Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Middleborough
Middleborough covers 69.0 square miles of land in Plymouth County, about 351 people to the square mile, which makes it one of the emptiest maps and one of the larger populations in the same sentence. The numbers describe an older, more owner-occupied town than the Commonwealth as a whole. One resident in five is 65 or over and about one in five is under 18. Better than three homes in four are lived in by their owners. The median household income is $91,914 and the poverty rate is 7.7 percent. 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): 24,245
- Households: 9,796
- Persons per household: 2.4
- Foreign-born: 4.9% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 20.9%
- Under 18: 19.1%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 91.2%
- Asian: 1.5%
- Black or African American: 1.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 4.4%
- Two or more races: 3.6%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 6.8%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $91,914
- Poverty rate: 7.7%
- Median home value: $426,800
- Median gross rent: $1,692
- Homeownership: 77.0% of units
- In the labor force: 66.2%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Middleborough’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all, which is worth knowing before anyone tells you how this town votes.
- Total registered: 20,342
- Unenrolled (no party): 14,742 (72.47%)
- Democrats: 2,818 (13.85%)
- Republicans: 2,530 (12.44%)
Sources
See how Middleborough fits into the broader Commonwealth.