List of intentional communities

This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle. They typically share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include collective households, co-housing communities, co-living, ecovillages, monasteries, communes, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. For directories, see external links below.

Africa

Ethiopia Awra Amba in the Amhara Region

South Africa Orania near Kimberley in Northern Cape

Asia and Oceania Australia Gondwana Sanctuary, Byron Bay, New South Wales House of Freedom (community), Brisbane, Queensland, founder Athol Gill House of the Gentle Bunyip, Melbourne, Victoria, founder Athol Gill House of the New World, Sydney, New South Wales, founder John Hirt Moora Moora, near Healesville, Victoria Rocky Cape Christian Community, Tasmania

India Auroville, Tamil Nadu

Israel

Kibbutz Ketura Neve Shalom, Jerusalem

Japan Atarashiki-mura Owa Hutterite Colony

New Zealand Centrepoint (founded 1977) Gloriavale Christian Community (founded ) Jerusalem/Hiruharama (1970–1972) Maungapohatu (founded 1907) Ohu communities (1974– ) Parihaka (founded ) Rātana Pā (founded ) Riverside Community, New Zealand (founded 1941)

Syria Jinwar (founded 2016)

Europe

France Community of the Ark, La Borie Noble Jansiac Longo Maï, Limans (1973–present) Taizé Community, Taizé, France

Denmark Det Nødvendige Seminarium (DNS) Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen (2002–present) Svanholm Dyssekilde eco-community (and book town) (Torup, Denmark). Based on the thoughts of the mystic Martinus. (1987-present?)Jan Campbell, The Bookshop Book (2014), p. 141"Dyssekilde eco-community" https://trap-lex-dk.translate.goog/%C3%98kosamfundet_Dyssekilde?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc accessed June 7, 2025

Italy Federation of Damanhur, Piedmont Nomadelfia

Germany Bruderhof Communities, originally in Germany but spread to other countries since Kommune Niederkaufungen ZEGG Mittendrin Leben eG

Greece Eutopia project (community) Free and Real

Montenegro Montelibero, a libertarian community based on ideas of the Free State Project

Portugal Ecoaldea Vegetariana Espiral, Cabeceiras de Basto Tamera

Russia Life and Labor Commune (1921–1939) Seattle Commune in the Soviet Union

Spain in Lacabe in Cervera del Maestre (CS) Global Tribe, Andalucia Resonancia Community in the Alpujarra (Granada). A Coliving in combination with the Ecovillage Laboratory

Sweden Ängsbacka

United Kingdom Bruderhof Communities in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England and in Peckham in southeast London. Braziers Park in South Oxfordshire, England Brithdir Mawr in Pembrokeshire, Wales Chemin Neuf Community and Community of Saint Anselm, Canterbury, England Dial House in England (1970–present)See "crass retirement cottage," nest magazine #21, summer 2003, pp 106-121 Findhorn in Scotland Frestonia in London (1970s–1982) New Creation Christian Community (closed) Tinker's Bubble in England in Scotland Stapleton Colony in England (1921–present) Whiteway Colony

North America

Canada Community Farm of the Brethren, Bright, Ontario Flying Hearts Family commune, northwest of Nelson. Founded circa 1970. Home of most members of the band Brain Damage. In the process of closing . Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community near Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, one of the Hutterite Christian Communities that exist in Canada and the United States, formerly in Australia as well. Hutterite colonies, in Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan Middle Road Community, Nelson, BC New Oasis for Life Commune, BC Orthodox Mennonites, horse and buggy Mennonites, with groups in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada, and in the United States but founded in Ontario Poole's Land, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Treehouse Village Ecohousing, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Whole Village, Alton, Ontario Yarrow Ecovillage, Chilliwack, British Columbia

United States

Midwestern United States Bishop Hill Colony, Bishop Hill, Illinois, founded by Swedish pietist Eric Jansson Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, Missouri Dreamtime Village, West Lima, Wisconsin East Wind Community, Tecumseh, Missouri Elmendorf Christian Community, Mountain Lake, Minnesota Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, Cincinnati, Ohio The Homestead at Denison University, Granville, Ohio Jesus People USA (JPUSA), Chicago, Illinois Nottingham Housing Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin People of Praise, South Bend, Indiana Project Neighborhood, intentional community ran by Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Reba Place Fellowship is an intentional Christian community located in Evanston, Illinois within the Chicago metro area Stelle, Illinois, until 1982 an intentional community of the Stelle group Sunrise Colony, Saginaw, Michigan Sunward Cohousing, Ann Arbor, Michigan Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, Colorado Trumbullplex, Detroit, Michigan Utopia, Ohio Word of God (community), Ann Arbor, Michigan

Northeastern United States The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon, New York Bruderhof Communities New York Bryn Gweled Homesteads, Southampton, Pennsylvania Community of Jesus, Orleans, Massachusetts Mariapolis Luminosa (Focolare), Hyde Park, New York The Free State Project, a state where libertarians concentrate their numbers in the state of New Hampshire to influence democracy Ganas, Staten Island, New York Modern Times, Brentwood, New York Mohegan Colony, Mohegan Lake, New York Rachel Carson EcoVillage, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey.(Upton Sinclair was a founder)

Southern United States Acorn Community, Mineral, Virginia Adelphi, Texas Alleluia Community, Augusta, Georgia Believers in Christ, Lobelville, Tennessee Caneyville Christian Community, Caneyville, Kentucky Celo Community, Burnsville, North Carolina, United States The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee Heathcote Community Freeland, Maryland Koinonia Farm, near Americus, Georgia Living energy farm, Louisa, Virginia Miccosukee Land Co-op, Tallahassee, Florida Noah Hoover Mennonites, existing in Belize, Canada, and the United States, but centered on Scottsville, Kentucky Paulville, Texas, a planned community for supporters of Ron Paul Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia Twelve Tribes communities, existing worldwide but founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, Virginia Vernon Community, Hestand, Kentucky The Werehouse, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Western United States , Deadwood, Oregon Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage, founded by the Global Community Communications Alliance, Tumacacori, Arizona Black Bear Ranch, an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (2020) Drop City, Colorado Equality Colony, Washington Halcyon, California Home, Washington Kaliflower Commune, San Francisco, California Lafayette Morehouse, Lafayette, California Slab City, California (–present) Stone Curves, Tucson, Arizona The Seasteading Institute, an attempt to create artificial land in the ocean for libertarian migration. It is trying to build its first seastead in the San Francisco Bay, California.

Latin America

Brazil Cecília Colony

Colombia Gaviotas

Mexico Topolobampo, 1886–1896. Led by .

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