Lowell is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 113,608 people and 26 associated neighborhoods, Lowell is the fifth largest community in Massachusetts. Lowell has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.Lowell is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lowell is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lowell who work in office and administrative support (9.22%), sales jobs (7.74%), and management occupations (7.22%). Also of interest is that Lowell has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.73% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. In terms of college education, Lowell is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.33% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Lowell in 2022 was $33,574, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,296 for a family of four. However, Lowell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lowell is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lowell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lowell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Lowell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lowell include Irish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and English. In addition, Lowell has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (28.74%). The most common language spoken in Lowell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).
