About Deerfield

Deerfield is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 4,750 people and just one neighborhood, Deerfield is the 258th largest community in Massachusetts.

Deerfield is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Deerfield is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Deerfield who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.55%), sales jobs (9.71%), and management occupations (9.53%).

In addition, Deerfield is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Deerfield is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Deerfield Information and Demographics

The citizens of Deerfield are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.41% of adults in Deerfield have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Deerfield in 2000 was $24,555, which is middle income relative to Massachusetts, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,220 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Deerfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.