List of municipalities in Rhode Island

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Map of the United States with Rhode Island highlighted
Map of the United States with Rhode Island highlighted
Municipalities in Rhode Island by county
Municipalities in Rhode Island by county

Rhode Island is a state located in the northeastern United States. According to the 2010 United States Census, it is the 8th least populous state with 1,052,567 inhabitants and the smallest by land area, spanning 1,033.81 square miles (2,677.6 km2) of land.[1] It is divided into 39 incorporated municipalities, including 8 cities and 31 towns grouped into 5 historic counties which have no municipal functions, as the state has no county level of government.[2][3] The entire area is governed by town administrations, except for areas within the boundaries of cities.[3]

Municipalities in Rhode Island can incorporate as a town or city by a special act of the state legislature, and there is no minimum population requirement.[3] Eight municipalities were re-incorporated as cities operating under a charter, while the other 31 remain as towns which perform similar services.[3] Rhode Island has no county level of government, so cities and towns provide services commonly performed by county governments in other states.[3] The state's cities and towns may adopt one of four forms of government: council–manager, mayor–council, town council–town meeting, or administrator–council.[4] The primary difference among these forms of government is how the chief executive is selected.[4] The Council–manager]] system involves an elected council which exercises overall control of the local government and a chief executive called a "manager" who is generally appointed by the council for the administration of local policies.[5] Council–manager systems may elect a mayor, but they have no formal administrative functions except a degree of veto power.[5] Mayor–council systems have a similarly elected council, but the mayor is elected and yields administrative power. In the town council–town meeting system, there is no full-time chief executive.[4] There are no towns or cities in Rhode Island that use the administrator–council form of government.

The largest municipality by population in Rhode Island is the state capital of Providence, with 178,042 residents; the smallest municipality by population is New Shoreham on Block Island, with 1,051 year-round residents.[1] The largest municipality by land area is Coventry which spans 59.05 sq mi (152.9 km2), while Central Falls is the smallest at 1.20 sq mi (3.1 km2).[1] Rhode Island and Hawaii are the only two states in which all of the incorporated municipalities have a population greater than 1,000 people.[1]

Cities and towns

Name Type[1] County[1] Date incorporated[a]

[6][7]

Form of government[6] Population
(2010)[1] 		Population
(2000)[1] 		Change Land area
(2010)[1] 		Population density
sq mi km2
Barrington Town Bristol 1770 Council–manager 16,310 16,819 −3.0% 8.22 21.3 1,984.2/sq mi (766.1/km2)
Bristol Town Bristol 1746 Council–manager 22,954 22,469 +2.2% 9.82 25.4 2,337.5/sq mi (902.5/km2)
Burrillville Town Providence 1806 Council–manager 15,955 15,796 +1.0% 55.03 142.5 289.9/sq mi (111.9/km2)
Central Falls City Providence 1895 Mayor–council 19,376 18,928 +2.4% 1.20 3.1 16,146.7/sq mi (6,234.3/km2)
Charlestown Town Washington 1738 Council–manager 7,827 7,859 −0.4% 36.45 94.4 214.7/sq mi (82.9/km2)
Coventry Town Kent 1743[b] Council–manager 35,014 33,668 +4.0% 59.05 152.9 593.0/sq mi (228.9/km2)
Cranston City Providence 1910 Mayor–council 80,387 79,269 +1.4% 28.34 73.4 2,836.5/sq mi (1,095.2/km2)
Cumberland Town Providence 1746 Mayor–council 33,506 31,840 +5.2% 26.45 68.5 1,266.8/sq mi (489.1/km2)
East Greenwich Town Kent 1677[c] Council–manager 13,146 12,948 +1.5% 16.39 42.4 802.1/sq mi (309.7/km2)
East Providence City Providence 1958 Council–manager 47,037 48,688 −3.4% 13.24 34.3 3,552.6/sq mi (1,371.7/km2)
Exeter Town Washington 1641[d] Town meeting 6,425 6,045 +6.3% 57.47 148.8 111.8/sq mi (43.2/km2)
Foster Town Providence 1781 Town meeting 4,606 4,274 +7.8% 50.80 131.6 90.7/sq mi (35.0/km2)
Glocester Town Providence 1730–1731 Town meeting 9,746 9,948 −2.0% 54.18 140.3 179.9/sq mi (69.5/km2)
Hopkinton Town Washington 1757 Town meeting 8,188 7,836 +4.5% 42.95 111.2 190.6/sq mi (73.6/km2)
Jamestown Town Newport 1678 Council–manager 5,405 5,622 −3.9% 9.45 24.5 572.0/sq mi (220.8/km2)
Johnston Town Providence 1759 Mayor–council 28,769 28,195 +2.0% 23.43 60.7 1,227.9/sq mi (474.1/km2)
Lincoln Town Providence 1871 Council–manager 21,105 20,898 +1.0% 18.12 46.9 1,164.7/sq mi (449.7/km2)
Little Compton Town Newport 1746 Town meeting 3,492 3,593 −2.8% 20.52 53.1 170.2/sq mi (65.7/km2)
Middletown Town Newport 1743 Council–manager 16,150 17,334 −6.8% 12.72 32.9 1,269.7/sq mi (490.2/km2)
Narragansett Town Washington 1901 Council–manager 15,868 16,361 −3.0% 13.89 36.0 1,142.4/sq mi (441.1/km2)
Newport City Newport 1784[e] Council–manager 24,672 26,475 −6.8% 7.67 19.9 3,216.7/sq mi (1,242.0/km2)
New Shoreham Town Washington 1672 Council–manager 1,051 1,010 +4.1% 9.08 23.5 115.7/sq mi (44.7/km2)
North Kingstown Town Washington 1674 Council–manager 26,486 26,326 +0.6% 43.14 111.7 614.0/sq mi (237.0/km2)
North Providence Town Providence 1765 Mayor–council 32,078 32,411 −1.0% 5.62 14.6 5,707.8/sq mi (2,203.8/km2)
North Smithfield Town Providence 1871 Council–manager 11,967 10,618 +12.7% 23.80 61.6 502.8/sq mi (194.1/km2)
Pawtucket City Providence 1954 Mayor–council 71,148 72,958 −2.5% 8.68 22.5 8,196.8/sq mi (3,164.8/km2)
Portsmouth Town Newport 1640[f] Council–manager 17,389 17,149 +1.4% 22.98 59.5 756.7/sq mi (292.2/km2)
Providence† City Providence 1832 Mayor–council 178,042 173,618 +2.5% 18.40 47.7 9,676.2/sq mi (3,736.0/km2)
Richmond Town Washington 1747 Town meeting 7,708 7,222 +6.7% 40.29 104.4 191.3/sq mi (73.9/km2)
Scituate Town Providence 1730 Town meeting 10,329 10,324 0.0% 48.16 124.7 214.5/sq mi (82.8/km2)
Smithfield Town Providence 1730 Council–manager 21,430 20,613 +4.0% 26.31 68.1 814.5/sq mi (314.5/km2)
South Kingstown Town Washington 1723[g] Council–manager 30,639 27,921 +9.7% 56.45 146.2 542.8/sq mi (209.6/km2)
Tiverton Town Newport 1746 Town meeting 15,780 15,260 +3.4% 29.05 75.2 543.2/sq mi (209.7/km2)
Warren Town Bristol 1747 Council–manager 10,611 11,360 −6.6% 6.12 15.9 1,733.8/sq mi (669.4/km2)
Warwick City Kent 1931 Mayor–council 82,672 85,808 −3.7% 35.04 90.8 2,359.4/sq mi (911.0/km2)
Westerly Town Washington 1669 Council–manager 22,787 22,966 −0.8% 29.52 76.5 771.9/sq mi (298.0/km2)
West Greenwich Town Kent 1741 Town meeting 6,135 5,085 +20.6% 50.26 130.2 122.1/sq mi (47.1/km2)
West Warwick Town Kent 1913 Council–manager 29,191 29,581 −1.3% 7.79 20.2 3,747.2/sq mi (1,446.8/km2)
Woonsocket City Providence 1888 Mayor–council 41,186 43,224 −4.7% 7.74 20.0 5,321.2/sq mi (2,054.5/km2)
Total — — — — 1,052,567 1,048,319 +0.4% 1,033.82 2,677.6 1,018.13/sq mi (393.10/km2)

†  State capital

Gallery

  • Largest municipalities in Rhode Island by population
  • Downtown Providence
    Downtown Providence, the capital and most populous city in Rhode Island
  • Warwick City Hall
    City Hall of Warwick, the second most populous city in Rhode Island
  • Aerial view of Cranston
    Aerial view of Cranston, the third most populous city in Rhode Island
  • Downtown Pawtucket
    Downtown Pawtucket, the fourth most populous city in Rhode Island


See also

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. ^ a b c d e f g h i "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. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  2. ^ "Rhode Island: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing" (PDF). 2010 United States Census. United States Census Bureau. September 2012. p. 18. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e "A Brief Summary of Municipal Incorporation Procedures by State" (PDF). Senate of Georgia. Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Municipal Charters in Rhode Island" (PDF). Rhode Island Department of Revenue: Division of Municipal Finance. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Council–Manager Form of Government". Town of Coventry, Rhode Island. Archived from the original on November 19, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b "Rhode Island Cities & Towns". Rhode Island Government. Rhode Island Interactive. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  7. ^ 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. University of Michigan. p. xxvii. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)

External links

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