Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Pembroke
Pembroke covers 21.8 square miles of land in Plymouth County, about 843 people to the square mile, and the numbers describe a town that is older, wealthier and far more owner-occupied than the Commonwealth as a whole. Nearly one resident in five is 65 or over, and about one in five is under 18. Almost nine homes in ten are lived in by their owners, which is high for Massachusetts and shapes everything from the tax base to what gets built next. The median household income is $141,332 and the poverty rate is 4.3 percent. 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): 18,361
- Households: 7,005
- Persons per household: 2.6
- Foreign-born: 3.5% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 18.8%
- Under 18: 19.8%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 93.7%
- Asian: 1.4%
- Black or African American: 0.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 2.0%
- Two or more races: 3.3%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 4.7%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $141,332
- Poverty rate: 4.3%
- Median home value: $550,300
- Median gross rent: $2,413
- Homeownership: 88.7% of units
- In the labor force: 68.7%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Pembroke’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. Those unenrolled voters can still take either party’s ballot in a primary, which makes them the group every candidate has to win.
- Total registered: 15,006
- Unenrolled (no party): 10,635 (70.87%)
- Democrats: 2,394 (15.95%)
- Republicans: 1,865 (12.43%)
Sources
See how Pembroke fits into the broader Commonwealth.