Chicopee, MA
Tracking 18,560 properties across Chicopee, Massachusetts — a community where the median home dates to 1955 and the oldest to 1720. Every parcel mapped with building characteristics, environmental exposure, hazard risk, and ownership history assembled from 140+ sources.
Chicopee, MAInc. 1640
Chicopee is a mid-sized city at the confluence of the Chicopee and Connecticut Rivers, immediately north of Springfield. The city's industrial heritage in manufacturing — Spalding sporting goods, Fisk Tire, and the Springfield Armory's Chicopee operations — built a dense urban core of multi-family housing and mill buildings. Westover Air Reserve Base occupies a large portion of the city's eastern section.
For property professionals, Chicopee is an affordable urban market with a dense, multi-family housing stock in the older neighborhoods and more suburban development in the Chicopee Falls and eastern sections. The military base presence and the river confluence create distinct land-use and environmental considerations. Building condition varies significantly across the city's neighborhoods.
Risk Profile
FEMA flood zones, fire protection grades, radon — parcel by parcel
FEMA Flood Zones
133 properties (1%) are in FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas, where flood insurance is required for federally-backed mortgages.
Fire Protection Grades
Fire protection grades reflect proximity to fire stations and hydrant infrastructure. Grade affects insurance pricing in every New England state.
The Property Landscape
18,560 properties · Median year built 1955 · Avg 2,340 sf
Property Types
Construction by Era
Architectural Styles
Market Activity
Recorded transactions from Hampden County Registry of Deeds
NE Provenance tracks recorded deeds, mortgages, and liens for 100% of Chicopee properties. Ownership intelligence includes transaction history, entity detection, portfolio identification, and lien analysis — assembled from public registry records into a single property-level profile.
Living in Chicopee
Hampden County · Massachusetts
Chicopee covers 23.9 square miles in Hampden County, Massachusetts. The median assessed property value is $264K.
Single-family homes account for 11,291 of Chicopee's 18,560 properties and 4,460 multi-family buildings. There are 676 commercial properties and 944 parcels of vacant land. About 69% of properties are owner-occupied, and 3% are owned by someone out of state.
Assessed values range widely — the middle 50% of properties fall between $219K and $313K, with the highest assessed property at $146.3M. For professionals working in this market, the value spread tells you a lot about what you'll encounter door to door.
Most of Chicopee (96%) is on municipal sewer. Electric service is provided by CITY OF CHICOPEE - (MA). 1,330 properties have identified commercial activity — restaurants, retail, professional offices, and services that give Chicopee its character.
Environmental note: Chicopee has an average EPA lead paint indicator at the 59th percentile nationally, consistent with 762 properties built before 1900 when lead paint was standard. 10,357 properties exceed at least one EPA environmental justice threshold — a factor in lending compliance and environmental due diligence.
What Chicopee Property Intelligence Means for Professionals
Insurance & Underwriting
Chicopee's fire protection grade distribution (2,453 Grade A, 11,866 Grade B) directly affects premium calculation. Parcel-level hazard data provides the granularity that ZIP-level aggregation misses.
Insurance solutionsReal Estate & Appraisal
Chicopee's 10 property types, spanning construction from 1720 to present, require local market knowledge for accurate comparable selection and valuation. NEP assembles building characteristics, environmental exposure, and condition signals into a single property profile.
Real estate solutionsLending & Title
Collateral assessment requires flood zone verification, environmental screening, and ownership chain validation. 1% of Chicopee properties are in SFHAs where flood insurance is a federal lending requirement. NEP provides property-level compliance data from public records.
Lending solutionsInspection & Property Services
Understanding a property's construction era, environmental exposure, and building characteristics before arriving on site transforms inspection from discovery to verification.
Inspection solutionsExplore Chicopee property intelligence.
18,560 Chicopee properties — each with risk profiles, building data, permit history, and ownership analysis from 140+ sources. Open any property and see the full picture.
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