About Ayer

Ayer is a somewhat small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 7,287 people and just one neighborhood, Ayer is the 216th largest community in Massachusetts.

Ayer is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ayer is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ayer who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.90%), management occupations (7.15%), and sales jobs (6.77%).

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

Ayer 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.

Ayer Information and Demographics

The education level of Ayer citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 25.91% of adults in Ayer have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ayer in 2000 was $26,400, which is middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,600 for a family of four.

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

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