Tewksbury is a medium-sized coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 28,887 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Tewksbury is the 57th largest community in Massachusetts.

Tewksbury is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tewksbury is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tewksbury who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.91%), management occupations (10.98%), and sales jobs (8.99%).

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

One of the nice things about Tewksbury is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Tewksbury Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Tewksbury citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 25.25% of adults in Tewksbury have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Tewksbury in 2000 was $27,031, which is upper middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,124 for a family of four. However, Tewksbury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Tewksbury is English.