List of cities and towns in Rhode Island

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Map of cities and towns

The U.S. state of Rhode Island is divided into 8 cities and 31 towns. Each city or town is a municipality with its own government. Everywhere in Rhode Island is within a city or town.

Cities and towns

       State capital and largest city

Name Type[1] County Form of government[1] Population
(2020)[2]
Land area
(2020)[3]
Population density Year established
[1]
Year incorporated
[a][1][4]
sq mi km2
Barrington Town Bristol Council–manager 17,153 8.22 21.3 2,086.7/sq mi (805.7/km2) 1653 1770
Bristol Town Bristol Council–manager 22,493 9.82 25.4 2,290.5/sq mi (884.4/km2) 1680 1746
Burrillville Town Providence Council–manager 16,158 55.03 142.5 293.6/sq mi (113.4/km2) 1730 1806
Central Falls City Providence Mayor–council 22,583 1.20 3.1 18,819.2/sq mi (7,266.1/km2) 1730 1895
Charlestown Town Washington Council–manager 7,997 36.45 94.4 219.4/sq mi (84.7/km2) 1669 1738
Coventry Town Kent Council–manager 35,688 59.05 152.9 604.4/sq mi (233.4/km2) 1639 1743[b]
Cranston City Providence Mayor–council 82,934 28.34 73.4 2,926.4/sq mi (1,129.9/km2) 1754 1910
Cumberland Town Providence Mayor–council 36,405 26.45 68.5 1,376.4/sq mi (531.4/km2) 1746 1746
East Greenwich Town Kent Council–manager 14,312 16.39 42.4 873.2/sq mi (337.1/km2) 1677 1677[c]
East Providence City Providence Mayor–council 47,139 13.24 34.3 3,560.3/sq mi (1,374.6/km2) 1812 1958
Exeter Town Washington Town meeting 6,460 57.47 148.8 112.4/sq mi (43.4/km2) 1641 1641[d]
Foster Town Providence Town meeting 4,469 50.80 131.6 88.0/sq mi (34.0/km2) 1636 1781
Glocester Town Providence Town meeting 9,974 54.18 140.3 184.1/sq mi (71.1/km2) 1639 1730–1731
Hopkinton Town Washington Town meeting 8,398 42.95 111.2 195.5/sq mi (75.5/km2) 1639 1757
Jamestown Town Newport Council–manager 5,559 9.45 24.5 588.3/sq mi (227.1/km2) 1639 1678
Johnston Town Providence Mayor–council 29,568 23.43 60.7 1,262.0/sq mi (487.3/km2) 1636 1759
Lincoln Town Providence Council–manager 22,529 18.12 46.9 1,243.3/sq mi (480.0/km2) 1650 1871
Little Compton Town Newport Town meeting 3,616 20.52 53.1 176.2/sq mi (68.0/km2) 1682 1746
Middletown Town Newport Council–manager 17,075 12.72 32.9 1,342.4/sq mi (518.3/km2) 1639 1743
Narragansett Town Washington Council–manager 14,532 13.89 36.0 1,046.2/sq mi (403.9/km2) 1888 1901
Newport City Newport Council–manager 25,163 7.67 19.9 3,280.7/sq mi (1,266.7/km2) 1639 1784[e]
New Shoreham Town Washington Council–manager 1,410 9.08 23.5 155.3/sq mi (60.0/km2) 1664 1672
North Kingstown Town Washington Council–manager 27,732 43.14 111.7 642.8/sq mi (248.2/km2) 1641 1674
North Providence Town Providence Mayor–council 34,114 5.62 14.6 6,070.1/sq mi (2,343.7/km2) 1636 1765
North Smithfield Town Providence Council–manager 12,588 23.80 61.6 528.9/sq mi (204.2/km2) 1730 1871
Pawtucket City Providence Mayor–council 75,604 8.68 22.5 8,710.1/sq mi (3,363.0/km2) 1671 1954
Portsmouth Town Newport Council–manager 17,871 22.98 59.5 777.7/sq mi (300.3/km2) 1638 1640[f]
Providence  City Providence Mayor–council 190,934 18.40 47.7 10,376.8/sq mi (4,006.5/km2) 1636 1832
Richmond Town Washington Town meeting 8,020 40.29 104.4 199.1/sq mi (76.9/km2) 1636 1730
Scituate Town Providence Town meeting 10,384 48.16 124.7 215.6/sq mi (83.2/km2) 1636 1730
Smithfield Town Providence Council–manager 22,118 26.31 68.1 840.7/sq mi (324.6/km2) 1636 1730
South Kingstown Town Washington Council–manager 31,931 56.45 146.2 565.7/sq mi (218.4/km2) 1657 1723[g]
Tiverton Town Newport Town meeting 16,359 29.05 75.2 563.1/sq mi (217.4/km2) 1694 1746
Warren Town Bristol Council–manager 11,147 6.12 15.9 1,821.4/sq mi (703.2/km2) 1620 1747
Warwick City Kent Mayor–council 82,823 35.04 90.8 2,363.7/sq mi (912.6/km2) 1642 1931
Westerly Town Washington Council–manager 23,359 29.52 76.5 791.3/sq mi (305.5/km2) 1661 1669
West Greenwich Town Kent Town meeting 6,528 50.26 130.2 129.9/sq mi (50.2/km2) 1639 1741
West Warwick Town Kent Council–manager 31,012 7.79 20.2 3,981.0/sq mi (1,537.1/km2) 1648 1913
Woonsocket City Providence Mayor–council 43,240 7.74 20.0 5,586.6/sq mi (2,157.0/km2) 1867 1888
Total 1,097,379 1,033.82 2,677.6 1,061.48/sq mi (409.84/km2)

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Notes

  1. Refers to the date of incorporation of the current municipal status.
  2. There is a discrepancy in dates from the two provided sources, with the Snow (1865) source listing the incorporation date as 1741.
  3. This date is only found in the Snow (1865) source and is absent in the Government of Rhode Island source.
  4. There is a discrepancy in dates from the two provided sources, with the Snow (1865) source listing the incorporation date as 1742–1743.
  5. This date is only found in the Government of Rhode Island source and is absent in the Snow (1865) source.
  6. This date is only found in the Snow (1865) source and is absent in the Government of Rhode Island source.
  7. There is a discrepancy in dates from the two provided sources, with the Snow (1865) source listing the incorporation date as 1722.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Rhode Island Cities & Towns". Rhode Island Government. Rhode Island Interactive. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  2. "Explore Census Data". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  3. "GCT-PH1 – Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 – State — Place and (in selected states) County Subdivision". 2010 United States Census. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  4. Snow, Edwin M. (1865). Report Upon the Census of Rhode Island, 1865: With the Statistics of the Population, Agriculture, Fisheries and Manufactures of the State. Rhode Island Census Board. University of Michigan. p. xxvii.