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Cities in Massachusetts by median household income.

These 58 cities in Massachusetts rank by median household income from the American Community Survey (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024), filtered to cities with at least 5,000 residents. This is a household-income ranking, not a wealth, affordability, or cost-of-living ranking. Data sortable and downloadable as CSV.

Source U.S. Census · ACS + PEP
Vintage ACS 2020-2024 5-Year
Release ACS 5-Year Estimates 2020-2024 (released 2026-01-29)
Geography Massachusetts · cities reported under PEP
Coverage 58 cities meet the display filter
Last build 2026-09-23

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Massachusetts cities by ACS 2020-2024 median household income. Filtered to cities with 2025 population >= 5,000 and a published point estimate or bound.
Rank	City	Median HH income	MOE	Precision	2025 pop
#1	Newton	$190,304	$8,593	Published MOE	90,741
#2	Franklin Town	$145,773	$9,492	Published MOE	33,955
#3	Newburyport	$139,625	$21,347	Published MOE	19,148
#4	Melrose	$133,953	$14,410	Published MOE	29,597
#5	Somerville	$132,572	$6,106	Published MOE	84,211
#6	Cambridge	$130,748	$3,564	Published MOE	122,588
#7	Medford	$129,540	$7,926	Published MOE	59,834
#8	Watertown	$126,265	$6,062	Published MOE	35,710
#9	Braintree Town	$122,214	$10,045	Published MOE	38,957
#10	Waltham	$120,216	$7,308	Published MOE	65,037
#11	Winthrop Town	$116,167	$10,733	Published MOE	18,647
#12	Methuen	$113,310	$6,977	Published MOE	54,584
#13	North Attleborough Town	$112,665	$5,412	Published MOE	31,506
#14	Bridgewater Town	$112,651	$7,219	Published MOE	29,309
#15	Woburn	$111,185	$8,940	Published MOE	43,962
#16	Randolph Town	$109,573	$5,904	Published MOE	34,948
#17	Framingham	$107,419	$6,244	Published MOE	73,021
#18	Beverly	$106,044	$7,420	Published MOE	43,363
#19	Amesbury	$103,554	$11,632	Published MOE	17,588
#20	Weymouth Town	$102,714	$3,950	Published MOE	59,759
#21	Malden	$100,606	$6,482	Published MOE	66,370
#22	Attleboro	$98,954	$5,600	Published MOE	47,447
#23	Quincy	$98,882	$4,519	Published MOE	103,173
#24	Boston	$97,344	$1,837	Published MOE	672,973
#25	Peabody	$96,657	$3,634	Published MOE	55,953
#26	Barnstable Town	$91,982	$6,360	Published MOE	50,101
#27	Marlborough	$91,968	$9,070	Published MOE	42,772
#28	Haverhill	$88,326	$4,293	Published MOE	68,361
#29	Westfield	$87,753	$5,590	Published MOE	40,546
#30	Revere	$86,969	$10,489	Published MOE	60,141
#31	Agawam Town	$85,421	$6,702	Published MOE	28,783
#32	Everett	$85,218	$7,101	Published MOE	53,572
#33	Salem	$85,153	$5,154	Published MOE	45,381
#34	Gloucester	$83,883	$5,521	Published MOE	30,627
#35	Leominster	$83,816	$6,939	Published MOE	44,194
#36	Northampton	$80,288	$6,084	Published MOE	31,047
#37	Brockton	$80,115	$2,930	Published MOE	106,134
#38	Taunton	$79,283	$6,517	Published MOE	62,522
#39	Lowell	$78,658	$3,823	Published MOE	119,971
#40	Palmer Town	$78,480	$7,854	Published MOE	12,367
#41	Lynn	$75,043	$3,246	Published MOE	104,236
#42	Fitchburg	$73,040	$5,455	Published MOE	42,136
#43	Chelsea	$72,179	$7,994	Published MOE	40,130
#44	Easthampton	$71,673	$6,574	Published MOE	15,851
#45	Pittsfield	$70,582	$4,572	Published MOE	42,909
#46	Worcester	$70,102	$2,389	Published MOE	213,862
#47	West Springfield Town	$69,371	$7,051	Published MOE	28,829
#48	Gardner	$67,518	$8,165	Published MOE	21,483
#49	Amherst Town	$66,968	$7,106	Published MOE	40,920
#50	Southbridge Town	$66,287	$8,373	Published MOE	18,105
#51	Chicopee	$62,615	$6,340	Published MOE	55,310
#52	Lawrence	$60,433	$2,529	Published MOE	89,320
#53	New Bedford	$56,981	$3,070	Published MOE	101,834
#54	Fall River	$56,673	$3,173	Published MOE	95,298
#55	Greenfield	$55,614	$7,382	Published MOE	17,691
#56	Holyoke	$53,605	$3,395	Published MOE	38,023
#57	Springfield	$52,656	$2,452	Published MOE	154,702
#58	North Adams	$47,500	$7,141	Published MOE	12,368

Showing 58 cities in Massachusetts meeting the ACS income display filter. MOE is the ACS 90% margin of error. $250,000+ is an open-ended bound, not an exact median or a tie. The unranked top group is alphabetical. Blank numerical ranks and MOEs for bound rows are intentional.

Source detail for this table

Values in this table inherit the source agency, native geography, transformation, and caveats below.

Source detail: Income estimate

Income estimate

Source agency: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey
Dataset: ACS 5-Year 2020–2024
Vintage / period: Released 2026-01-29
Native geography: ACS place-level estimates where the Census Bureau publishes the field for this GEOID.
Transformation: Joined by GEOID with typed missingness, 90% margins of error, and separate bounds for open-ended medians. National benchmarks use the same ACS release; derived shares carry approximate MOEs.

Known limit: Five-year survey estimate. Small places can have wide margins of error. Bounds cannot enter exact comparisons; descriptive deltas do not establish statistical significance.

Methodology Original source

Source detail: 2025 population

2025 population

Source agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset: Census PEP
Vintage / period: Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography: Census PEP subcounty place records for the included city universe.
Transformation: Copied from POPESTIMATE2025, joined by Census GEOID, and used for ranks, filters, and city pages.

Known limit: Annual estimate, not a decennial count; each new PEP vintage can revise the prior series.

Methodology Original source

Methodology · Massachusetts ACS B19013

Massachusetts median household income estimates, with MOE shown.

The ranking value is ACS table B19013 line 001 estimate, Median household income in the past 12 months, from the 2020-2024 5-Year ACS release. The MOE column is the published ACS 90% margin of error for that estimate.

Census reports some medians only as bounds. $250,000+ means at least $250,000, not an exact income or a tie. These places remain in an unranked open-ended top group, sorted alphabetically. Any bottom-coded medians remain in an unranked bottom group. No usable conventional MOE is published for these bounds. Numeric ranks count all places ahead, including the top group, so the first point estimate follows that group. Point estimates with identical published values share a rank. Rank differences do not establish statistically significant income differences.

Rows are limited to Massachusetts cities with 2025 Census PEP population of at least 5,000 and a published ACS median household income point estimate or bound. CSV exports preserve the point estimate separately from the bound and its direction. An unavailable estimate without a published bound does not qualify.

Do not read this page as a list of wealthiest places. The data reports median household income only; it does not measure assets, net worth, purchasing power, taxes, household size, or local prices.

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