2013 Average Home Tax Bills: How Does Stoneham Compare?

The average Stoneham single family home tax bill leans below the average for the coming year compared to other towns and cities surveyed.

Stoneham Patch recently published a chart listing the 2013 residential tax rate for 27 communities in the area, and some readers suggested that because home values differ from town to town, it'd be better to compare the average home tax bill between communities. Fair point. To that end, below is a new chart listing the average single family tax bill for each community, along with the average value of a single family home in each city or town and that municipality's residential tax rate. (Note that five communities included on the previous chart—Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Malden and Somerville—did not have their average single family tax bill available on the state Division of Local Services website.) Stoneham's residential tax rate for …

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Patch Facts

Five Things: Spring Vacation Ends for Students of Stoneham Public Schools

Check out the Patch Facts column for April 23.

1. Important deadline: Fourth quarter real estate and personal property taxes are due May 1, according to the Town of Stoneham website. Payments can be mailed to: Office of the Tax Collector RE, P.O. Box 80068, Stoneham MA 02180. Residents can also pay online via the UniPay Gold payment system, which accepts two forms of payment including electronic checks and credit cards.  2. Class is in section: Spring vacation is over, as Stoneham Public Schools students return to class on Monday morning. 3. Visions for Vacancies: For our latest Visions for Vacancies feature, we want to know: What would you like to see happen with the nearly 20,000 square feet of vacant space at Redstone Shopping Center located near CVS Pharmacy and in front of …

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