Lowell is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 105,167 people and 24 constituent neighborhoods, Lowell is the fourth largest community in Massachusetts. Lowell has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lowell is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lowell is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lowell who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.13%), sales jobs (8.22%), and management occupations (5.83%).

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

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

Lowell Information and Demographics

The education level of Lowell citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 18.12% of adults in Lowell have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lowell in 2000 was $17,557, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,228 for a family of four.

Lowell is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lowell home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lowell is White, followed by Asian. Lowell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.82% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Lowell include Irish, French, French Canadian, Portuguese, Italian, English, Greek, and Polish.

Lowell also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 22.12%.

The languages spoken by people in Lowell 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 Lowell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Mon-Khmer, Cambodian, Portuguese, and French.