Town Comparisons
 
Charlestown
Exeter
Hopkinton
New Shoreham
Richmond
South Kingstown
Westerly
% Population Growth Rate from 1990 to 2000
21.3
10.7
14.0
20.8
35.0
13.4
6.3
% total area protected as openspace
25
29
2.5
17
17
24
14
% total area - development constrained by wetlands
36
39
16
7.6
14
18
% total area zoned for development, but neither developed nor protected
29
51
26
45
71
28
25
Acres per capita protected
0.90
1.8
.01
2.0
.48
1.44
0.18

 
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