Westford is a medium-sized town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 20,754 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Westford is the 88th largest community in Massachusetts.

Westford is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.17% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Westford is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Westford who work in management occupations (18.62%), office and administrative support jobs (10.53%), and computer science and math (9.78%).

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

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

Residents of Westford by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Westford may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Westford 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.

Westford Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Westford, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Westford is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 56.81% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Westford in 2000 was $37,979, which is wealthy relative to Massachusetts and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $151,916 for a family of four. However, Westford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Westford is English.