Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Beverly
Beverly is a mid-sized coastal city of about 42,000 people on Massachusetts Bay, a place that mixes old shipbuilding neighborhoods, a busy downtown, and the quieter estates of Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing. It is more affluent and less diverse than the state as a whole, with a median household income above $100,000 and home values well above the regional average. 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
- Under 18: 19.1%
- Population (2020 Census): 42,670
- Land area: about 15 sq mi
- Households: 16,915
- Persons per household: 2.3
- Foreign-born: 9.7% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 18.6%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 87.4%
- Asian: 2.3%
- Black or African American: 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 5.7%
- Two or more races: 5.6%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 11.9%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $103,739
- Poverty rate: 9.9%
- Median home value: $621,900
- Median gross rent: $1,683
- Homeownership: 60.1% of units
- In the labor force: 68.9%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by city through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Beverly’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all.
- Total registered: 31,104
- Unenrolled (no party): 20,770 (66.8%)
- Democrats: 7,464 (24.0%)
- Republicans: 2,521 (8.1%)
Sources
See how Beverly fits into the broader Commonwealth.