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Demographics
A Portrait of Brockton
Brockton is the largest city on the South Shore and one of the most diverse in Massachusetts. Built by waves of shoe workers and immigrants, it is today a city of color where nearly a third of residents were born outside the United States and almost half speak a language other than English at home. The figures below come from the U.S. Census Bureau; follow the source links for the latest.
Population & Households
- Population (2020 Census): 105,643
- Recent estimate: about 105,080
- Households: 35,610
- Persons per household: 2.9
- Median age: 36.8 years
- Foreign-born: 32.9 percent
Race & Ethnicity
- Black or African American: 38.3 percent
- White: 29.2 percent (26.6 percent non-Hispanic)
- Two or more races: 18.5 percent
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 12.9 percent
- Asian: 2.2 percent
- Speak a language other than English at home: 46.4 percent
Economy & Education
- Median household income: about $77,089
- Poverty rate: 13.9 percent
- Median home value: about $405,500
- Median gross rent: about $1,545
- Homeownership: 57.0 percent
- In the labor force: 67.6 percent
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by city through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. In Brockton the largest group by far is unenrolled voters, who pick a party ballot only at the primary.
- Total registered: 67,567
- Unenrolled: 37,602 (55.65 percent)
- Democrats: 25,757 (38.12 percent)
- Republicans: 3,409 (5.05 percent)
Students
- Enrollment: about 14,642 students
- Schools: 24
- High needs: about 84 percent
- English learners: about a third
Sources
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