Sharon is a somewhat small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 17,408 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Sharon is the 104th largest community in Massachusetts.

Sharon is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 93.79% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sharon is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharon who work in management occupations (16.71%), sales jobs (12.97%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.81%).

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

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

In Sharon, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.22 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Sharon 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.

Sharon Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Sharon is a pretty powerful place. 63.07% of the adults in Sharon have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Sharon in 2000 was $41,323, which is wealthy relative to Massachusetts and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,292 for a family of four. However, Sharon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sharon is English. Some people also speak Russian.