Medford, Massachusetts

Medford population, 2020 to 2024

Medford added 378 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +503. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 39th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Medford is 1.4 times that size.

Medford covers 8.10 square miles of land and 0.56 of water, for 7,395 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Medford is denser than the typical town.

What county Medford is in

All of Medford's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 1,668,956 residents in 2024. Medford holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Medford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Medford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 02155. 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 Medford is

The Census internal point of Medford is at 42.423800, -71.109200. Boston, the capital, is 5.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Somerville, MA (82,149 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cambridge, MA, 3.4 miles away.

Daylight in Medford

At 42.42° N, Medford gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 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 Medford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Somerville, 2.3 miles away, with 82,149 people.