0.3
Raynham	32	6,747	0.5
Reading	82	11,990	0.7
Rehoboth	42	5,765	0.7
Revere	44	21,691	0.2
Richmond	10	845	1.2
Rochester	25	2,468	1
Rockland	30	8,451	0.4
Rockport	41	3,895	1.1
Rowe	4	189	2.1
Rowley	22	2,807	0.8
Royalston	4	645	0.6
Russell	3	799	0.4
Rutland	20	3,369	0.6
Salem	138	20,206	0.7
Salisbury	11	4,491	0.2
Sandisfield	5	416	1.2
Sandwich	100	9,746	1
Saugus	51	13,476	0.4
Savoy	3	296	1
Scituate	80	8,414	1
Seekonk	40	8,123	0.5
Sharon	133	8,862	1.5
Sheffield	22	1,862	1.2
Shelburne	13	1,214	1.1
Sherborn	43	2,191	2
Shirley	24	3,012	0.8
Shrewsbury	168	17,789	0.9
Shutesbury	27	1,012	2.7
Somerset	33	9,728	0.3
Somerville	278	34,219	0.8
Southampton	20	2,851	0.7
Southborough	86	4,902	1.8
Southbridge	15	8,323	0.2
South Hadley	60	8,520	0.7
Southwick	19	5,034	0.4
Spencer	25	5,537	0.5
Springfield	98	73,572	0.1
Sterling	36	3,834	0.9
Stockbridge	17	1,337	1.3
Stoneham	50	11,710	0.4
Stoughton	73	14,333	0.5
Stow	43	3,339	1.3
Sturbridge	39	4,804	0.8
Sudbury	185	8,763	2.1
Sunderland	17	1,980	0.9
Sutton	32	4,329	0.7
Swampscott	65	7,291	0.9
Swansea	33	8,311	0.4
Taunton	83	26,753	0.3
Templeton	7	3,639	0.2
Tewksbury	60	15,000	0.4
Tisbury	34	2,756	1.2
Tolland	2	244	0.8
Topsfield	31	3,048	1
Townsend	26	4,479	0.6
Truro	25	1,209	2.1
Tyngsborough	52	5,667	0.9
Tyringham	5	184	2.7
Upton	37	3,385	1.1
Uxbridge	54	6,600	0.8
Wakefield	61	13,020	0.5
Wales	6	950	0.6
Walpole	81	11,276	0.7
Waltham	221	30,703	0.7
Ware	11	4,708	0.2
Wareham	61	11,354	0.5
Warren	8	2,355	0.3
Warwick	10	388	2.6
Washington	2	261	0.8
Watertown	154	17,838	0.9
Wayland	149	6,938	2.1
Webster	32	9,059	0.4
Wellesley	253	12,861	2
Wellfleet	40	1,803	2.2
Wendell	10	504	2
Wenham	19	1,944	1
Westborough	131	9,728	1.3
West Boylston	25	3,465	0.7
West Bridgewater	21	3,339	0.6
West Brookfield	17	1,868	0.9
Westfield	89	18,940	0.5
Westford	157	11,013	1.4
Westhampton	11	705	1.6
Westminster	27	3,586	0.8
West Newbury	25	2,062	1.2
Weston	137	5,942	2.3
Westport	46	8,208	0.6
West Springfield	44	15,509	0.3
West Stockbridge	8	815	1
West Tisbury	41	1,550	2.6
Westwood	84	7,062	1.2
Weymouth	153	27,792	0.6
Whately	19	847	2.2
Whitman	14	6,618	0.2
Wilbraham	66	7,697	0.9
Williamsburg	29	1,461	2
Williamstown	67	3,231	2.1
Wilmington	56	10,833	0.5
Winchendon	15	4,495	0.3
Winchester	163	10,673	1.5
Windsor	6	381	1.6
Winthrop	30	8,611	0.3
Woburn	83	21,663	0.4
Worcester	291	78,182	0.4
Worthington	7	660	1.1
Wrentham	42	5,069	0.8
Yarmouth	102	13,723	0.7

SOURCE: Registry of Motor Vehicles, state Department of Revenue

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