Undeliverable IRS refund checks per resident, '07

Median for communities with at least one undelivered: 0.9

By Matt Carroll

Boston Globe / October 9, 2009

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Community	Undelivered checks	Population	Per 1,000 residents

Abington	10	16,365	0.6
Acton	49	20,753	2.4
Acushnet	16	10,443	1.5
Adams	2	8,214	0.2
Agawam	2	28,333	0.1
Alford	97	394	246.2
Amesbury	8	16,429	0.5
Amherst	92	34,275	2.7
Andover	30	33,284	0.9
Aquinnah	10	354	28.2
Arlington	46	41,144	1.1
Ashby	2	2,944	0.7
Ashland	13	15,796	0.8
Athol	12	11,601	1.0
Attleboro	156	43,113	3.6
Auburn	6	16,259	0.4
Avon	4	4,303	0.9
Ayer	7	7,369	0.9
Barnstable	80	46,738	1.7
Barre	3	5,419	0.6
Becket	8	1,797	4.5
Bedford	4	13,146	0.3
Belchertown	8	13,971	0.6
Bellingham	6	15,908	0.4
Belmont	10	23,356	0.4
Berkley	1	6,433	0.2
Beverly	46	39,198	1.2
Billerica	27	42,038	0.6
Blackstone	25	9,042	2.8
Blandford	4	1,279	3.1
Bolton	1	4,481	0.2
Boston	2234	599,351	3.7
Bourne	10	19,023	0.5
Boxborough	4	5,097	0.8
Boxford	2	8,074	0.2
Braintree	76	34,422	2.2
Brewster	8	10,023	0.8
Bridgewater	4	25,514	0.2
Brockton	138	93,092	1.5
Brookfield	1	3,030	0.3
Brookline	50	54,809	0.9
Burlington	11	25,034	0.4
Cambridge	266	101,388	2.6
Canton	8	21,916	0.4
Carver	7	11,547	0.6
Charlton	10	12,576	0.8
Chatham	24	6,726	3.6
Chelmsford	36	34,128	1.1
Chelsea	72	38,203	1.9
Cheshire	2	3,299	0.6
Chester	1	1,296	0.8
Chicopee	62	53,876	1.2
Chilmark	5	963	5.2
Clinton	12	14,030	0.9
Cohasset	2	7,182	0.3
Colrain	2	1,840	1.1
Community	Undelivered checks	Population	Per 1,000 residents
Concord	12	16,840	0.7
Conway	2	1,884	1.1
Danvers	13	26,736	0.5
Dartmouth	90	31,241	2.9
Dedham	21	24,132	0.9
Deerfield	5	4,731	1.1
Dennis	57	15,473	3.7
Dighton	10	6,748	1.5
Douglas	16	7,924	2.0
Dover	2	5,627	0.4
Dracut	10	29,498	0.3
Dudley	7	10,780	0.6
Dunstable	2	3,290	0.6
Duxbury	4	14,444	0.3
East Bridgewater	96	13,879	6.9
Eastham	14	5,445	2.6
Easthampton	54	16,064	3.4
East Longmeadow	48	15,222	3.2
Easton	61	22,969	2.7
Edgartown	26	3,920	6.6
Everett	67	37,269	1.8
Fairhaven	9	16,124	0.6
Fall River	148	90,905	1.6
Falmouth	102	33,247	3.1
Fitchburg	65	39,835	1.6
Foxborough	16	16,298	1.0
Framingham	132	64,786	2.0
Franklin	6	31,381	0.2
Freetown	5	8,935	0.6
Gardner	17	20,613	0.8
Georgetown	3	8,147	0.4
Gloucester	32	30,308	1.1
Goshen	2	956	2.1
Grafton	24	17,525	1.4
Granby	1	6,285	0.2
Granville	4	1,676	2.4
Greenfield	33	17,706	1.9
Groton	1	10,641	0.1
Groveland	3	6,923	0.4
Hadley	10	4,787	2.1
Halifax	1	7,700	0.1
Hamilton	4	8,188	0.5
Hampden	1	5,305	0.2
Hanover	30	13,966	2.1
Hanson	3	9,956	0.3
Hardwick	2	2,650	0.8
Harvard	1	6,001	0.2
Harwich	42	12,387	3.4
Hatfield	6	3,258	1.8
Haverhill	83	59,902	1.4
Hingham	19	22,394	0.8
Hinsdale	2	1,937	1.0
Holbrook	8	10,663	0.8
Holden	3	16,581	0.2
Holland	3	2,532	1.2
Holliston	3	13,941	0.2
Holyoke	150	39,737	3.8
Hopedale	1	6,165	0.2
Hopkinton	5	14,307	0.3
Hubbardston	5	4,461	1.1
Hudson	13	19,580	0.7
Hull	10	11,067	0.9
Huntington	7	2,193	3.2
Ipswich	4	13,245	0.3
Kingston	21	12,339	1.7
Lakeville	14	10,587	1.3
Lancaster	18	7,047	2.6
Lanesborough	6	2,891	2.1
Lawrence	574	70,066	8.2
Lee	28	5,803	4.8
Leicester	5	10,982	0.5
Lenox	3	5,105	0.6
Leominster	46	41,128	1.1
Lexington	9	30,332	0.3
Lincoln	2	7,994	0.3
Littleton	3	8,714	0.3
Longmeadow	10	15,315	0.7
Lowell	185	103,512	1.8
Ludlow	15	22,062	0.7
Lunenburg	3	9,948	0.3
Lynn	252	87,122	2.9
Lynnfield	12	11,382	1.1
Malden	69	55,712	1.2
Mansfield	9	22,993	0.4
Marblehead	12	20,039	0.6
Marion	3	5,217	0.6
Marlborough	140	38,065	3.7
Marshfield	19	24,576	0.8
Mashpee	51	14,261	3.6
Mattapoisett	2	6,447	0.3
Maynard	5	10,177	0.5
Medfield	3	12,266	0.2
Medford	87	55,565	1.6
Medway	1	12,749	0.1
Melrose	7	26,782	0.3
Mendon	1	5,767	0.2
Merrimac	1	6,425	0.2
Methuen	48	43,979	1.1
Middleborough	56	21,245	2.6
Middleton	1	9,347	0.1
Milford	23	27,263	0.8
Millbury	18	13,470	1.3
Millis	5	7,927	0.6
Millville	2	2,834	0.7
Milton	20	25,691	0.8
Monson	3	8,788	0.3
Montague	5	8,334	0.6
Monterey	2	960	2.1
Mount Washington	30	138	217.4
Nahant	3	3,519	0.9
Nantucket	39	10,531	3.7
Natick	144	31,975	4.5
Needham	26	28,263	0.9
New Ashford	1	248	4.0
New Bedford	142	91,849	1.5
New Braintree	1	1,112	0.9
Newbury	3	6,926	0.4
Newburyport	6	17,144	0.3
Newton	79	83,271	0.9
Norfolk	1	10,646	0.1
North Adams	195	13,617	14.3
Northampton	26	28,411	0.9
North Andover	135	27,637	4.9
North Attleborough	355	27,907	12.7
Northborough	20	14,611	1.4
Northbridge	9	14,375	0.6
North Brookfield	9	4,819	1.9
Northfield	6	2,985	2.0
North Reading	36	14,021	2.6
Norton	6	19,222	0.3
Norwell	1	10,271	0.1
Norwood	21	28,172	0.7
Oak Bluffs	11	3,731	2.9
Orange	26	7,796	3.3
Orleans	12	6,315	1.9
Otis	3	1,394	2.2
Oxford	8	13,641	0.6
Palmer	10	12,849	0.8
Paxton	3	4,530	0.7
Peabody	54	51,441	1.0
Pembroke	20	18,595	1.1
Pepperell	16	11,409	1.4
Peru	2	838	2.4
Pittsfield	86	42,931	2.0
Plainville	5	8,311	0.6
Plymouth	76	55,188	1.4
Plympton	2	2,772	0.7
Princeton	1	3,494	0.3
Provincetown	6	3,390	1.8
Quincy	700	91,622	7.6
Randolph	20	30,168	0.7
Raynham	9	13,641	0.7
Reading	7	23,129	0.3
Rehoboth	1	11,484	0.1
Revere	213	55,341	3.8
Richmond	1	1,591	0.6
Rochester	2	5,218	0.4
Rockland	8	17,780	0.4
Rockport	8	7,633	1.0
Rowley	3	5,839	0.5
Rutland	1	7,846	0.1
Salem	49	40,922	1.2
Salisbury	6	8,521	0.7
Sandwich	26	20,255	1.3
Saugus	9	27,192	0.3
Scituate	24	17,881	1.3
Seekonk	5	13,593	0.4
Sharon	7	17,033	0.4
Sheffield	3	3,334	0.9
Shelburne	42	2,036	20.6
Shirley	6	7,726	0.8
Shrewsbury	42	33,489	1.3
Somerset	12	18,268	0.7
Somerville	320	74,405	4.3
Southborough	10	9,484	1.1
Southbridge	81	16,926	4.8
South Hadley	60	16,952	3.5
Southwick	4	9,431	0.4
Spencer	12	12,006	1.0
Springfield	492	149,938	3.3
Sterling	4	7,874	0.5
Stockbridge	2	2,232	0.9
Stoneham	15	21,508	0.7
Stoughton	18	26,951	0.7
Sturbridge	10	9,102	1.1
Sudbury	9	17,159	0.5
Sunderland	4	3,721	1.1
Sutton	15	9,015	1.7
Swampscott	4	13,994	0.3
Swansea	6	16,237	0.4
Taunton	102	55,783	1.8
Templeton	2	7,783	0.3
Tewksbury	12	29,607	0.4
Tisbury	70	3,805	18.4
Tolland	4	451	8.9
Topsfield	2	6,067	0.3
Townsend	6	9,374	0.6
Tyngsborough	24	11,860	2.0
Upton	12	6,526	1.8
Uxbridge	7	12,634	0.6
Wakefield	10	24,706	0.4
Walpole	8	23,086	0.3
Waltham	114	59,758	1.9
Ware	6	9,933	0.6
Wareham	21	21,154	1.0
Warren	1	5,071	0.2
Watertown	89	32,521	2.7
Wayland	14	13,017	1.1
Webster	20	16,705	1.2
Wellesley	7	26,985	0.3
Wellfleet	4	2,748	1.5
Westborough	52	18,459	2.8
West Boylston	27	7,779	3.5
West Bridgewater	63	6,679	9.4
West Brookfield	60	3,826	15.7
Westfield	58	40,160	1.4
Westford	21	21,790	1.0
Westminster	4	7,388	0.5
West Newbury	3	4,269	0.7
Weston	6	11,698	0.5
Westport	24	15,136	1.6
West Springfield	312	27,603	11.3
West Tisbury	144	2,628	54.8
Westwood	6	14,010	0.4
Weymouth	138	53,272	2.6
Whately	1	1,555	0.6
Whitman	6	14,385	0.4
Wilbraham	5	14,032	0.4
Williamstown	6	8,108	0.7
Wilmington	12	21,679	0.6
Winchendon	3	10,130	0.3
Winchester	7	21,137	0.3
Winthrop	13	20,154	0.6
Woburn	34	37,042	0.9
Worcester	429	173,966	2.5
Worthington	1	1,272	0.8
Wrentham	20	11,116	1.8
Yarmouth	102	24,010	4.2

SOURCE: Internal Revenue Service

Undeliverable IRS refund checks per resident, '07

Median for communities with at least one undelivered: 0.9

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