Mansfield is a medium-sized town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 22,414 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Mansfield is the 80th largest community in Massachusetts.

Mansfield is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mansfield is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mansfield who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.22%), management occupations (14.62%), and sales jobs (9.62%).

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

In Mansfield, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.27 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Mansfield Information and Demographics

The population of Mansfield is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 42.13% of adults in Mansfield have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mansfield in 2000 was $27,441, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,764 for a family of four. However, Mansfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mansfield is English.