Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Whitman
Whitman packs 15,121 people into 6.9 square miles, which works out to about 2,180 residents per square mile and makes it one of the denser towns in Plymouth County without being a city. Nearly three in four of its homes are owner-occupied, households average 2.6 people, and a fifth of the town is under 18. 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) and the US Census Gazetteer.
Population & Households
- Population (2020 Census): 15,121
- Households: 5,754
- Persons per household: 2.6
- Foreign-born: 5.3% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 14.6%
- Under 18: 21.2%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 88.6%
- Asian: 1.2%
- Black or African American: 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 3.1%
- Two or more races: 5.9%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 6.5%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $107,794
- Poverty rate: 7.5%
- Median home value: $456,400
- Median gross rent: $1,785
- Homeownership: 72.8% of units
- In the labor force: 73.5%
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, Whitman’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: 11,930
- Unenrolled (no party): 8,464 (70.95%)
- Democrats: 2,130 (17.85%)
- Republicans: 1,198 (10.04%)
By the May 16, 2026 town election the Town Clerk counted 12,238 registered voters, and 1,347 of them cast a ballot that decided two Select Board seats, the Moderator’s chair and two ballot questions, one of them by 93 votes. In a town election a single vote is worth more than most people assume.
Sources
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