Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Tyngsborough
Tyngsborough covers 16.798 square miles of land in the northwest corner of Middlesex County, about 737 people to the square mile, and the numbers describe a town that is younger, wealthier and more owner-occupied than the Commonwealth as a whole. Almost one resident in four is under 18. Nearly nine homes in ten are lived in by their owners. The median household income is $144,375 and the poverty rate is 4.8 percent. About one resident in eleven was born outside the United States, and one household in eight speaks a language other than English at home. 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): 12,380
- Households: 4,171
- Persons per household: 3.0
- Foreign-born: 8.9% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 13.7%
- Under 18: 23.8%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 83.2%
- Asian: 7.5%
- Black or African American: 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 7.1%
- Two or more races: 3.9%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 13.0%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $144,375
- Poverty rate: 4.8%
- Median home value: $533,300
- Median gross rent: $1,863
- Homeownership: 86.5% of units
- In the labor force: 72.1%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Tyngsborough’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: 10,587
- Unenrolled (no party): 7,629 (72.06%)
- Democrats: 1,762 (16.64%)
- Republicans: 1,088 (10.28%)
Those are state figures for the whole electorate. The Town Clerk’s certified sheet for the annual town election of May 19, 2026 counted 10,466 voters registered for that ballot across four precincts, and 2,189 of them cast one, which is 20.92 percent. Those 2,189 voters filled fifteen town seats across eleven contests and settled a fire station borrowing.
Sources
See how Tyngsborough fits into the broader Commonwealth.