Editing Pocasset, Massachusetts

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|official_name            = Pocasset, Massachusetts
|settlement_type          = [[Census-designated place]]
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|image_map                = Barnstable County Massachusetts incorporated and unincorporated areas Pocasset highlighted.svg
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|map_caption              = Location in [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts|Barnstable County]] and the state of [[Massachusetts]].

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|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = [[Massachusetts]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Massachusetts|County]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts|Barnstable]]
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|subdivision_name3        = [[Bourne, Massachusetts|Bourne]]
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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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|population_total         = 2843
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|postal_code              = 02559
|area_code                = [[Area code 508|508]]
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|blank_info               = 25-54450
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|blank1_info              = 0616446
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The village of '''Pocasset''' is a [[census-designated place]] (CDP) in the town of [[Bourne, Massachusetts|Bourne]] in [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts|Barnstable County]], [[Massachusetts]], United States, located on [[Buzzards Bay]]. The population was 2,851 at the 2010 census.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2554450| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212191935/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2554450| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pocasset CDP, Massachusetts| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref>

==Geography==
Pocasset is located in the southwestern part of the town of Bourne. It is bordered to the north by the villages of [[Bourne (CDP), Massachusetts|Bourne]] and [[Monument Beach, Massachusetts|Monument Beach]], to the east by [[Massachusetts Route 28|Route 28]]; to the south by the village of [[Cataumet, Massachusetts|Cataumet]] and Red Brook Pond and Red Brook Harbor; and to the west by the northern end of [[Buzzards Bay]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|25.3|sqkm|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|9.5|sqkm|disp=flip}}  is land, and {{convert|15.8|sqkm|disp=flip}}  (62.42%) is water.<ref name="Census 2010"/>

==Name==
The name derives from the [[Wampanoag#Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe (Pokonoket)|Pocasset Wampanoag]] and evolved over time: "Returning from this excursion in the direction of Wareham, and retracing our steps through the entire length of Monument westward and southward, we come to the ancient 2d Precinct of Sandwich, called by the early Indians Pouglikeeste — at a later period Pokesit and now called Pocasset."
<ref>
{{cite book
|last1=Freeman 
|first1=Frederick 
|title=History of Cape Cod: the Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, vol. II 
|date=1862 
|publisher=Geo. C Rand & Avery 
|location=Boston, MA 
|page=134 
|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofcapecod02free/historyofcapecod02free_djvu.txt 
|access-date=6 August 2021
}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|2020= 2843
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
}}
{{See also|List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income}}
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 2,671 people, 1,277 households, and 753 families residing in the CDP. The [[population density]] was 275.0/km{{sup|2}} (712.8/mi{{sup|2}}). There were 2,038 housing units at an average density of 209.8/km{{sup|2}} (543.9/mi{{sup|2}}). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.26% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.27% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.52% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.26% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.52% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.16% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.37% of the population.

There were 1,277 households, out of which 17.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.4% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.0% were non-families. 35.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.70.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 16.1% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 20.5% from 25 to 44, 30.4% from 45 to 64, and 28.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 50 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.2 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $97,523, and the median income for a family was $162,596. Males had a median income of $103,889 versus $71,971 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the CDP was $106,866. About 0.7% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 0.9% of those under age 18 and 0.2% of those age 65 or over.

==Drinking water==
In May 2016, three homes in a Pocasset neighborhood received bottled water, because of elevated [[perfluorinated compound|perfluorinated organic compounds]] in drinking water, linked to firefighting foam used after military fuel truck crashes at Otis Rotary, which connects to nearby [[Otis Air National Guard Base]].<ref name="cct">{{cite news | url=http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20160520/NEWS/160529914 | title=Air Force reacts to contaminated Falmouth water wells | work=Cape Cod Times | date=20 May 2016 | agency=Local Media Group, Inc | access-date=25 May 2016 | author=George Brennan | location=Falmouth, MA}}</ref>

==Landmarks==
[[Wing's Neck Light]] is a Cape Cod-style [[lighthouse]] built in 1849, with a white, wooden hexagonal tower and lantern room on top of a stone house where the keeper lived.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lighthouse.cc/wingsneck/history.html |title=Wing's Neck Light History |website=www.lighthouse.cc |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001207235000/http://lighthouse.cc/wingsneck/history.html |archive-date=2000-12-07}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Barnstable County, Massachusetts}}

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[[Category:Bourne, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Census-designated places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Census-designated places in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Populated coastal places in Massachusetts]]