Marlborough is a medium-sized city located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 36,255 people and seven constituent neighborhoods, Marlborough is the 40th largest community in Massachusetts.

Marlborough is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Marlborough is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marlborough who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.65%), management occupations (10.98%), and sales jobs (10.09%).

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

For their daily commute to and from work, many people in Marlborough choose to take public transit. Most of these commuters are using the train.

Marlborough Information and Demographics

The education level of Marlborough citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 35.61% of adults in Marlborough have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Marlborough in 2000 was $28,723, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,892 for a family of four.

Marlborough is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Marlborough home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Marlborough is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Marlborough include Irish, Italian, English, French, French Canadian, German, Brazilian, and Polish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Marlborough's cultural character, accounting for 16.16% of the city's population.

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