City profile · Town
Bellingham, Massachusetts
Reviewed Oct 8, 2026Who leads Bellingham, with the evidence behind the record.
City leadership
- Leader
- Michael Hennessy
- Role
- Select Board Chair
- Town Administrator
- Joseph Laydon
- Appointed to run day-to-day operations
- Form of government
- Select board
- Population
- 15,314
- Census Bureau estimate
- Last verified
- Oct 8, 2026
- Confirmed by a reviewer against a source
- Last checked
- Oct 8, 2026
- The check matched the published record
Source & verification
- Verification sourcebellinghamma.org/539/Selectboard ↗
- Official leadership pagebellinghamma.org/539/Selectboard ↗
- City websitebellinghamma.org ↗
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Record history
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Leaders on record
- Michael Hennessy CurrentSelect Board Chair · added Oct 8, 2026 · verified Oct 8, 2026
- Joseph Laydon Current · AdministratorTown Administrator · added Oct 8, 2026 · verified Oct 8, 2026
Reviewed changes
No reviewer-published changes yet.
Demographics
Census Bureau data for the city
- Population
- 15,314
- Land area
- 5.39 sq mi
- Population density
- 2,841.2 per sq mi
- County
- Norfolk County
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
City government
Budget and contact
- Annual budget
- ~$54M
- City hall phone
- (508) 657-2800
- Official website
- bellinghamma.org ↗
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