Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Middlefield
Middlefield is a small hilltown of about 385 people spread across roughly 24 square miles of land in the western part of the state, which works out to about 16 residents to the square mile, among the most thinly settled in the region. It is a homeowner’s town: better than nine in ten of its homes are owner-occupied, households average about 2.2 people, and nearly three residents in ten are 65 or over. Roughly one resident in thirteen 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): 385
- Households: 172
- Persons per household: 2.2
- Foreign-born: 7.8% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 29.0%
- Under 18: 5.4%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 86.9%
- Asian: 0.0%
- Black or African American: 0.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 7.0%
- Two or more races: 8.8%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 11.0%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $89,063
- Poverty rate: 12.9%
- Median home value: $293,500
- Median gross rent: PENDING
- Homeownership: 93.6% of units
- In the labor force: 64.6%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, the voters who choose no party at all are Middlefield’s largest bloc by far, and because the unenrolled can pull either party’s primary ballot, they are the bloc every candidate has to win. Among the two major parties, Middlefield registers about twice as many Democrats as Republicans.
- Total registered: 373
- Unenrolled (no party): 224 (60.05%)
- Democrats: 93 (24.93%)
- Republicans: 48 (12.87%)
Sources
See how Middlefield fits into the broader Commonwealth.