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Ashburnham, MA

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Overview


Ashburnham is a somewhat small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 6,372 people and just one neighborhood, Ashburnham is the 229th largest community in Massachusetts.

Occupations and Workforce

Ashburnham is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ashburnham is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashburnham who work in office and administrative support (15.25%), sales jobs (13.50%), and management occupations (11.94%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.96% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Ashburnham is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ashburnham a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Ashburnham has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Ashburnham’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Ashburnham is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ashburnham, the average commute to work is 31.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Ashburnham are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 39.13% of adults in Ashburnham have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ashburnham in 2018 was $47,988, which is lower middle income relative to Massachusetts, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $191,952 for a family of four.

The people who call Ashburnham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashburnham residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ashburnham include Irish, French, English, Italian, and French Canadian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Massachusetts. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 4.3% have Finnish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ashburnham are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 82.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 38.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 16.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Ashburnham, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.3%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report English roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (12.0%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (10.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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