About Pelham

Pelham is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 1,403 people and just one neighborhood, Pelham is the 299th largest community in Massachusetts.

Pelham is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.17% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pelham is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pelham who work in teaching (19.18%), management occupations (11.58%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.08%).

Of important note, Pelham is also a town of artists. Pelham has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pelham's character.

In addition, Pelham 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, Pelham 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, Pelham really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pelham 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.

Pelham is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pelham 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. 97.96% 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.

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

Pelham Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Pelham. 60.83% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Pelham in 2000 was $29,821, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,284 for a family of four. However, Pelham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pelham home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pelham is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pelham include English, Irish, German, Polish, French, Italian, Scottish, Russian, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Pelham is English.