City safety & data profile
SwampscottMA
Swampscott, MA is a 14K-resident city in Essex County with a median household income of $134,386.
Essex County, Massachusetts. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Swampscott, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Swampscott has a population larger than 22% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $771,100.
Data updated 2026-09-03
- 14K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 23%
- By size
- $134,386
- Median income (place)
- $771,100
- Median home (place)
- 7.1%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Swampscott
Swampscott posts a median household income higher than 89% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.
- Top 11%
- by median income, US cities
Where Swampscott income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$134,386 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 Swampscott, MA beyond the headline numbers
Swampscott sits inside Essex County, Massachusetts, at roughly 42.47°N, -70.92°W. Population 13,787, $134,386 median household income. Median home value $771,100, median rent $2,303. Poverty rate 7.1%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
At 7.1%, poverty in Swampscott, MA runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
The median home in Swampscott costs around 5.7 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.
27.2% of Swampscott 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, lack of health insurance departs furthest from its peer median: 3.3% in Swampscott, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
11.4% of Swampscott workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
At 44.5 years, Swampscott's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Swampscott 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 (Essex County): Swampscott'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 | 7.1% -43% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6.1% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 62.2% |
| Work From Home | 27.2% |
| Public Transit | 11.4% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
What alerts and safety updates affect Swampscott?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Swampscott right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
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Swampscott: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Swampscott; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Massachusetts state hubs · Methodology
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Frequently Asked Questions 5
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Swampscott, both outside Massachusetts so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside MA (7.1% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside MA ($134,386 here).
Compare Swampscott 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 Swampscott's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
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- Compare Swampscott 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 (Essex 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.