Firearms licenses per 1,000 residents in Massachusetts, 2009

Licenses to carry: Licensed gun owners per 1,000 residents, '09

By Matt Carroll, Boston Globe | Jan. 21, 2009

The chart shows licensed gun owners per 1,000 residents in 2009. The data includes all licenses -- from a Class A, "license to carry," to a license for chemical propellant. The state median was 65.5 per 1,000.

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Community	License per 1,000	Sum all lic	Population	Rank
Abington	40.6	678	16,689	277
Acton	33.8	702	20,797	298
Acushnet	81.9	849	10,368	132
Adams	104.3	865	8,295	92
Agawam	81.4	2,286	28,091	134
Amesbury	42.9	712	16,584	265
Amherst	15.5	551	35,565	344
Andover	28.5	954	33,418	313
Aquinnah	109.2	39	357	81
Arlington	20.7	849	40,993	335
Ashburnham	101.1	604	5,974	97
Ashby	137.0	401	2,927	51
Ashfield	153.7	280	1,822	37
Ashland	36.9	583	15,807	290
Athol	98.4	1,138	11,570	104
Attleboro	42.1	1,805	42,833	270
Auburn	61.1	991	16,222	200
Avon	50.7	218	4,300	231
Ayer	44.9	332	7,399	261
Barnstable	55.8	2,579	46,184	212
Barre	136.4	741	5,431	52
Becket	169.4	305	1,801	26
Bedford	38.5	522	13,545	281
Belchertown	112.1	1,596	14,233	79
Bellingham	52.7	838	15,900	222
Belmont	22.5	523	23,291	330
Berkley	105.8	684	6,462	89
Berlin	115.7	330	2,853	73
Bernardston	143.5	320	2,230	42
Beverly	35.7	1,404	39,343	296
Billerica	49.8	2,082	41,844	235
Blackstone	63.7	575	9,021	185
Blandford	176.4	224	1,270	21
Bolton	73.1	331	4,530	157
Boston	8.1	4,944	609,023	349
Bourne	70.9	1,375	19,392	161
Boxborough	44.9	228	5,081	260
Boxford	78.0	634	8,131	149
Boylston	77.4	330	4,264	151
Braintree	25.6	904	35,294	324
Brewster	79.2	787	9,936	143
Bridgewater	46.8	1,205	25,774	252
Brimfield	129.7	481	3,708	62
Brockton	26.8	2,489	93,007	320
Brookfield	152.0	457	3,007	38
Brookline	10.4	570	54,896	346
Buckland	16.6	33	1,989	340
Burlington	41.2	1,029	24,985	275
Cambridge	9.2	969	105,596	348
Canton	33.0	728	22,048	301
Carlisle	45.1	220	4,874	257
Carver	87.6	1,014	11,574	119
Charlemont	136.4	188	1,378	53
Charlton	105.8	1,332	12,585	90
Chatham	81.2	544	6,701	136
Chelmsford	45.0	1,550	34,409	258
Chelsea	9.4	389	41,577	347
Cheshire	159.9	530	3,314	31
Chester	90.1	116	1,287	115
Chesterfield	350.2	451	1,288	1
Chicopee	55.1	3,029	54,941	216
Chilmark	162.7	158	971	30
Clarksburg	100.1	162	1,619	100
Clinton	61.5	859	13,965	194
Cohasset	42.3	303	7,169	268
Colrain	165.0	310	1,879	29
Concord	33.1	577	17,450	300
Conway	171.4	325	1,896	25
Cummington	135.9	131	964	54
Dalton	106.0	699	6,593	88
Danvers	48.2	1,289	26,762	247
Dartmouth	68.4	2,320	33,899	166
Dedham	34.8	857	24,630	297
Deerfield	137.4	645	4,694	50
Dennis	55.2	847	15,349	214
Dighton	91.9	618	6,724	112
Douglas	101.8	810	7,955	96
Dover	60.9	344	5,644	201
Dracut	50.6	1,494	29,501	233
Dudley	84.2	932	11,073	128
Dunstable	78.2	260	3,323	147
Duxbury	53.4	774	14,496	219
East Bridgewater	85.0	1,190	13,996	126
East Brookfield	141.0	290	2,057	46
Eastham	103.5	563	5,438	94
Easthampton	67.7	1,097	16,195	169
East Longmeadow	61.2	938	15,332	199
Easton	45.0	1,045	23,209	259
Edgartown	109.1	429	3,932	82
Egremont	68.1	92	1,351	168
Erving	157.2	244	1,552	35
Essex	80.1	267	3,333	138
Everett	18.5	691	37,353	337
Fairhaven	70.9	1,143	16,112	160
Fall River	23.5	2,137	90,931	328
Falmouth	52.4	1,735	33,123	226
Fitchburg	42.4	1,705	40,239	266
Florida	53.3	36	675	220
Foxborough	46.4	758	16,347	255
Framingham	28.1	1,821	64,885	316
Franklin	39.8	1,279	32,148	280
Freetown	105.2	950	9,027	91
Gardner	56.8	1,174	20,682	209
Georgetown	65.4	564	8,629	176
Gill	140.5	195	1,388	47
Gloucester	49.1	1,486	30,243	238
Goshen	181.7	177	974	19
Gosnold	253.0	21	83	4
Grafton	58.8	1,032	17,553	205
Granby	120.5	757	6,281	70
Granville	195.1	329	1,686	12
Great Barrington	67.6	499	7,379	170
Greenfield	70.4	1,255	17,828	162
Groton	61.4	653	10,632	195
Groveland	67.2	484	7,198	171
Hadley	109.3	517	4,732	80
Halifax	78.8	606	7,692	145
Hamilton	48.9	399	8,155	242
Hampden	99.4	537	5,400	103
Hancock	102.5	114	1,112	95
Hanover	55.2	772	13,995	215
Hanson	79.1	793	10,019	144
Hardwick	185.0	490	2,649	17
Harvard	59.3	356	6,006	203
Harwich	77.5	953	12,298	150
Hatfield	149.4	482	3,227	39
Haverhill	37.3	2,284	61,275	289
Hawley	207.7	70	337	8
Heath	190.5	152	798	15
Hingham	37.9	855	22,561	285
Hinsdale	175.1	335	1,913	22
Holbrook	37.6	400	10,644	288
Holden	64.4	1,070	16,608	181
Holland	134.0	339	2,529	55
Holliston	52.9	735	13,901	221
Holyoke	36.2	1,447	39,947	292
Hopedale	52.4	322	6,142	225
Hopkinton	51.5	738	14,338	229
Hubbardston	138.1	619	4,482	49
Hudson	44.1	864	19,597	262
Hull	18.4	203	11,041	338
Huntington	198.3	440	2,219	10
Ipswich	61.4	811	13,219	196
Kingston	65.1	803	12,328	177
Lakeville	94.5	994	10,515	107
Lancaster	79.3	556	7,015	142
Lanesborough	174.8	501	2,866	23
Lawrence	14.4	1,007	70,014	345
Lee	133.1	767	5,763	57
Leicester	76.4	840	10,990	153
Lenox	87.5	446	5,095	120
Leominster	43.9	1,801	41,055	263
Leverett	103.8	184	1,772	93
Lexington	22.2	673	30,272	331
Leyden	159.8	128	801	32
Lincoln	38.0	307	8,078	284
Littleton	58.9	513	8,711	204
Longmeadow	49.5	759	15,329	237
Lowell	16.7	1,732	103,615	339
Ludlow	81.3	1,823	22,410	135
Lunenburg	79.6	792	9,946	140
Lynn	24.7	2,144	86,957	326
Lynnfield	53.9	615	11,412	217
Malden	20.4	1,133	55,597	336
Manchester-by-the-Sea	47.1	248	5,260	251
Mansfield	29.9	717	23,969	308
Marblehead	41.6	830	19,951	272
Marion	92.3	475	5,148	111
Marlborough	27.1	1,027	37,932	319
Marshfield	57.9	1,432	24,735	206
Mashpee	63.9	909	14,227	184
Mattapoisett	61.6	398	6,463	193
Maynard	46.6	474	10,182	254
Medfield	36.2	444	12,275	293
Medford	27.4	1,522	55,573	318
Medway	48.1	615	12,785	248
Melrose	32.3	863	26,708	302
Mendon	88.2	508	5,762	117
Merrimac	65.8	428	6,504	175
Methuen	41.2	1,816	44,055	274
Middleborough	95.3	2,013	21,117	106
Middlefield	202.9	113	557	9
Middleton	63.9	616	9,634	183
Milford	48.7	1,327	27,246	243
Millbury	78.2	1,048	13,401	148
Millis	66.4	528	7,957	174
Millville	71.0	202	2,845	159
Milton	30.1	787	26,187	307
Monroe	114.6	11	96	74
Monson	122.8	1,099	8,952	67
Montague	92.7	771	8,316	110
Monterey	118.9	113	950	72
Montgomery	2.8	2	720	350
Mount Washington	29.4	4	136	310
Nahant	62.3	218	3,498	189
Nantucket	86.1	966	11,215	123
Natick	31.1	991	31,880	304
Needham	29.2	833	28,560	311
New Ashford	157.9	39	247	33
New Bedford	26.4	2,416	91,365	322
New Braintree	190.0	212	1,116	16
Newbury	86.1	597	6,934	124
Newburyport	38.1	668	17,542	283
New Marlborough	142.6	215	1,508	43
New Salem	182.8	181	990	18
Newton	15.8	1,299	82,139	343
Norfolk	48.4	534	11,029	245
North Adams	64.5	884	13,711	180
Northampton	41.2	1,170	28,379	273
North Andover	28.7	789	27,522	312
North Attleborough	46.7	1,297	27,794	253
Northborough	40.7	596	14,646	276
Northbridge	61.2	880	14,383	198
North Brookfield	121.2	586	4,833	68
Northfield	130.2	394	3,026	61
North Reading	63.0	914	14,518	186
Norton	48.9	939	19,186	241
Norwell	47.6	490	10,293	249
Norwood	30.7	867	28,211	306
Oak Bluffs	79.8	298	3,735	139
Oakham	193.3	370	1,914	13
Orange	112.5	865	7,688	78
Orleans	87.3	547	6,269	122
Otis	100.3	140	1,396	99
Oxford	76.0	1,035	13,615	154
Palmer	108.9	1,408	12,933	83
Paxton	87.9	407	4,632	118
Peabody	33.4	1,712	51,331	299
Pelham	77.2	107	1,386	152
Pembroke	53.6	1,003	18,714	218
Pepperell	81.6	929	11,382	133
Peru	264.4	220	832	3
Petersham	166.1	214	1,288	28
Phillipston	173.5	310	1,787	24
Pittsfield	62.3	2,657	42,652	190
Plainfield	140.4	83	591	48
Plainville	70.3	577	8,204	165
Plymouth	64.2	3,579	55,705	182
Plympton	123.9	345	2,785	66
Princeton	114.5	398	3,475	76
Provincetown	50.7	171	3,376	232
Quincy	24.2	2,232	92,339	327
Randolph	25.9	780	30,082	323
Raynham	78.6	1,066	13,566	146
Reading	36.3	837	23,052	291
Rehoboth	79.3	910	11,474	141
Revere	21.2	1,279	60,204	333
Richmond	113.9	179	1,572	77
Rochester	129.3	681	5,268	63
Rockland	49.0	877	17,883	240
Rockport	52.3	398	7,612	227
Rowe	120.7	42	348	69
Rowley	76.0	436	5,738	155
Royalston	192.6	265	1,376	14
Russell	141.4	243	1,719	45
Rutland	82.2	649	7,899	131
Salem	27.5	1,135	41,256	317
Salisbury	62.6	527	8,417	187
Sandisfield	143.9	122	848	41
Sandwich	61.8	1,244	20,129	192
Saugus	46.3	1,273	27,478	256
Savoy	224.4	162	722	5
Scituate	49.7	891	17,926	236
Seekonk	43.3	588	13,575	264
Sharon	26.7	463	17,373	321
Sheffield	141.7	469	3,309	44
Shelburne	212.8	433	2,035	6
Sherborn	62.6	263	4,204	188
Shirley	61.2	484	7,904	197
Shrewsbury	42.3	1,414	33,435	267
Shutesbury	85.0	157	1,847	127
Somerset	56.7	1,023	18,055	210
Somerville	16.0	1,209	75,662	342
Southampton	132.2	789	5,970	59
Southborough	48.2	462	9,583	246
Southbridge	52.5	885	16,852	224
South Hadley	70.4	1,213	17,241	164
Southwick	119.4	1,143	9,571	71
Spencer	99.6	1,188	11,922	102
Springfield	28.5	4,295	150,640	314
Sterling	85.4	672	7,865	125
Stockbridge	90.2	200	2,217	114
Stoneham	42.2	906	21,471	269
Stoughton	36.0	969	26,927	295
Stow	68.4	441	6,446	167
Sturbridge	89.1	811	9,103	116
Sudbury	29.9	514	17,207	309
Sunderland	66.8	248	3,710	173
Sutton	114.5	1,034	9,028	75
Swampscott	37.7	525	13,944	287
Swansea	70.4	1,137	16,155	163
Taunton	52.6	2,928	55,702	223
Templeton	107.9	845	7,831	84
Tewksbury	51.3	1,515	29,543	230
Tisbury	49.1	187	3,811	239
Tolland	181.6	83	457	20
Topsfield	59.3	359	6,051	202
Townsend	72.4	681	9,400	158
Truro	132.7	282	2,125	58
Tyngsborough	57.3	689	12,019	208
Tyringham	271.4	92	339	2
Upton	95.5	629	6,584	105
Uxbridge	92.7	1,175	12,672	109
Wakefield	41.7	1,030	24,717	271
Wales	166.9	314	1,881	27
Walpole	36.1	836	23,133	294
Waltham	22.8	1,375	60,236	329
Ware	133.4	1,311	9,824	56
Wareham	90.9	1,929	21,221	113
Warren	124.1	629	5,068	65
Warwick	157.5	118	749	34
Washington	125.5	68	542	64
Watertown	16.3	527	32,365	341
Wayland	40.0	520	12,996	279
Webster	56.5	941	16,655	211
Wellesley	21.0	573	27,244	334
Wellfleet	94.3	257	2,724	108
Wendell	101.0	101	1,000	98
Wenham	49.9	239	4,788	234
Westborough	40.3	744	18,467	278
West Boylston	55.7	461	8,277	213
West Bridgewater	82.6	551	6,674	130
West Brookfield	131.4	500	3,806	60
Westfield	83.4	3,385	40,608	129
Westford	47.6	1,050	22,066	250
Westhampton	149.1	235	1,576	40
Westminster	107.3	793	7,391	86
West Newbury	75.7	323	4,269	156
Weston	38.5	451	11,711	282
Westport	99.9	1,540	15,417	101
West Springfield	64.6	1,774	27,459	179
West Stockbridge	106.8	153	1,432	87
West Tisbury	80.7	213	2,638	137
Westwood	25.6	363	14,189	325
Weymouth	28.2	1,500	53,261	315
Whately	154.5	242	1,566	36
Whitman	51.5	744	14,447	228
Wilbraham	67.1	937	13,970	172
Williamsburg	107.6	270	2,509	85
Williamstown	48.7	388	7,968	244
Wilmington	62.2	1,346	21,649	191
Winchendon	87.3	887	10,164	121
Winchester	31.2	658	21,090	303
Windsor	209.2	177	846	7
Winthrop	30.8	673	21,880	305
Woburn	37.7	1,389	36,871	286
Worcester	21.9	3,839	175,011	332
Worthington	197.3	251	1,272	11
Wrentham	65.0	724	11,133	178
Yarmouth	57.4	1,365	23,778	207

SOURCE: Criminal History Systems Board