Woburn, Massachusetts

Woburn population, 2020 to 2024

Woburn added 3,068 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,812. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Woburn is 100% of it.

Woburn covers 12.65 square miles of land and 0.29 of water, for 3,470 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Woburn is denser than the typical town.

What county Woburn is in

All of Woburn's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 1,668,956 residents in 2024. Woburn holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Woburn

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Woburn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 01801. 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 Woburn is

The Census internal point of Woburn is at 42.488700, -71.154400. Boston, the capital, is 10.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Medford, MA (59,898 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cambridge, MA, 8.0 miles away.

Daylight in Woburn

At 42.49° N, Woburn 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 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Woburn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Medford, 5.0 miles away, with 59,898 people.