West Springfield is a medium-sized town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 27,899 people and four constituent neighborhoods, West Springfield is the 61st largest community in Massachusetts.

West Springfield is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, West Springfield is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in West Springfield who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.18%), sales jobs (11.62%), and management occupations (6.32%).

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

West Springfield Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in West Springfield who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.56% of adults in West Springfield have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in West Springfield in 2000 was $20,982, which is lower middle income relative to Massachusetts, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,928 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in West Springfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and Spanish.