Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Wayland
Wayland covers 15.0 square miles of Middlesex County, about 927 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. One resident in four is under 18. Nine homes in ten are lived in by their owners. The median household income is $221,250 and the poverty rate is 4.2 percent. Nearly one resident in five was born outside the United States, and one household in five 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): 13,943
- Households: 4,948
- Persons per household: 2.8
- Foreign-born: 18.2% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 19.5%
- Under 18: 25.2%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 76.1%
- Asian: 14.1%
- Black or African American: 0.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 5.2%
- Two or more races: 6.4%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 21.2%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $221,250
- Poverty rate: 4.2%
- Median home value: $936,900
- Median gross rent: $1,403
- Homeownership: 90.4% of units
- In the labor force: 66.4%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Wayland’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. It also matters at the town election, where nothing on the ballot carries a party label.
- Total registered: 10,548
- Unenrolled (no party): 6,855 (64.99%)
- Democrats: 2,883 (27.33%)
- Republicans: 755 (7.16%)
On April 28, 2026, 795 of the town’s 10,613 registered voters cast a ballot, a turnout of 7.5 percent across four precincts. Those 795 people filled eleven seats: two on the Select Board, the Moderator’s chair, two on the Board of Health, one on the Planning Board, two on the Recreation Commission, two on the School Committee, one on the Board of Assessors, two Library Trustee seats and the Commissioner of Trust Funds. One more voter in that room is worth a great deal.
Sources
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