Plymouth, Wareham, make "Most Liquor Licenses" list

Several other South Shore towns on top 75 liquor licenses per resident list

Cohassett, Fair Haven, West Bridgewater and most Cape towns make the list

By Walter Brooks

It's a lot easier to get a bottle of booze in Wareham than in Worcester. That's because Wareham has a liquor license ratio of one license for every 556 man, women and child in that storied town.

And before Plymouthians get too proud aboutthat, Plymouth is "wetter" with a liquor license for every every 535 residents.

But the towns on Cape Cod and The Islands make Plymouth and Wareham folks look like a bunch of "teatotalers" by comparison.

Wellfleet is the "third wettest" in the state with a license for every 103 residents and two Martha's Vineyard towns, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown, are next wettest with 128 and 130 residents per license.

Take our poll on this issueSo Plymouth is among the "driest" with 535, and Fair Haven is drier with 556 per capita with Cohassett and Mattapoisett nearly as "dry" with a license for every 552 and 536 residents respectively..

Of the fifteen towns on the Cape, only Bourne, Mashpee and Sandwich are not in the top 75 towns listing per capita liquor licenses.

Cape Cod is a sandspit held together by liquor stores

The list goes on with almost every Cape Cod town in the top 75 statewide. Here's the breakdown showing number of residents per license across the Cape starting with the "driest" to the "wettest":

• Wareham - 556
• Fair Haven 556
• Cohassett - 552
• Mattapoisett - 536
• Plymouth - 535
• West Bridgewater - 513
• Brewster - 501
• Eastham - 495
• Foxborough - 479
• Harwich - 442
• Falmouth - 437
• Yarmouth - 428
• Barnstable - 417
• Tisbury - 345
• Dennis - 291
• Chatham - 258
• Orleans - 233
• Truro - 213
• Aquinnah - 177
• Nantucket - 144
• Edgartown - 130
• Oak Bluffs - 128
• Wellfleet - 105
• Provincetown - 57

And you all thought Wareham was such a wicked place - phooey.

Move to Martha's Vineyard and get blitzed easier.

Boston TV Channel 5 WCVB makes it fun to see whether your town is on the list of the "Top 75 Massachusetts Towns with the Most Liquor Licenses per Resident" here.

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