Town History

Swansea Government Information

Swansea was established on October 30, 1667, when Pastor John Myles, Captain Thomas Willett and their neighbors petitioned the Court at Plymouth to establish a town. The fourth town founded in Bristol County, Swansea originally extended from the boundaries of Taunton and Rehoboth to Mount Hope Bay. The area was reduced three times, first by the incorporation of Barrington as a town in 1717, then by the annexation of Warren by the state of Rhode Island in 1747, and finally by the incorporation of Somerset as a separate town in 1790. The first state census taken in 1765 showed Swansea's population to be 1,840. The 1994 town census showed a population of 15,100.
AREA: 22.12 square miles /ELEVATION: 42' above MSL /1997 POPULATION: 15,383 /REGISTERED VOTERS: 9.181 (taken from the 1997 Annual Town Report for the Town of Swansea, published by the Lincoln Press Company Inc.)
Please click here for more demographic info from the Fall River Chamber of Commerce website.

Swansea Community Profile  - relevant information provided by the state of Massachusetts: includes historic background information, geography, government, demographics, education, recreation, municipal finance, and lots more (http://www.state.ma.us/cc/swansea.html)

Massachusetts Municipal Association  - Lots of Mass. facts, local government issues and lottery results! (http://www.mma.org)

Swansea Tax Assessor's Website  - http://www.csc-ma.us/Swansea

Public Access to Real Property Parcel Information - http://csc-ma.us/SwanseaPubAcc/jsp/Home.jsp?Page=1