12 Facts About Hyannis Massachusetts

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

Hyannis Massachusetts provides secondary passenger access to the island of Martha's Vineyard, with the primary passenger access to Martha's Vineyard being located in Woods Hole, a village in the nearby town of Falmouth.

Hyannis Massachusetts has an ocean-moderated humid continental climate, which is close to an oceanic climate .

In 2010, Hyannis Massachusetts had a total population of 14,089, living in 8,406 households.

Hyannis Massachusetts had relatively more multi-family properties in comparison to the town and the county.

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Hyannis Massachusetts is growing 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 Massachusetts witnessed an increase in the number of households earning $10,000 to $15,000 and an increase in the number of persons and families below the poverty level.

Hyannis Massachusetts is home to Barnstable High School, the largest high school on Cape Cod.

Hyannis Massachusetts is the main point of origin for ferry service to Nantucket.

One of the world's first Roll-On and Roll-Off ferries, the Searoad of Hyannis Massachusetts operated in 1956 from Hyannis Massachusetts to Nantucket, with the capability to transport three loaded semi-trailers in any weather.

Hyannis Massachusetts is home to the Hyannis Massachusetts Harbor Hawks, an amateur collegiate summer baseball team in the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Hyannis Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts Port is a ghetto, out of Cape Cod tonight".

Hyannis Massachusetts Port is the setting for the short story Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.