Carlisle, MA Real Estate

Median Income $100,298

Median Age 43.35

Population 14,376

	Median Temperature
	January	HI 35°	LO 15°	July	HI 82°	LO 60°

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	Elementary: John F Ryan Eugene Vining Frederick J Dutile Hajjar John Kennedy Lt Job Lane Parker Thomas Ditson Heath Brook Loella F Dewing Louise Davy Trahan North Street Lt Eleazer Davis		Middle: Carlisle Public John Glenn John W Wynn Locke Marshall		High: Bedford Billerica Memorial Shawsheen Valley Tech Tewksbury Memorial
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Carlisle is a rural town 20 miles northwest of Boston. Residents of this scenic community that boasts the only working cranberry bog in Middlesex County, participate actively in town government that is run by a board of selectmen and by open town meetings. To preserve its attractive natural beauty, Carlisle maintains roughly twenty-five-percent of its fifteen square mile town as undeveloped conservation land.

Without services like public water, sewer life in Carlisle is rustic. There is no door-to door garbage removal or even mail service. Carlisle residents treat their trips to the post office and waste transfer station as the social events of the week. For more lively activity, residents and visitors can enjoy hiking and cross country skiing trails that are lit by lantern at night. Great Brook Farm State Park and other protected land provide spectacular country views of white pine forests, open fields, bogs, wetlands, wildlife refuges and a landscape peppered with ponds and old weathered barns.

There is little traffic in the circle at the center of town and no need for traffic lights in Carlisle with a population of approximately 5000 residents. This low population of friendly neighbors encourages a community spirit and pride in local history. Settled in the 1700's, Carlisle was originally a district of neighboring Concord, but the community became incorporated as its own town by 1805.

Despite its two centuries of history, Carlisle has changed little from a sleepy community of farms and dairy land. Carlisle has its own library and public elementary school and shares the Concord-Carlisle Regional High School and the Minutemen Science Technology High School with neighboring communities. The towns bordering Carlisle are Concord to the south; Westford and Acton to the west; Billerica and Bedford to the east and Chelmsford to the north.

The town is accessible by Route 2 and Route 225, which link Carlisle with Interstates 495 and 95. In Carlisle, people can enjoy a quiet country life of outdoor beauty and small town simplicity while still living less than a thirty minute drive from the conveniences in and around Boston.

In April 2008, the average home sales price for a single family home or condo in Carlisle, MA was $1,144,000. While this data is collected from the MLS and deemed reliable, it is not guaranteed.

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