55+ Communities in Rhode Island
17 researched communities across 11 cities, 17 with a legal 55+ or 62+ age restriction. Most are in Wakefield, Westerly and Tiverton.
Rhode Island has approximately 1.1 million residents, with its population dominated by the Providence metro. Research identified 17 communities -- a real, if modest, active-adult market dominated by small, locally branded condo and attached-home communities rather than national-brand product, with the Providence metro proper producing surprisingly thin results relative to its population.
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Rhode Island community directory
17 communities
Bailey Brook
Middletown, RI · Newport County
Attached / townhome
Parks and natural open space
Bella Vista
Chepachet, RI · Providence County
Attached / townhome
Price: Priced in the mid-$300,000s to mid-$400,000s for resale units, per 55places.com
Clubhouse with exercise room · Gazebo · Full basements
Champlin Woods Condominiums
Westerly, RI · Washington County
Condo
Heated saltwater pool
Countryview Estates
Tiverton, RI · Newport County
Manufactured
Fitness center · Ballroom · Gated community entrance
Fieldstone Condominiums
Johnston, RI · Providence County
Attached / townhome
Price: Listed from approximately $489,900 to $529,900 for a 1,830-square-foot, 2-bedroom, 3-bathroom townhome
First-floor laundry · Attached garage at every unit · Outdoor patio at every unit
Lapham Farm Village Condominiums
Pascoag, RI · Providence County
Attached / townhome
Private patios
Lathrop Farms Condominiums
Westerly, RI · Washington County
Condo
Gated community entrance · Hardwood floors throughout units
Laurelmead Cooperative
Providence, RI · Providence County
Condo
Indoor pool · Health and wellness spa · Game room and library
Laurelwood
North Smithfield, RI · Providence County
Mixed home types
Tennis courts · 58 acres of landscaped grounds
Rivers Edge Condominiums
Coventry, RI · Kent County
Attached / townhome
South Shore Village
Wakefield, RI · Washington County
Single-family
Greenhouse and a general store
Southwinds
Wakefield, RI · Washington County
Condo
The Villages on Mount Hope Bay
Tiverton, RI · Newport County
Mixed home types
10,000-square-foot clubhouse · Outdoor pool · Fitness center
Village at Worden's Pond
Wakefield, RI · Washington County
Manufactured
Price: Homes reviewed ranged from roughly $179,900 to $499,000, per the community's own listings page
Pet-friendly community policies
Wakefield Meadows
Wakefield, RI · Washington County
Attached / townhome
Wickford Woods
North Kingstown, RI · Washington County
Mixed home types
Price: A May 2024 sale closed at $681,410; buyers should request current, unit-specific pricing
Winnapaug Cottages
Westerly, RI · Washington County
Condo
New construction vs. resale in Rhode Island
Washington County -- Rhode Island's own South County -- has the state's richest cluster, with South Kingstown and Westerly together contributing seven of the state's seventeen communities across house-condos, attached resale homes, and land-lease manufactured housing. Newport County contributes three communities concentrated in Middletown and Tiverton rather than Newport itself. Providence County carries five communities spread thinly across Glocester, Burrillville, North Smithfield, Johnston, and Providence, with the core metro towns of Warwick, Pawtucket, East Providence, and North Providence each producing no confirmed ownership candidate despite their population. Kent County contributes one community, Rivers Edge Condominiums in Coventry.
Taxes and ownership in Rhode Island
Rhode Island's own Fair Housing Practices Act (R.I. Gen. Laws Section 34-37-4.1) is confirmed via the Rhode Island General Assembly's own statute text to retain the pre-1999 'significant facilities and services' two-prong HOPA formulation, joining Iowa, West Virginia, Nebraska, South Dakota, and New Hampshire in the pre-1999 bucket against North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Maine's modern/post-1999 formulation -- notably, the statute's most recent amendment (2009) postdates most of the other pre-1999-bucket states' own current text, suggesting a deliberate retention rather than an oversight. None of the major national active-adult builder brands has a confirmed Rhode Island presence; Wakefield Meadows could be mistaken for a Del Webb community, but it is genuinely built by Pulte Homes. Rhode Island's ROC-USA resident-owned manufactured-home sector (12 communities statewide via the Cooperative Development Institute) is real and sizable but structurally distinct from, and does not overlap with, the state's separate, corporately-owned age-restricted land-lease communities -- a two-track structure.
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