Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Dracut
Dracut is a mostly residential town on the north bank of the Merrimack, wrapped around Lowell and running up to the New Hampshire line. It is a middle-class, homeowning town: incomes run well above the state median, most residents own their homes, and the mill-era pull of Irish and French-Canadian families still shows in its history. Figures below come 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): 32,617
- Households: 12,145
- Persons per household: 2.7
- Age 65 and over: 17.9%
- Under 18: 21.4%
- Foreign-born: 10.4% of residents
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 81.7%
- Asian: 5.9%
- Black or African American: 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 8.9%
- Two or more races: 7.1%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 16.3%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $111,539
- Poverty rate: 6.6%
- Median home value: $465,900
- Median gross rent: $1,740
- Homeownership: 79.7% of units
- In the labor force: 68.2%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Dracut’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all.
- Total registered: 25,363
- Unenrolled (no party): 17,870 (70.5%)
- Democrats: 4,628 (18.3%)
- Republicans: 2,624 (10.4%)
Sources
See how Dracut fits into the broader Commonwealth.