Amherst Town, Massachusetts

Amherst Town population, 2020 to 2024

Amherst Town added 13,183 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +47.4%. In the latest year it moved by -60. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Amherst Town is 93% of it.

Amherst Town covers 27.62 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,484 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Amherst Town is less dense than the typical town.

What county Amherst Town is in

All of Amherst Town's residents live in Hampshire County, which had 165,399 residents in 2024. Amherst Town holds 24.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Amherst Town

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Amherst Town by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 01002, 01003. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Amherst Town is

The Census internal point of Amherst Town is at 42.363500, -72.507300. Boston, the capital, is 73.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chicopee, MA (55,381 people), 13.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, MA, 17.2 miles away.

Daylight in Amherst Town

At 42.36° N, Amherst Town gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Amherst Town

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Northampton, 8.9 miles away, with 31,315 people.