About Lunenburg

Lunenburg is a somewhat small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 9,401 people and just one neighborhood, Lunenburg is the 184th largest community in Massachusetts.

Lunenburg is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lunenburg is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lunenburg who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.23%), sales jobs (12.03%), and management occupations (9.92%).

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

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

Because of many things, Lunenburg is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Lunenburg a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Lunenburg has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Lunenburg's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Lunenburg is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lunenburg isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.63% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Lunenburg 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.

Lunenburg Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Lunenburg citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.51% of adults in Lunenburg have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Lunenburg in 2000 was $26,986, which is middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,944 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Lunenburg is English. Some people also speak French.