Community & Data
Demographics
A Portrait of Wilbraham
Wilbraham spreads across 22.044 square miles of hill country east of Springfield, at about 663 residents to the square mile, and it is a town of houses people own: 90.2 percent of occupied units are owner occupied, which is high even for Massachusetts. Households average 2.7 people. More than one resident in five is 65 or over, and almost exactly the same share is under 18, so the town’s oldest and youngest residents are close to equal in number. 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): 14,613
- Households: 5,345
- Persons per household: 2.7
- Foreign-born: 3.8% of residents
- Age 65 and over: 22.6%
- Under 18: 22.2%
Race & Ethnicity
- White: 88.0%
- Asian: 1.2%
- Black or African American: 4.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race): 5.5%
- Two or more races: 5.5%
- Speak a language other than English at home: 4.8%
Economy & Housing
- Median household income: $124,004
- Poverty rate: 4.3%
- Median home value: $384,300
- Median gross rent: $972
- Homeownership: 90.2% of units
- In the labor force: 66.6%
Registered Voters
Massachusetts publishes voter-registration counts by town through the Secretary of the Commonwealth. As in most of the state, Wilbraham’s largest bloc by far is voters who choose no party at all, and because an unenrolled voter in Massachusetts may take either party’s ballot in a primary, that bloc decides more primaries than any party does.
- Total registered: 11,691
- Unenrolled (no party): 7,418 (63.45%)
- Democrats: 2,405 (20.57%)
- Republicans: 1,749 (14.96%)
The remaining 119 voters, 1.02 percent, belong to political designations rather than parties. The Town Clerk’s official results for the May 16, 2026 annual town election counted 12,050 registered voters as of May 1, 2026, and 880 of them cast a ballot.
Sources
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