About Boxborough

Boxborough is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 4,868 people and just one neighborhood, Boxborough is the 254th largest community in Massachusetts.

Boxborough is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 92.69% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Boxborough is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boxborough who work in management occupations (16.86%), computer science and math (14.70%), and sales jobs (11.88%).

Also of interest is that Boxborough has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

For a small town, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Boxborough. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Boxborough.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Boxborough is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

One downside of living in Boxborough, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.70 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Boxborough does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Boxborough Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Boxborough, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Boxborough is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 72.13% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Boxborough in 2000 was $40,794, which is wealthy relative to Massachusetts and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,176 for a family of four. However, Boxborough contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Boxborough is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Boxborough home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Boxborough is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Boxborough include Irish, English, German, Italian, French Canadian, Polish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Boxborough is English. Some people also speak Chinese.