Danvers, Massachusetts

About Danvers

Set in the northern part of Massachusetts, Danvers is a small unincorporated community.

Danvers holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 13.28 square miles.

📰 Danvers News Today

• Topsfield Fair Hot Dog Eating Contest Returns For 2026 Patch · Aug 18
• SUV crashes into Danvers, Massachusetts hair salon, customer thrown from chair CBS News · Jul 9
• Thomas M. Rourke O'Donnell Cremations, Funerals, Celebrations · Jul 11
• Ross Dress for Less to Open First Massachusetts Store at Liberty Tree Mall Boston's ROCK 92.9 · Aug 11
• Danvers Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 25

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Danvers Unique

• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northern Massachusetts, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
• Part of the fabric of Massachusetts — one of 248 recognized communities statewide.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Easy reach of Peabody (3 mi) — commute to the city, live where it's calm.

📍 Neighborhoods in Danvers

Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Danvers

• Blu Karma — japanese
• Crossroads Kitchen & Bar
• Mandarin Danvers — asian
• Pete's-A-Place — italian
• Rocco's Pizza House — pizza
• Salt Water Grille — seafood
• Sawasdee Danvers — thai
• 9 Elm — american
• Angelica's — italian
• Brutole

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🎡 Fun Things to Do

• Water Park of New England · Theme park
• Wenham Museum · Museum
• Future Home of the Massachusetts Air and Space Museum · Museum
• Rebecca Nurse Homestead · Museum

Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Danvers

• Danvers Square reviews ★
• 136R North St. · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Arrowhead Estates · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Aunt Betts Pond Land · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Bates Park reviews ★
• Birch Plains Park reviews ★
• Bishops Meadow Watershed · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Bradstreet Open Space · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Bruleys Corner · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Buxton Rd Land · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Carbarn Lot reviews ★
• Cedar Pond Wildlife Sanctuary · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Danvers

• Bessie Buker Elementary
• Danvers High
• Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School
• Fuller Meadow
• Great Oak
• Highlands
• Holten Richmond Middle School
• Howe-Manning
• Ivan G Smith
• Riverside
• Willis E Thorpe

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Danvers

🏘️ Nearby Communities