Truro is the least populated town on Cape Cod and one of its most open. Much of its land lies within the Cape Cod National Seashore, and its rolling heathland, high Atlantic dunes, the Pamet River marshes, and Highland Light on its clay cliffs give Truro a rural, wide-open feel that is rare on the Cape.
There is no traditional downtown. Truro Center has a handful of shops, the post office, and town hall, while North Truro is known for its bay-side cottage colonies along Shore Road and Beach Point. Homes range from cottages and classic Capes tucked into the hills to contemporary bay-view and ocean-view homes on larger lots, plus seasonal cottage condominiums near the bay.
As an Outer Cape homeowner myself, I can help you weigh what matters most here, from National Seashore boundaries and septic and Title 5 requirements to coastal erosion, flood zones, rental rules, and how seasonality affects value.
Truro Homes for Sale
Life in Truro
Truro is the smallest town on the Cape by population, and most of its homes are seasonal or second homes.
Year-round population: about 1,700
Median age: 64
Housing units: about 3,310, with roughly 1,010 occupied as year-round households
Median value of owner-occupied homes: $888,200
Median residential sale price, last 12 months (all homes and condos, including second homes; Truro and North Truro): about $950,000
Median household income: $118,984
Land area: about 21 square miles, about 82 residents per square mile
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates (via Census Reporter). Figures are estimates with margins of error. Sale price is the median of residential sales (single-family, condo and other residential, including second homes and investment properties) closed in the 12 months through mid-November 2026, from MLS data; rounded and approximate.
Truro Central School serves the town's younger students. Older students typically attend the Nauset Regional schools, with the middle school in Orleans and the high school in Eastham, and Cape Cod Regional Technical High School is another option.
Route 6 and Route 6A run the length of town. Provincetown is about 10 to 15 minutes north, Wellfleet about 15 minutes south, and Orleans about 30 minutes, with the Sagamore Bridge roughly an hour and ten minutes away, putting Boston at about two and a half hours by car outside of summer traffic. Seasonal fast ferries from Provincetown reach Boston, and Cape Air flies from Provincetown Municipal Airport.
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