National protected areas

• Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge
  Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge
  Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge, formerly referred to as the U.S. Army's Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex, is a parcel of land located approximately west of Boston, and west of the Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex Headquarters. It is located in portions of the...
  
  
• Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
  Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
  The Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge, is a twelve-mile long river wetlands conservation area, in two major parcels, stretching from the towns of Billerica, Massachusetts to Wayland, Massachusetts , along the Concord and Sudbury rivers...
  
  
• Longfellow National Historic Site
  Longfellow National Historic Site
  The Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National Historic Site, is a historic site located at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For almost fifty years, it was the...
  
  
• Lowell National Historical Park
  Lowell National Historical Park
  Lowell National Historical Park is a National Historical Park of the United States located in Lowell, Massachusetts. Established in 1978 a few years after Lowell Heritage State Park, it is operated by the National Park Service and comprises a group of different sites in and around the city of...
  
  
• Minute Man National Historical Park
  Minute Man National Historical Park
  Not to be confused with Minuteman Missile National Historic Site.Minute Man National Historical Park commemorates the opening battle in the American Revolutionary War. It also includes The Wayside, home in turn to three noted American authors...
  
  
• Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge
  Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge
  Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge is located in north-central Massachusetts, approximately northwest of Boston, Massachusetts. The refuge lies within the towns of Ayer and Shirley in Middlesex County and the towns of Harvard and Lancaster in Worcester County...
  
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Demographics

As of the census

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of 2000, there were 1,465,396 people, 561,220 households, and 361,076 families residing in the county. The population density

Population density

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 was 1,780/sq mi (687/km²). There were 576,681 housing units at an average density of 700 per square mile (270/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 85.88% White

Race (United States Census)

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, 3.36% Black

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 or African American

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, 0.15% Native American

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, 6.26% Asian

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, 0.04% Pacific Islander

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, 2.07% from other races

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, and 2.24% from two or more races. 4.55% of the population were Hispanic

Race (United States Census)

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 or Latino

Race (United States Census)

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 of any race. 20.0% were of Irish

Irish people

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, 15.7% Italian

Italian people

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 and 8.0% English

English people

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 ancestry according to Census 2000. 79.6% spoke English

English language

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, 4.3% Spanish

Spanish language

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, 2.7% Portuguese

Portuguese language

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, 1.6% Italian

Italian language

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, 1.6% Chinese

Chinese language

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 or Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

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 and 1.5% French

French language

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 as their first language. Middlesex County has the largest Irish-American population of any U.S. county with a plurality of Irish ancestry.

There were 561,220 households out of which 30.20% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.30% were married couples

Marriage

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 living together, 9.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.70% were non-families. 27.10% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.11.

In the county the population was spread out with 22.50% under the age of 18, 9.00% from 18 to 24, 33.40% from 25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 12.80% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 93.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.70 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $60,821, and the median income for a family was $74,194 (these figures had risen to $77,004 and $96,325 respectively as of a 2009 estimate). Males had a median income of $49,460 versus $36,288 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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 for the county was $31,199. About 4.30% of families and 6.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.20% of those under age 18 and 7.10% of those age 65 or over.

, Middlesex County was tenth in the United States on the list of most millionaires per county.

Politics

Presidential Election Results 1960-2008

Year	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
2008	64.2% 462,226	34.1% 245,215
2004	63.99% 440,862	34.52% 237,815
2000	61.49% 404,043	30.27% 198,914
1996	63.41% 398,190	27.06% 169,926
1992	49.89% 343,994	28.10% 193,703
1988	54.57% 361,563	43.82% 193,703
1984	50.26% 325,065	49.42% 319,604
1980	42.46% 270,751	40.30% 256,999
1976	55.94% 359,919	40.42% 260,044
1972	55.91% 345,343	43.56% 269,064
1968	64.11% 370,310	32.60% 188,304
1964	76.25% 439,790	23.36% 134,729
1960	59.01% 356,130	40.78% 246,126

Voter Registration and Party Enrollment as of October 13, 2010
Party		Number of Voters	Percentage	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	351,993	37.45%	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	98,461	10.48%	Unaffiliated	484,279	51.53%	Minor Parties	5,156	0.55%
Total		939,889	100%

Cities and towns

Most municipalities in Middlesex County have a town

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 form of government; the remainder are cities, and are so designated on this list. Villages listed below are census or postal divisions, but have no separate corporate or statutory existence from the cities and towns in which they are located.

• Acton
  Acton, Massachusetts
  Acton is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States about twenty-one miles west-northwest of Boston along Route 2 west of Concord and about ten miles southwest of Lowell. The population was 21,924 at the 2010 census...
  
  
• Arlington
  Arlington, Massachusetts
  Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, six miles northwest of Boston. The population was 42,844 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
  
• Ashby
  Ashby, Massachusetts
  Ashby is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,120 as of the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water....
  
  
• Ashland
  Ashland, Massachusetts
  Ashland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the MetroWest region. The population was 16,593 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
  
• Ayer
  Ayer, Massachusetts
  Ayer is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Originally part of Groton, it was incorporated February 14, 1871 and became a major commercial railroad junction. The town was home to Camp Stevens, a training camp for Massachusetts volunteers during the American Civil War...
  
  
  • Devens, a village of Ayer, Harvard
    Harvard, Massachusetts
    Harvard is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. A farming community settled in 1658 and incorporated in 1732, it has been home to several non-traditional communities, such as Harvard Shaker Village and the utopian Transcendentalist center Fruitlands...
    
     and Shirley
    Shirley, Massachusetts
    -Demographics:This article describes the town of Shirley as a whole. Additional demographic detail is available which describes only the central settlement or village within the town, although that detail is included in the aggregate values reported here...
    
    
• Bedford
  Bedford, Massachusetts
  Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is within the Greater Boston area, north-west of the city of Boston. The population of Bedford was 13,320 at the 2010 census.- History :...
  
  
• Belmont
  Belmont, Massachusetts
  Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census.- History :Belmont was founded on March 18, 1859 by former citizens of, and land from the bordering towns of Watertown, to the south; Waltham, to the west; and Arlington, then...
  
  
• Billerica
  Billerica, Massachusetts
  Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...
  
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  • North Billerica
    North Billerica, Massachusetts
    North Billerica is a unincorporated village of the town of Billerica, Massachusetts, United States, one of the nine sections that make up the Town of Billerica. It is the home to Faulkner and Talbot mills and the North Billerica Train Depot...
    
    , a village of Billerica
  • Pinehurst
    Pinehurst, Massachusetts
    Pinehurst is an unincorporated village and a census-designated place in the town of Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,941 at the 2000 census...
    
    , a village of Billerica
• Boxborough
  Boxborough, Massachusetts
  Boxborough is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,996 at the 2010 census. The town name is often spelled "Boxboro" on highway signs and official documents, but the correct spelling is, in fact, Boxborough....
  
  
• Burlington
  Burlington, Massachusetts
  Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,498 at the 2010 census.- History :It is believed that Burlington takes its name from the English town of Bridlington, however this has never been confirmed....
  
  
• Cambridge
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
  
  , a city and county seat
  County seat
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• Carlisle
  Carlisle, Massachusetts
  Carlisle is an affluent, rural town northwest of Boston located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the town is 4,852.-History:...
  
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• Chelmsford
  Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  Chelmsford is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 33,802. The Census Bureau's 2008 population estimate for the town was 34,409, ranking it 14th in population among the 54 municipalities in...
  
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  • North Chelmsford
    North Chelmsford, Massachusetts
    North Chelmsford is an unincorporated village in the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States. Although North Chelmsford has its own zip code , library, post office, police station, fire station, and local calling area, it is run by the same local town government and is part of the same...
    
    , a village of Chelmsford
• Concord
  Concord, Massachusetts
  Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...
  
  
  • West Concord
    West Concord, Massachusetts
    West Concord is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Concord in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,632 at the 2000 census.-Geography:West Concord is located at ....
    
    , a village of Concord
• Dracut
  Dracut, Massachusetts
  Dracut is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 29,457. Dracut is primarily a suburban community, belonging to Greater Lowell and bordering southern New Hampshire...
  
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• Dunstable
  Dunstable, Massachusetts
  Dunstable is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,179 at the 2010 census.-Etymology:Dunstable was named after its sister town Dunstable, UK....
  
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• Everett
  Everett, Massachusetts
  Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, near Boston. The population was 41,667 at the 2010 census.Everett is the last city in the United States with a bicameral legislature, which is composed of a seven-member Board of Aldermen and an 18-member Common Council...
  
  , a city
• Framingham
  Framingham, Massachusetts
  Framingham is a New England town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 68,318 as of the United States 2010 Census. -History:...
  
  
  • Nobscot, a village of Framingham
  • Saxonville, a village of Framingham
  • South Framingham, a region of Framingham south of state rte. 9
• Groton
  Groton, Massachusetts
  Groton is a town located in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The population was 10,646 at the 2010 census. It is home to two noted prep schools: Groton School, founded in 1884, and Lawrence Academy at Groton, founded in 1793. The historic town hosts the National Shepley Hill Horse...
  
  
• Holliston
  Holliston, Massachusetts
  Holliston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States in the Greater Boston area. The population was 13,547 at the 2010 census. It is part of the region known as MetroWest. Holliston is the only town in Middlesex County that borders both Norfolk and Worcester...
  
  
• Hopkinton
  Hopkinton, Massachusetts
  Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, just under 30 miles west and south of Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day in April, and as the home of computer storage firm EMC Corporation.For geographic and demographic...
  
  
• Hudson
  Hudson, Massachusetts
  Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,063 at the 2010 census. The town is located in central Massachusetts, about a 40-minute drive, or about , west of Boston, and about a 20-minute drive, or about , northeast of Worcester.Before its...
  
  
• Lexington
  Lexington, Massachusetts
  Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,399 at the 2010 census. This town is famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.- History :...
  
  
  • East Lexington, a village of Lexington
• Lincoln
  Lincoln, Massachusetts
  Lincoln is a town in the historic area of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,362 at the 2010 census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base that live within town limits...
  
  
• Littleton
  Littleton, Massachusetts
  Littleton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,924 at the 2010 census....
  
  
  • Littleton Common
    Littleton Common, Massachusetts
    Littleton Common is a census-designated place in the town of Littleton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,816 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Littleton Common is located at ....
    
    , a village of Littleton
• Lowell
  Lowell, Massachusetts
  Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...
  
  , a city and county seat
  County seat
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• Malden
  Malden, Massachusetts
  Malden is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,450 at the 2010 census. In 2009 Malden was ranked as the "Best Place to Raise Your Kids" in Massachusetts by Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine.-History:...
  
  , a city
• Marlborough
  Marlborough, Massachusetts
  Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 38,499 at the 2010 census. Marlborough became a prosperous industrial town in the 19th century and made the transition to high technology industry in the late 20th century after the construction of the...
  
  , a city
• Maynard
  Maynard, Massachusetts
  Maynard is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 10,106.- History :Maynard, located on the Assabet River, was incorporated as an independent municipality in 1871. Prior to that it was known as 'Assabet Village' but was legally...
  
  
• Medford
  Medford, Massachusetts
  Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, on the Mystic River, five miles northwest of downtown Boston. In the 2010 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 56,173...
  
  , a city
• Melrose
  Melrose, Massachusetts
  -Government:Robert J. Dolan is the mayor. Melrose is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by Paul Brodeur . Katherine Clark is the state senator for wards 1 through 5 and Thomas McGee is the state senator for wards 6 and 7. Melrose is part of the seventh Congressional...
  
  , a city
  • Melrose Highlands
    Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts
    Melrose Highlands is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Melrose, Massachusetts. Its zip code was 02177, before the Highlands post office was closed; the Melrose zip code of 02176 is now used, although mail marked as 02177 is still deliverable....
    
    , a region of Melrose
• Natick
  Natick, Massachusetts
  Natick is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 33,006 at the 2010 census. Only west from Boston, Natick is considered part of the Greater Boston area...
  
  
• Newton
  Newton, Massachusetts
  Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...
  
  , a city
  • Auburndale
    Auburndale, Massachusetts
    Auburndale is one of the 13 villages of Newton, Massachusetts. It lies at the western end of Newton near the intersection of interstate highways 90 and 95, and is bisected by the Massachusetts Turnpike. Auburndale is surrounded by three other Newton villages as well as the city of Waltham and the...
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Chestnut Hill
    Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
    Chestnut Hill is a wealthy New England village located six miles west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated municipal entity, but unlike most of them, it encompasses parts of three separate municipalities, each of...
    
    , a village of Boston
    Boston
    Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
    
    , Brookline
    Brookline, Massachusetts
    Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...
    
     and Newton
  • Newton Centre
    Newton Centre, Massachusetts
    Newton Centre is a borough of Newton, Massachusetts. The main commercial center of Newton Centre is a triangular area surrounding the intersections of Beacon Street, Centre Street and Langley Road. It is the largest downtown area among all the villages of Newton, and serves as a large upscale...
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Newton Highlands
    Newton Highlands, Massachusetts
    Newton Highlands is a village of Newton, Massachusetts. Newton Highlands is largely suburban outside of the village and the commercial district running along Winchester and Needham Streets....
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Newton Lower Falls
    Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts
    Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts is a village of Newton, Massachusetts, on the Charles River. The commercial area extends across the river into Wellesley, Massachusetts, where it is known as Wellesley Lower Falls, where a majority of the retail businesses are.The Charles River drops 18 feet over...
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Newton Upper Falls
    Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts
    Newton Upper Falls is a village situated on the east bank of the Charles River in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States.The area borders Needham, Massachusetts to the south/southwest, Wellesley, Massachusetts to the west, the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston to the extreme...
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Newtonville
    Newtonville, Massachusetts
    Newtonville is a village of Newton, Massachusetts.Located in Newtonville is Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools. Also located in Newtonville is the MBTA Commuter Rail train station, which is serviced by the buses 59, 553, 554, and 556....
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Nonantum
    Nonantum, Massachusetts
    Nonantum is one of the thirteen villages of Newton, Massachusetts, also known as Silver Lake or The Lake. The lake in question was filled with construction rubble and built over from the 1930s into the late 1950s. The neighborhood kids cleared the snow each winter and played hockey on it through...
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Thompsonville
    Thompsonville, Massachusetts
    Thompsonville is one of the 13 villages of Newton, Massachusetts. John St. is one of its main attractions....
    
    , a village of Newton
  • Waban
    Waban, Massachusetts
    Waban is one of the thirteen villages of Newton, Massachusetts, an affluent suburban city approximately seven miles from downtown Boston.-Origin of name:Waban was named for Waban, the first Massachusett Indian converted to Christianity, in 1646...
    
    , a village of Newton
• North Reading
  North Reading, Massachusetts
  North Reading is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,892 at the 2010 census.-History:The area was first settled in 1651 when the town of Reading received a special land grant north of the Ipswich River...
  
  
• Pepperell
  Pepperell, Massachusetts
  Pepperell is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,497 at the 2010 census. It includes the village of East Pepperell.-History:...
  
  
  • East Pepperell
    East Pepperell, Massachusetts
    East Pepperell is a census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,034 at the 2000 census.-Geography:East Pepperell is located at ....
    
    , a village of Pepperell
• Reading
  Reading, Massachusetts
  Reading is an affluent town situated in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, some north of central Boston. The population was 24,747 at the 2010 census.-Settlement and Independence:...
  
  
• Sherborn
  Sherborn, Massachusetts
  Sherborn is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is in area code 508 and has the ZIP code 01770. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the town population was 4,119. The assessed value of the town for the fiscal year 2005 is $1,008,146,994....
  
  
• Shirley
  Shirley, Massachusetts
  -Demographics:This article describes the town of Shirley as a whole. Additional demographic detail is available which describes only the central settlement or village within the town, although that detail is included in the aggregate values reported here...
  
  
• Somerville
  Somerville, Massachusetts
  Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...
  
  , a city
• Stoneham
  Stoneham, Massachusetts
  Stoneham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Its population was 21,437 at the 2010 census, down from 22,219 in 2000. The town is the birthplace of Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan and is the home of the Stone Zoo.- History :...
  
  
• Stow
  Stow, Massachusetts
  Stow is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,590 at the 2010 census.- History :Stow was first settled c. 1660 by Matthew Boon and John Kettell...
  
  
• Sudbury
  Sudbury, Massachusetts
  Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, population 17,659. The town was incorporated in 1639, with the original boundaries including what is now Wayland. Wayland split from Sudbury in 1780. When first incorporated, it included and parts of Framingham, Marlborough, Stow...
  
  
• Tewksbury
  Tewksbury, Massachusetts
  Tewksbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,961 at the 2010 census.- History :Tewksbury was first settled in 1637 and was officially incorporated in 1734 from Billerica. Like Tewksbury Township, New Jersey, it is named after the town of Tewkesbury,...
  
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• Townsend
  Townsend, Massachusetts
  Townsend is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,926 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Townsend, please see the article Townsend , Massachusetts....
  
  
• Tyngsborough
  Tyngsborough, Massachusetts
  Tyngsborough is a town located in the northwest section of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Composed of of land and surface water, Tyngsborough borders the towns of Dunstable, Groton, Westford, Chelmsford, Dracut, and the City of Lowell, as well as the New Hampshire communities of Hudson,...
  
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• Wakefield
  Wakefield, Massachusetts
  -History:-Geography:The diagram above shows what is to the east, west, north, south, and other directions of the center of Wakefield. Towns with population above 25,000 are in bold italics.-Demographics:-Notable residents:...
  
  
• Waltham
  Waltham, Massachusetts
  Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...
  
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• Watertown
  Watertown, Massachusetts
  The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.- History :Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from England...
  
  , officially called a town but legally a city
• Wayland
  Wayland, Massachusetts
  Wayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,994 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on Cochituate, which is part of Wayland, please see the article Cochituate, Massachusetts.-History:...
  
  
  • Cochituate
    Cochituate, Massachusetts
    Cochituate is a census-designated place in the town of Wayland in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,768 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cochituate is located at ....
    
    , a village of Wayland.
• Westford
  Westford, Massachusetts
  Westford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,951 at the 2010 census.-History:Originally a part of neighboring Chelmsford, West Chelmsford soon grew large enough to sustain its own governance, and was officially incorporated as Westford on September 23,...
  
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  • Forge Village, a village of Westford.
  • Graniteville, a village of Westford.
  • Nabnasset
    Nabnasset, Massachusetts
    Nabnasset is a village located in the northeastern portion of Westford, Massachusetts, between North Chelmsford, Dunstable, Graniteville and Westford Center....
    
    , a village of Westford.
• Weston
  Weston, Massachusetts
  Weston is a suburb of Boston located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States in the Boston metro area. The population of Weston, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, is 11,261....
  
  
• Wilmington
  Wilmington, Massachusetts
  Wilmington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 22,325 at the 2010 census.-History:Wilmington was first settled in 1665 and was officially incorporated in 1730, from parts of Woburn, Reading and Billerica. Minutemen from Wilmington responded to the alarm...
  
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• Winchester
  Winchester, Massachusetts
  Winchester is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, eight miles north of Boston. With its agricultural roots having mostly disappeared, it is now an affluent suburb...
  
  
• Woburn
  Woburn, Massachusetts
  Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston, Massachusetts, and just south of the intersection of I-93 and I-95.- History :...
  
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• denotes a municipality of Middlesex-North.

See also

• Middlesex
  Middlesex
  Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
  
  , historic county of England
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Middlesex Fells
  Middlesex Fells Reservation
  Middlesex Fells Reservation, often referred to simply as the Fells, is a Massachusetts state park located in Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester...
  
  
• Middlesex Community College (Massachusetts)
• Middlesex Turnpike (Massachusetts)
  Middlesex Turnpike (Massachusetts)
  The Middlesex Turnpike was an early turnpike between Cambridge and Tyngsborough, Massachusetts and the New Hampshire border, where it connected with the Amherst Turnpike and thence Nashua and Claremont, New Hampshire....
  
  

External links

• Middlesex County Sheriff's Department
• Walling & Gray. 1871 Map of Middlesex County Plate 44-45 from the 1871 Atlas of Massachusetts.
• National Register of Historic Places listing for Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
• Middlesex County entry from Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839
• Map of cities and towns of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts County Map
• History of Middlesex County by Samual Adams Drake, 1880. Contains histories of each town in the county.
• History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd. J. W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia. 1890.
• Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds
• Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds
• League of Women Voters, Massachusetts: County Government