Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Chelmsford
Chelmsford is a comfortable, well-off suburb on the doorstep of Lowell: a town of single-family neighborhoods, four village centers, and a population that has held steady around 36,000. Incomes here run well above the state median, homeownership is high, and roughly one in six residents was born outside the United States, with a growing Asian American community among them. 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): 36,392
- Households: 13,496
- Persons per household: 2.7
- Foreign-born: 12.6%
- Age 65 and over: 18.4%
- Under 18: 21.2%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 81.2%
- Asian: 9.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 5.5%
- Black or African American: 1.9%
- Two or more races: 5.0%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 15.9%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $140,519
- Poverty rate: 4.3%
- Median home value: $565,000
- Median gross rent: $1,959
- Homeownership: 83.2% of units
- In the labor force: 68.6%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Chelmsford’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all.
- Total registered: 27,159
- Unenrolled (no party): 19,217 (70.8%)
- Democrats: 5,232 (19.3%)
- Republicans: 2,513 (9.3%)
Sources
See how Chelmsford fits into the broader Commonwealth.