South Duxbury

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South Duxbury

Total population

3,252

Median home value

$982,000

77%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$212,734

South Duxbury$213k

National$74k

Elevation16 m

Land area11.42 km²

Weather57°F · Rain Likely

Coordinates42.02°, -70.69°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

South Duxbury is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Duxbury in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, South Duxbury had a population of 3,463.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Demographics & economy

Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for South Duxbury, MA from NOAA NWS API.

Notable people from here

Adam Haslett

Fiction writer

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Marshall Strickland

American basketball player (born 1983)

Squanto

Native American contact of the Pilgrims

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Charles Turner, Jr.

American politician, Massachusetts (1760-1839)

Stet Howland

American drummer

George Partridge

American politician (1740-1828)

John Holmes

American politician, U.S. Senator from Maine (1773–1843)

Mark Murphy

American ice hockey player

Peleg Wadsworth

Continental Army officer; Congressman from Massachusetts (1748-1829)

Benjamin Church

American carpenter, military officer, and Ranger during America's Colonial era

Beulah Marie Dix

American screenwriter, children's book author (1876-1970)

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Elizabeth Pabodie

Plymouth colonist (1623-1717)

Gamaliel Bradford

American privateer (1763-1824)

Henry Bailey Pierce

American politician, Massachusetts (1841–1898)

Joseph Ripley Chandler

American politician

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Peter Chandler

American soccer player-coach

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about South Duxbury

Duxbury

Sanborn Map Company · 1945

Trees of the Massachusetts South Shore (Quincy to Duxbury, and inland)

Clarence Hinckley Knowlton · 1933

South of Boston

Theodore G. Clarke · 2010

Tourists' guide to Down the Harbor, Hull and Nantasket, Hingham, Cohasset, Marshfield, Scituate, Duxbury, "The famous Jerusalem Road", "Historic Plymouth", Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Newport, R.I., and the summer resorts of Cape Cod and the South Shore of Massachusetts

1893

Tourists' guide to Down the Harbor, Hull and Nantasket, Downer Landing, Hingham, Cohasset, Marshfield, Scituate, Duxbury, "The famous Jerusalem Road", "Historic Plymouth", Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Newport, R.I., and the summer resorts of Cape Cod and the South Shore of Massachusetts

Old Colony Railroad Company · 1893

Tourists' guide to down the harbor

John F. Murphy · 1893

Official Arrow street guide of greater Brockton and the south shore, including Avon, Braintree, Brockton, Bridgewater, Canton, Cohasset, Duxbury, E. Bridgewater, Easton, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Middleborough, Norwell, Quincy, Pembroke, Randolph, Rockland, Scituate, Sharon, Stoughton, W. Bridgewater, Weymouth, Whitman

Arrow Street Guides, inc. · 1973

In cod we trust

Heather Atwood · 2015

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