City safety & data profile
NorthamptonMA
Northampton, MA is a 29K-resident city in Hampshire County with a median household income of $80,288.
Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Northampton, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Northampton has a population larger than 61% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $429,700, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 29K
- Population (place)
- Top 39%
- By size
- $80,288
- Median income (place)
- $429,700
- Median home (place)
- 13.4%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Northampton
Northampton posts a median household income higher than 49% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Northampton area.
- Bottom 50%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Northampton
Where Northampton income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$80,288 Bottom 49% higher than 49% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in MA
Population among 78 MA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Boston
Boston, MA
653,833 residents
- Worcester 206,518
Worcester, MA
206,518 residents
- Springfield 154,341
Springfield, MA
154,341 residents
- Lowell 110,699
Lowell, MA
110,699 residents
- Cambridge 110,402
Cambridge, MA
110,402 residents
- New Bedford 101,079
New Bedford, MA
101,079 residents
- Brockton 95,314
Brockton, MA
95,314 residents
- Fall River 94,000
Fall River, MA
94,000 residents
- Quincy 93,618
Quincy, MA
93,618 residents
- Lynn 92,457
Lynn, MA
92,457 residents
What this shows Boston is the largest MA city on this list; Wellesley leads median income.
Highest median incomes in MA
Median household income among the same 78-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Wellesley
Wellesley, MA
$250,001 median
- Lexington
Lexington, MA
$238,444 median
- Winchester
Winchester, MA
$230,198 median
- Needham
Needham, MA
$214,308 median
- Newton
Newton, MA
$190,304 median
- Milton
Milton, MA
$188,529 median
- Belmont
Belmont, MA
$183,137 median
- Marblehead
Marblehead, MA
$182,132 median
- Lynnfield
Lynnfield, MA
$175,265 median
- Wilmington
Wilmington, MA
$168,152 median
What this shows Wellesley posts the highest place-level median income in MA; Boston is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Northampton, MA beyond the headline numbers
Northampton sits inside Hampshire County, Massachusetts, at roughly 42.33°N, -72.64°W. Population 28,540, $80,288 median household income. Median home value $429,700, median rent $1,439. Poverty rate 13.4%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Northampton, 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.
Poverty in Northampton, MA stands at 13.4%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
The median home in Northampton costs around 5.4 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
24.1% of Northampton workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 12.3% in Northampton, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
2.8% of Northampton workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Northampton from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Hampshire County): Northampton's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 13.4% +8% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 5.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 62.7% |
| Work From Home | 24.1% |
| Public Transit | 2.8% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 1 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Northampton?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Northampton right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet MA-NORTHAMPTON · Northampton
Northampton: 22 tagged alerts; lead category Environment Agency flood warning.
- VOL-ACTIVE 22 on record
- MIX-LED 86% uk-floods
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- NEAR-PEER 16 · El Paso
Tagged alert mix: Northampton
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Flood Warnings
Flood Warnings
19
- Weather Alerts 3
Weather Alerts
3
What this shows 22 tagged notices on record for Northampton.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: El Paso, TX (16 tagged · Δ6)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Northampton; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Massachusetts state hubs · Methodology
Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (22 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Northampton, both outside Massachusetts so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside MA (13.4% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside MA ($80,288 here).
Compare Northampton with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Northampton's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Northampton area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Northampton against Massachusetts peers on any ranking lens. Explore Massachusetts
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Hampshire County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.