Hyannis, Massachusetts Hyannis, Massachusetts A sailboat in Hyannis Harbor A sailboat in Hyannis Harbor Location of ZIP code 02601 Hyannis inside the Town of Barnstable, county, and state Location of ZIP code 02601 Hyannis inside the Town of Barnstable, county, and state Hyannis / ha n s/ is the biggest of the seven villages in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the United States.

It is the commercial and transit hub of Cape Cod and was designated an urban region as of the 1990 census. Because of this, many refer to Hyannis as the "Capital of the Cape".

It contains a majority of the Barnstable Town offices and two meaningful shopping districts: the historic downtown Main Street and the Route 132 Commercial District, including Cape Cod Mall and Independence Park, command posts of Cape Cod Potato Chips.

Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis is the biggest on Cape Cod.

Hyannis is a primary tourist destination and the major ferry boat and general aviation link for passengers and freight to Nantucket Island.

Hyannis also provides secondary passenger access to the island of Martha's Vineyard, with the major passenger access to Martha's Vineyard being positioned in Woods Hole, a village in the close-by town of Falmouth.

Due to its large natural harbor, Hyannis is the biggest recreational boating and second biggest commercial fishing port on Cape Cod, behind only Provincetown.

The village is the namesake of the former United States Naval ship USS Hyannis (YTB-817).

The climate of Hyannis can be described as either a humid continental or an oceanic climate (Dfb or Cfb under Koppen).

Climate data for Hyannis, Massachusetts In 2007, the town water was found to contain perchlorate. In 2009, Barnstable enhance works requested that the fire academy[which?] cease their operations. In 2010, Well MD2 had been shut down "until contamination issues caused by the Fire Training Academy [were] addressed".:2 A six-month overland interconnection with Yarmouth's water fitness was suggested in May and constructed in June 2015. In November 2015, the county suspended the Barnstable County Fire and Rescue Training Academy which is up gradient of the wells. but in February 2016, it still remained open. In May 2016, the Town of Barnstable issued a drinking water community advisory, for PFOS and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) of 0.18 parts per billion in the Mary Dunn #3 well, which was taken offline. In 2010, Hyannis had a total populace of 14,089, living in 8,406 homeholds.

19.80% of Hyannis' total 10,922 housing units were cyclicly vacant.

Hyannis had a excessive share of multi-family properties in comparison to the town and the county.

Hyannis had an owner-occupancy rate of 58.3%, which was nearly 20 percentage points lower than that pointed out for the town or the county.

The median value of owner-occupied housing units in Hyannis in 2000 was $149,720.

In 2002, the median price for a single family home in Hyannis was $196,000. 14.6% of Hyannis populace lived below the poverty line.

Hyannis is burgeoning at the upper end and the lower end of the age cohorts, and although there has been an increase in persons 25 to 44 years of age, this has not necessarily been reflected in income change, as Hyannis witnessed an increase in the number of homeholds earning $10,000 to $15,000 and a gain in the number of persons and families below the poverty level. Hyannis is home to Barnstable High School, the biggest high school on Cape Cod.

Other high schools include Sturgis Charter Public School, a charter school featuring the International Baccalaureate program, and Pope John Paul II High School, the first and only college preliminary Catholic high school on Cape Cod.

Trinity Christian Academy, which recently opened a high school, is also positioned in Hyannis.

Cape Cod Community College, in close-by West Barnstable, is a two-year improve college, known locally as "4-C's".

Hyannis Harbor at evening Hyannis is the chief point of origin for ferry service to Nantucket.

One of the world's first Roll-On and Roll-Off ferries, the Searoad of Hyannis directed in 1956 from Hyannis to Nantucket, with the capability to transport three loaded semi-trailers in any weather. Barnstable Municipal Airport (Airport code HYA) is the chief air transit hub for Cape Cod, with daily flights to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Boston, Provincetown, and New York City.

The Hyannis Transportation Center (HTC) is the chief bus and rail terminal on Cape Cod.

The HTC services is a terminal station for Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, the operator of the Cape-wide enhance bus network on Cape Cod, intercity buses directed by the Plymouth & Brockton and Peter Pan bus lines, and the cyclic Cape - Flyer passenger rail service which operates between Boston and Hyannis Friday-Sunday in-season.

The Cape Cod Central Railroad operates cyclic tourist excursions from Hyannis to Sandwich and Sagamore, with some scheduled weekend stops at West Barnstable.

Hyannis Harbor Hyannis Harbor Hawks, the suburbs team in the summer Cape Cod Baseball league Kennedy Hyannis Museum The Hyannis Harbor Hawks of the Cape Cod Baseball League play at Mc - Keon Park from mid-June to early August.

Hyannis is home to the Cape Cod Seadogs, a semi-pro football team which plays its home games at Barnstable High School.

Hyannis Port features in the song "Walcott" by Vampire Weekend, as part of the band's pleading with the eponymous Walcott to get out of Cape Cod: "Hyannis Port is a ghetto, out of Cape Cod tonight".

Hyannis is mentioned in the song "Rock and Roll Band" by Boston: "Dancin' in the streets of Hyannis, we were getting pretty good at the game..." Hyannis Port is the setting for the short story "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Hyannis Port, Massachusetts 2010 Enumeration for ZIP Code 02601, HYANNIS MA, 2010 Census, Population Demographics.

City of Barnstable (1997) Comprehensive Plan, Section 4.0 - Community Facilities and Services, retrieved 4/17/2007 "Profile for Hyannis, Massachusetts".

"Hyannis, Massachusetts Climate Normals".

"Barnstable Town Officials Want County to Shut Down Fire Academy".

"Hyannis Water Dept.

(February 2003) Market Analysis for Hyannis, MA, Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, retrieved 4/17/2007; Market Analysis for Hyannis Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hyannis, Massachusetts.

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