#1Glocester
Providence County9,979 in 2020·10,612 in 2025·+633 people
Glocester, #1 on this list · Glocester Town Pound · Photo: Swampyank at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Rhode Island rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Rhode Island
Glocester has grown fastest of Rhode Island’s 38 towns of 2,500+: up 6.3% from 9,979 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 10,612 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +1.6%; 11 of the 38 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+6.3%
#2Lincoln
Providence County22,514 in 2020·23,713 in 2025·+1,199 people
#3Burrillville
Providence County16,157 in 2020·16,927 in 2025·+770 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Rhode Island?
Glocester (Providence County): it grew 6.3%, from 9,979 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 10,612 in July 2025. Lincoln (+5.3%) and Burrillville (+4.8%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (38 in Rhode Island). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Rhode Island page.
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