Braintree Town, Massachusetts

Braintree Town population, 2020 to 2024

Braintree Town added 59 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +363. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Braintree Town is 89% of it.

Braintree Town covers 13.76 square miles of land and 0.80 of water, for 2,844 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Braintree Town is close to the typical town.

What county Braintree Town is in

All of Braintree Town's residents live in Norfolk County, which had 740,754 residents in 2024. Braintree Town holds 5.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Braintree Town

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Braintree Town by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 02184. 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 Braintree Town is

The Census internal point of Braintree Town is at 42.206200, -71.002300. Boston, the capital, is 11.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Weymouth Town, MA (60,159 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Quincy, MA, 3.8 miles away.

Daylight in Braintree Town

At 42.21° N, Braintree Town gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Braintree Town

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Weymouth Town, 3.0 miles away, with 60,159 people.