Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Wareham
Wareham holds 23,303 people across 35.8 square miles of land at the head of Buzzards Bay, and it skews older than the Commonwealth as a whole: more than one resident in four is 65 or over, while fewer than one in seven is under 18. Four in five of its homes are owner-occupied and households average 2.2 people. 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): 23,303
- Households: 10,458
- Persons per household: 2.2
- Foreign-born: 5.8% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 27.5%
- Under 18: 13.7%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 81.2%
- Asian: 2.0%
- Black or African American: 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 2.0%
- Two or more races: 8.5%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 7.0%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $82,741
- Poverty rate: 7.2%
- Median home value: $398,000
- Median gross rent: $1,420
- Homeownership: 81.5% of units
- In the labor force: 59.1%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth; the counts below are the state’s enrollment snapshot from February 1, 2025. As in most of the state, Wareham’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all.
- Total registered: 19,969
- Unenrolled (no party): 14,109 (70.65%)
- Democrats: 3,540 (17.73%)
- Republicans: 2,048 (10.26%)
Sources
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