Worcester, MA (Massachusetts) Houses and Residents
| Worcester: | $363,600 |
| Massachusetts: | $534,700 |
Mean price in 2022:
Detached houses: $383,463
Here: $383,463 State: $651,570 Townhouses or other attached units: $305,009
Here: $305,009 State: $617,749 In 2-unit structures: $306,989
Here: $306,989 State: $594,808 In 3-to-4-unit structures: $353,918
Here: $353,918 State: $601,912 In 5-or-more-unit structures: $237,685
Here: $237,685 State: $555,768 Mobile homes: $228,248
Here: $228,248 State: $170,209
Total population: 183,016 (Urban population: 172,648, Rural population: 0)
Houses: 85,298 (80,177 occupied: 30,754 owner occupied, 49,423 renter occupied)
| % of renters here: | 62% |
| State: | 38% |
Housing density: 2,271 houses/condos per square mile
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2022: $152,416.
Median contract rent in 2022: $1,146 (lower quartile is $849, upper quartile is $1,484)
Median rent asked for vacant for-rent units in 2022: $1,408
Median gross rent in Worcester, MA in 2022: $1,375
Housing units in Worcester with a mortgage: 19,750 (2,676 second mortgage, 82 home equity loan, 1,926 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 807
Median household income for houses/condos with a mortgage: $120,695
Median household income for apartments without a mortgage: $77,042
Median monthly housing costs: $1,451
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Median year apartment built: 1954
Household type by relationship:
Households: 205,317- Male householders: 35,923 (11,727 living alone), Female householders: 44,254 (14,578 living alone)
25,509 spouses (24,848 opposite-sex spouses), 7,788 unmarried partners, (7,362 opposite-sex unmarried partners), 52,041 children (50,719 natural, 604 adopted, 718 stepchildren), 2,481 grandchildren, 3,589 brothers or sisters, 4,833 parents, 75 foster children, 3,491 other relatives, 11,256 non-relatives
- In group quarters: 14,077
Size of family households: 18,554 2-persons, 11,319 3-persons, 9,241 4-persons, 2,734 5-persons, 1,801 6-persons, 945 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 26,305 1-person, 6,095 2-persons, 2,157 3-persons, 938 4-persons, 88 6-persons.
19,026 married couples with children.
17,737 single-parent households (4,054 men, 13,683 women).
59.9% of residents of Worcester speak English at home.
19.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
10.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
4.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
5.5% of residents speak other language at home (68% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Foreign born population: 50,901 (24.8%)
(52.0% of them are naturalized citizens)
Median number of rooms in houses and condos:
| Here: | 6.1 |
| State: | 6.5 |
Median number of rooms in apartments
| Here: | 4.5 |
| State: | 4.0 |
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 183no bedroom
- 1,1591 bedroom
- 8,7992 bedrooms
- 13,8063 bedrooms
- 5,1604 bedrooms
- 1,6475+ bedrooms
- Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 2,199no bedroom
- 11,9791 bedroom
- 16,6982 bedrooms
- 14,3513 bedrooms
- 3,3514 bedrooms
- 8455+ bedrooms
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Cars and other vehicles available in Worcester in owner-occupied houses/condos
- 1,164no vehicle
- 11,0341 vehicle
- 11,2482 vehicles
- 5,0643 vehicles
- 1,9394 vehicles
- 3055+ vehicles
- Cars and other vehicles available in Worcester in renter-occupied apartments
- 12,224no vehicle
- 22,8351 vehicle
- 10,9322 vehicles
- 2,5603 vehicles
- 6834 vehicles
- 1895+ vehicles
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1831 room
- 3902 rooms
- 8953 rooms
- 3,9004 rooms
- 5,6315 rooms
- 7,6706 rooms
- 4,8797 rooms
- 2,5838 rooms
- 4,6239+ rooms
- Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1,8411 room
- 4,2132 rooms
- 8,3313 rooms
- 10,3684 rooms
- 11,0245 rooms
- 6,5256 rooms
- 4,1137 rooms
- 1,5768 rooms
- 1,4329+ rooms
Worcester, MA household income distribution
- 6,474Less than $10,000
- 9,096$10,000 to $19,999
- 6,715$20,000 to $29,999
- 4,909$30,000 to $39,999
- 6,123$40,000 to $49,999
- 5,349$50,000 to $59,999
- 8,244$60,000 to $74,999
- 10,118$75,000 to $99,999
- 5,713$100,000 to $124,999
- 5,342$125,000 to $149,999
- 6,959$150,000 to $199,999
- 5,135$200,000 or more
Home value of owner - occupied houses in 2022 in Worcester, MA
-
- 339Less than $10,000
- 64$10,000 to $14,999
- 88$15,000 to $19,999
- 125$20,000 to $24,999
- 265$25,000 to $29,999
- 64$30,000 to $34,999
- 18$35,000 to $39,999
- 59$40,000 to $49,999
- 115$50,000 to $59,999
- 79$60,000 to $69,999
- 23$70,000 to $79,999
- 81$80,000 to $89,999
- 129$90,000 to $99,999
- 717$100,000 to $124,999
- 516$125,000 to $149,999
- 854$150,000 to $174,999
- 780$175,000 to $199,999
- 2,779$200,000 to $249,999
- 4,497$250,000 to $299,999
- 9,799$300,000 to $399,999
- 4,983$400,000 to $499,999
- 2,780$500,000 to $749,999
- 663$750,000 to $999,999
- 274$1,000,000 to $1,499,999
- 100$2,000,000 or more
Rent paid by renters in 2022 in Worcester, MA
-
- 160Less than $100
- 195$100 to $149
- 1,253$200 to $249
- 2,529$250 to $299
- 1,408$300 to $349
- 1,009$350 to $399
- 762$400 to $449
- 286$450 to $499
- 957$500 to $549
- 333$550 to $599
- 354$600 to $649
- 595$650 to $699
- 167$700 to $749
- 668$750 to $799
- 2,777$800 to $899
- 3,900$900 to $999
- 11,499$1,000 to $1,249
- 7,735$1,250 to $1,499
- 8,033$1,500 to $1,999
- 2,250$2,000 to $2,499
- 851$2,500 to $2,999
- 284$3,000 to $3,499
- 125$3,500 or more
- 1,293No cash rent
Percentage of workers working in this county: 82.9%
Number of people working at home: 11,362 (11.0% of all workers)
Travel time to work (commute)
- Less than 5 minutes: 3,551
- 5 to 9 minutes: 9,151
- 10 to 14 minutes: 15,944
- 15 to 19 minutes: 14,161
- 20 to 24 minutes: 12,982
- 25 to 29 minutes: 6,221
- 30 to 34 minutes: 12,377
- 35 to 39 minutes: 2,081
- 40 to 44 minutes: 3,224
- 45 to 59 minutes: 5,206
- 60 to 89 minutes: 5,608
- 90 or more minutes: 1,447
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 79,140 (71.6%)
- Carpooled: 10,980 (9.9%)
- Bus: 1,595 (1.4%)
- Long-distance train or commuter rail: 212 (0.2%)
- Taxi: 3,246 (2.9%)
- Bicycle: 403 (0.4%)
- Walked: 3,630 (3.3%)
- Worked at home: 11,362 (10.3%)
- Unemployment by race in 2022
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 7.5%Males
- 5.6%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 4.1%Males
- 8.2%Females
- Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native residents
- 4.7%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 3.5%Males
- 3.3%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 3.5%Males
- 11.7%Females
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 7.9%Males
- 10.2%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 7.0%Males
- 8.2%Females
- Year of entry for the foreign-born population in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 25,7692010 or later
- 14,0622000 to 2009
- 5,7451990 to 1999
- 6,1491980 to 1989
- 2,1941970 to 1979
- 3,168Before 1970
First ancestries reported:
- Irish: 9,297 (8.4%)
- Italian: 5,708 (5.2%)
- American: 4,230 (3.8%)
- Ghanaian: 4,220 (3.8%)
- Brazilian: 3,674 (3.3%)
- Albanian: 3,247 (2.9%)
- Polish: 2,712 (2.5%)
- French: 2,340 (2.1%)
- English: 2,309 (2.1%)
- French Canadian: 2,044 (1.8%)
- African: 1,850 (1.7%)
- Iraqi: 1,630 (1.5%)
- Haitian: 1,419 (1.3%)
- Kenyan: 1,192 (1.1%)
- Portuguese: 1,166 (1.1%)
- German: 1,058 (1.0%)
- Jamaican: 1,035 (0.9%)
- Greek: 907 (0.8%)
- Nigerian: 817 (0.7%)
- Russian: 705 (0.6%)
- Swedish: 640 (0.6%)
- European: 537 (0.5%)
- Lithuanian: 462 (0.4%)
- Moroccan: 395 (0.4%)
- Eastern European: 380 (0.3%)
- Lebanese: 366 (0.3%)
- Canadian: 347 (0.3%)
- Syrian: 319 (0.3%)
- Scottish: 303 (0.3%)
- Armenian: 286 (0.3%)
- Arab: 227 (0.2%)
- Norwegian: 220 (0.2%)
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 197 (0.2%)
- Finnish: 170 (0.2%)
- Jordanian: 169 (0.2%)
- Somali: 156 (0.1%)
- Scotch-Irish: 147 (0.1%)
- Liberian: 129 (0.1%)
- British: 126 (0.1%)
- Cape Verdean: 116 (0.1%)
- Northern European: 115 (0.1%)
- Dutch: 113 (0.1%)
- West Indian: 108 (0.10%)
- Slovene: 106 (0.10%)
- Ukrainian: 101 (0.09%)
- Serbian: 90 (0.08%)
- Iranian: 71 (0.06%)
- Guyanese: 70 (0.06%)
- Welsh: 70 (0.06%)
- Ethiopian: 66 (0.06%)
- Afghan: 65 (0.06%)
- Danish: 63 (0.06%)
- Zimbabwean: 62 (0.06%)
- Austrian: 61 (0.06%)
- Romanian: 55 (0.05%)
- Swiss: 54 (0.05%)
- Israeli: 51 (0.05%)
- Turkish: 41 (0.04%)
- Macedonian: 31 (0.03%)
- Czech: 29 (0.03%)
- South African: 26 (0.02%)
- Ugandan: 23 (0.02%)
- Palestinian: 23 (0.02%)
- Scandinavian: 23 (0.02%)
- Belgian: 22 (0.02%)
- Hungarian: 19 (0.02%)
- Yugoslavian: 19 (0.02%)
- British West Indian: 11 (0.01%)
- Assyrian: 10 (0.01%)
- Slavic: 10 (0.01%)
- Bulgarian: 10 (0.01%)
- Egyptian: 9 (0.01%)
- Sudanese: 8 (0.01%)
Most common places of birth for foreign-born residents (%):
Ghana
| Worcester: | 13.8% (6,747) |
| Massachusetts: | 1.0% (12,327) |
Dominican Republic
| Worcester: | 9.4% (4,594) |
| Massachusetts: | 8.3% (101,767) |
Brazil
| Worcester: | 9.2% (4,508) |
| Massachusetts: | 7.6% (92,959) |
Vietnam
| Worcester: | 8.9% (4,337) |
| Massachusetts: | 3.0% (37,197) |
Albania
| Worcester: | 6.7% (3,288) |
| Massachusetts: | 1.1% (13,076) |
El Salvador
| Worcester: | 4.7% (2,284) |
| Massachusetts: | 3.7% (45,667) |
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan
| Worcester: | 3.8% (1,879) |
| Massachusetts: | 8.4% (103,233) |
Iraq
| Worcester: | 2.8% (1,393) |
| Massachusetts: | 0.4% (4,735) |
Haiti
| Worcester: | 2.2% (1,086) |
| Massachusetts: | 4.9% (60,432) |
Ecuador
| Worcester: | 2.2% (1,082) |
| Massachusetts: | 1.0% (11,727) |
Kenya
| Worcester: | 2.2% (1,068) |
| Massachusetts: | 0.7% (8,746) |
Colombia
| Worcester: | 2.2% (1,063) |
| Massachusetts: | 2.3% (27,810) |
Jamaica
| Worcester: | 2.0% (968) |
| Massachusetts: | 1.7% (21,468) |
Poland
| Worcester: | 1.7% (841) |
| Massachusetts: | 0.9% (10,915) |
Liberia
| Worcester: | 1.6% (783) |
| Massachusetts: | 0.2% (2,812) |
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 104,707
- Other state: 35,063
- Northeast: 20,831
- Midwest: 3,447
- South: 6,536
- West: 4,249
82.1% of Worcester residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37.3% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53.4% lived in Massachusetts.
| Worcester: | 82.1% |
| State average: | 87.7% |
Education attainment for males 25 years and older:
- No schooling: 2,145
- Nursery to 4th grade: 457
- 5th and 6th grade: 825
- 7th and 8th grade: 1,194
- 9th grade: 654
- 10th grade: 727
- 11th grade: 1,713
- 12th grade, no diploma: 1,886
- High school graduate (or equivalency): 16,882
- Less than 1 year of college: 3,142
- Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 6,422
- Associate degree: 4,392
- Bachelor's degree: 13,332
- Master's degree: 4,549
- Professional school degree: 1,505
- Doctorate degree: 1,800
Education attainment for females 25 years and older:
- No schooling: 1,491
- Nursery to 4th grade: 622
- 5th and 6th grade: 1,048
- 7th and 8th grade: 1,018
- 9th grade: 537
- 10th grade: 695
- 11th grade: 496
- 12th grade, no diploma: 1,384
- High school graduate (or equivalency): 20,428
- Less than 1 year of college: 3,924
- Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 8,797
- Associate degree: 5,462
- Bachelor's degree: 13,933
- Master's degree: 7,863
- Professional school degree: 1,773
- Doctorate degree: 1,237
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 25,236
- One, attached: 4,629
- Two: 8,641
- 3 or 4: 22,681
- 5 to 9: 7,055
- 10 to 19: 6,372
- 20 to 49: 3,463
- 50 or more: 6,870
- Mobile homes: 351
Median worth of mobile homes: $127,684
Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities in 2022: 2.3%
House/condo owner moved in on average 10 years ago
Renter moved in on average 3 years ago
Houses and condos
Apartments
- 56.3%Utility gas
- 21.9%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 15.0%Electricity
- 3.7%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 1.3%Solar energy
- 0.8%Wood
- 0.8%Other fuel
- 0.2%No fuel used
- 52.7%Utility gas
- 35.2%Electricity
- 6.8%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 3.3%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 1.3%No fuel used
- 0.5%Coal or coke
- 0.2%Other fuel
- 0.1%Wood
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,652
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Massachusetts: | 10.3% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,818
| Here: | 21.0% |
| Massachusetts: | 12.3% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15,332
| Here: | 59.0% |
| Massachusetts: | 51.2% |
