Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Conway
Conway is a small hilltown in Franklin County, about 37.7 square miles of land holding some 1,761 residents across roughly 771 households. It is an older community than most: about one resident in three is 65 or over, and roughly one in six is under 18. More than nine in ten of its homes are owner-occupied, households average 2.3 people, and about one resident in twenty was born outside the United States. 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): 1,761
- Households: 771
- Persons per household: 2.3
- Foreign-born: 4.8% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 31.0%
- Under 18: 17.5%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 95.6%
- Asian: 0.5%
- Black or African American: 0.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 3.9%
- Two or more races: 2.8%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 3.4%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $92,471
- Poverty rate: 3.5%
- Median home value: $376,700
- Median gross rent: $1,696
- Homeownership: 91.3% of units
- In the labor force: 65.1%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Conway’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all, and those unenrolled voters can still take either party’s primary ballot, which makes them the group every candidate has to win over.
- Total registered: 1,494
- Unenrolled (no party): 846 (56.63%)
- Democrats: 521 (34.87%)
- Republicans: 112 (7.50%)
Sources
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