Lowell is a relatively large city located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 120,418 people and 26 associated neighborhoods, Lowell is the fifth largest community in Massachusetts. Lowell has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.Lowell is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lowell is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lowell who work in office and administrative support (8.30%), management occupations (7.96%), and sales jobs (7.62%). Also of interest is that Lowell has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.62% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The education level of Lowell citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.96% of adults in Lowell have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Lowell in 2022 was $36,400, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,600 for a family of four. However, Lowell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lowell is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lowell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lowell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Lowell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.01% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lowell include Irish, Italian, French, English, and Portuguese. Lowell also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 30.46%. The most common language spoken in Lowell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).
