Just six miles outside of Boston Beacon Hill, Watertown real estate might be just what you're looking for. The median resident age is 36.7, the median household income about $58,000, and the median house value about $270,000. Occupied, according to archaeological evidence, as long ago as 6,000 years, Watertown real estate has always offered a great deal to residents. This is especially true in the 20th and 21st centuries with Boston's multileveled public transit system.

The Pequossette and the Nonantum Indians lived along Watertown's river banks when John Smith first named the water the Massachusetts while exploring in the very early 1660s. Renamed the Charles for the king of England by the time Saltonstall Plantation was established in 1630, the river was the clearly hearts blood of the settlement and led to its being named Watertown.

What Watertown Real Estate Has to Offer

Watertown's population of some 33,000 live in 15,008 (as of 2000) houses, about 14,800 of which are occupied. Tenants--who numbered some 7,700 in 2000--outnumber owner-occupants--who numbered 6,600 the same year. Most of the houses, more than 7,000, were built before World War II. Construction of new Watertown real estate picked up in the two decades after the war but has slowed since then.

Three hospitals lie within a three-mile radius. Watertown is home to the New England School of Acupuncture, the Cass School of Floral Design, the Polarity Institute and is within six miles of seven colleges and universities. It has one public high school and a private high school for the blind. There are four public and three private primary and middle schools.