List of Cities and Towns by Division
Chapter 47 of the Acts of 2017, signed into law on July 17, 2017 established a statewide Housing Court. It went into effective on July 1, 2017 and created a new 6th division. It provides all cities and towns in Massachusetts with access to a Division of the Housing Court as follows:
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Eastern
Division Suffolk County Boston Chelsea Revere Winthrop Middlesex County Arlington Belmont Cambridge Medford Newton Somerville Norfolk County Brookline Western Division All Cities & Towns Berkshire County Franklin County Hampden County Hampshire County Click to print this as a handout |
Central
Division All Cities & Towns Worcester County Middlesex County Ashland Framingham Holliston Hopkinton Hudson Marlborough Natick Sherborn Sudbury Wayland South Metro Division Norfolk County All Cities & Towns except Brookline Plymouth County Abington Bridgewater Brockton East Bridgewater West Bridgewater Whitman |
Northeast Division
All Cities & Towns Essex County Middlesex County Acton Ashby Ayer Bedford Billerica Boxborough Burlington Carlisle Chelmsford Concord Devens Dracut Dunstable Everett Groton Lexington Lincoln Littleton Lowell Malden Maynard Melrose North Reading Pepperell Reading Shirley Stoneham Stow Tewksbury Townsend Tyngsborough Wakefield Waltham Watertown Westford Weston Wilmington Winchester Woburn |
Southeast Division
All Cities & Towns Barnstable County Bristol County Dukes County Nantucket County Plymouth County Carver Duxbury Halifax Hanson Hanover Hingham Hull Kingston Lakeville Marion Marshfield Mattapoisett Middleborough Norwell Pembroke Plymouth Plympton Rochester Rockland Scituate Wareham |