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Cambridge, MA real estate and demographic information

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Cambridge zip codes02139, 02138, 02142, 02140, 02141, 02163

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POPULATION
101,355

Cambridge, MA Information

CAMBRIDGE INFORMATION DETAILS
POPULATION 101,355
NUMBER OF HOMES AND APARTMENTS 44,725
CAMBRIDGE HOME OWNERSHIP
% OWNER OCCUPIED 30.71%
% RENTER OCCUPIED 64.57%
% VACANT 4.72%
TYPE OF CAMBRIDGE HOMES
SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED 8.80%
ROWHOUSES AND ATTACHED HOMES 5.82%
SMALL APARTMENT BUILDINGS 35.17%
COMPLEXES OR HIGH RISE APARTMENTS 50.12%
MOBILE HOMES 0.06%
OTHER 0.03%
SIZE OF CAMBRIDGE HOMES
NO BEDROOM 7.34%
1 BEDROOM 30.45%
2 BEDROOMS 35.74%
3 BEDROOMS 17.22%
4 BEDROOMS 5.73%
5 OR MORE BEDROOMS 3.52%
AGE OF HOMES
NEWER HOMES (1995 OR LATER) 2.90%
ESTABLISHED, BUT NOT OLD HOMES (1970-1994) 18.34%
WELL-ESTABLISHED, OLD HOMES (1940-1969) 22.61%
HISTORIC (1939 OR BEFORE) 56.15%


CAMBRIDGE REAL ESTATE INFORMATION DETAILS
MEDIAN HOME VALUE $595,502
MEDIAN RENTAL PRICE $1,424
HOME VALUE RANGE
$0-$90,000 0.95%
$90,001-$180,000 1.23%
$180,001-$359,000 15.87%
$359,001-$539,000 26.12%
$539,001-$718,000 18.44%
$718,001-$898,000 11.39%
$898,001-$1,348,000 14.76%
$1,348,001-$1,796,000 5.48%
> $1,796,000 5.76%


PEOPLE OF Cambridge DETAILS
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
UNDER 5 YEARS 4.13%
5 TO 17 9.11%
18 TO 24 21.34%
25 TO 34 24.60%
35 TO 54 24.94%
55 TO 64 6.69%
65 YEARS AND OVER 9.20%
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF ADULTS
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 89.53%
COLLEGE GRADUATES 65.13%
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME $47,979
PER CAPITA INCOME $31,156
INDIVIDUALS BELOW POVERTY LEVEL 12.94%
INDUSTRIES PEOPLE WORK IN Education (27.65%), Professional, scientific, and technical services (16.84%), Healthcare (11.30%), Information Technology (7.18%), Retail (5.86%), Manufacturing (5.12%), Finance (4.71%), Accomodation (3.86%), Other (3.51%), Public Service (2.90%), Administration (2.41%), Arts (2.06%)
ATTENDING COLLEGE 26.26%
RACIAL MAKEUP
WHITE 68.07%
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 11.88%
AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 0.42%
ASIAN 11.95%
NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 0.05%
SOME OTHER RACE ALONE 3.04%
TWO OR MORE RACES 4.60%
HISPANIC OR LATINO (OF ANY RACE) 7.34%
ETHNICITIES PRESENT Other Groups (24.80%), Unclassified (12.04%), Irish (9.66%), English (6.35%), Italian (6.04%), German (4.67%), Haitian (3.20%), Russian (2.81%), Portuguese (2.67%), United States or American (2.52%), Polish (2.10%)
FOREIGN BORN 25.87%
LANGUAGES SPOKEN English (65.94%) , Spanish (6.53%) , Chinese (3.56%) , Portuguese (2.82%) , French Creole (2.75%) , French (2.18%)
About Cambridge

Cambridge is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 101,355 people and 30 constituent neighborhoods, Cambridge is the fifth largest community in Massachusetts. Cambridge has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Cambridge is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.56% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Cambridge is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cambridge who work in teaching (14.98%), office and administrative support jobs (11.57%), and management occupations (11.16%).

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

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Cambridge has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Of important note, Cambridge is also a city of artists. Cambridge has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cambridge's character.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Cambridge really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Cambridge is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Cambridge more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Cambridge's character and quality of life.

Not only is Cambridge a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Cambridge is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Cambridge are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Cambridge has quite a few people who use public transportation to get to work each day, primarily riding the subway.

Cambridge Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Cambridge is a pretty powerful place. 65.13% of the adults in Cambridge have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Cambridge in 2000 was $31,156, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,624 for a family of four.

Cambridge is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cambridge home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cambridge is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cambridge include Irish, English, Italian, German, Haitian, Russian, Portuguese, and Polish.

Cambridge also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.87%.

The languages spoken by people in Cambridge are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Cambridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, French Creole, and French.

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