By the Numbers
Who Lives in Greenfield
A Portrait of Greenfield
Greenfield spreads 17,768 people across 21.4 square miles of land, which is about 830 people per square mile. That is a city by charter and by function, and a small one by population: it is the only city in Franklin County, and the 25 towns around it come here for the hospital, the courts, the bus network and the community college. Its median household income is $55,614, well under the state’s, and its median home value is $263,000, which is a fraction of what the same house costs east of Worcester. Both numbers matter to a student, because they are what a city budget has to work with.
Sources: US Census Bureau (data.census.gov).
Age, Housing and Work
- Under 18: 18.3%
- 65 and over: 23.8%
- Owner occupied homes: 54.6%
- Median rent: $1,097
- Median home value: $263,100
- People per household: 2.1
- In the labor force: 58.5%
- Veterans: 7.1%
- Living in poverty: 15.6%
- Foreign born: 5.9%
Race and Ethnicity
- White alone: 88.6%
- White, not Hispanic or Latino: 87.3%
- Black or African American alone: 2.5%
- Asian alone: 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino, any race: 6.0%
- Two or more races: 4.7%
- American Indian or Alaska Native alone: 0.1%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 8.2%
Who Is Registered, and Who Turns Out
Greenfield had 13,852 registered voters as of the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s August 22, 2026 enrollment count, and nearly two thirds of them belong to no party at all. In Massachusetts an unenrolled voter may still take either party’s ballot in a primary, which makes that bloc the one every candidate has to win.
- Total registered: 13,852
- Unenrolled (no party): 9,227 (66.61%)
- Democrats: 3,586 (25.89%)
- Republicans: 872 (6.30%)
- Political designations: 167 (1.21%)
- All nine precincts vote at: the Greenfield High School gymnasium, 21 Barr Avenue, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
At the city’s most recent municipal election, the Local General Election of Tuesday November 4, 2025, 4,041 ballots were cast against 13,537 voters on the rolls, about 30 percent. That one election filled two at-large council seats, five precinct council seats, four School Committee seats, two Assessor seats and five trusteeships, and it decided a ballot question. Roughly three in ten registered voters made all of those choices for everyone else, which tells you exactly what a single ballot is worth in a city election.
Sources
Population, households, income, housing and race from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Decennial Census and American Community Survey 5 year estimates, 2023, at data.census.gov. Voter enrollment from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, enrollment as of August 22, 2026. Election results from the City of Greenfield’s own official return for November 4, 2025.
Updated as of September 13, 2026.
Sources
- Population and demographics: U.S. Census Bureau API, retrieved September 13, 2026.