In Medford, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.17 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
For the size of the town, public transportation in Medford is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For Medford, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.
The percentage of people in Medford who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.78% of adults in Medford have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Medford in 2022 was $43,764, which is upper middle income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $175,056 for a family of four. However, Medford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Medford is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Medford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Medford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Medford also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.32% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Medford include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Polish.
Medford also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.48%.
The most common language spoken in Medford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
