Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Belchertown
Belchertown covers 52.6 square miles of Hampshire County, which is one of the largest land areas of any town in the state, and about 292 people live on each of those square miles. The numbers describe a town of homeowners: 84.3 percent of occupied units are lived in by their owners, against a median household income of $99,089 and a poverty rate of 8.7 percent. One resident in five is 65 or older and one in five is under 18, which is an unusually even split. Figures below are from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Follow the source links for the latest.
Key Figures
Sources: US Census Bureau (data.census.gov).
Population & Households
- Population (2020 Census): 15,350
- Households: 6,409
- Persons per household: 2.4
- Foreign-born: 4.9% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 20.1%
- Under 18: 20.0%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 87.0%
- Asian: 3.0%
- Black or African American: 2.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 6.0%
- Two or more races: 5.1%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 9.1%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $99,089
- Poverty rate: 8.7%
- Median home value: $350,100
- Median gross rent: $1,308
- Homeownership: 84.3% of units
- In the labor force: 67.1%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Belchertown’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all, which is worth knowing before anyone tells you how this town votes. They can still vote in either party’s primary, which makes them the bloc every candidate has to win.
- Total registered: 12,611
- Unenrolled (no party): 8,340 (66.13%)
- Democrats: 2,733 (21.67%)
- Republicans: 1,396 (11.07%)
Those are the state’s figures. The Town Clerk’s own count on election day, May 18, 2026, was 12,658 registered voters across four precincts, and 1,761 of them cast a ballot.
Sources
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