Easton is a medium-sized town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 22,299 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Easton is the 81st largest community in Massachusetts.

Easton is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.25% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Easton is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Easton who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.88%), sales jobs (13.68%), and management occupations (13.04%).

Easton is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Easton enrolled in college, Easton has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.

In addition, Easton is home to many people who could 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.

Because of many things, Easton is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Easton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Easton perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

As is often the case in a small town, Easton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Easton Information and Demographics

The citizens of Easton are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 39.61% of adults in Easton have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Easton in 2000 was $30,732, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,928 for a family of four. However, Easton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Easton home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Easton is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Easton include Irish, Italian, English, German, Portuguese, French, Polish, Scottish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Easton is English.