Demographics

In 1990 Worcester County had a population of 709,705.

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 750,963 people, 283,927 households, and 192,502 families residing in the county. The population density

Population density

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 was 496 people per square mile (192/km²). There were 298,159 housing units at an average density of 197 per square mile (76/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 89.61% White

Race (United States Census)

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, 2.73% Black

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 or African American

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, 0.25% Native American

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, 2.62% Asian

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, 0.04% Pacific Islander

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, 2.93% from other races

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, and 1.82% from two or more races. 6.77% of the population were Hispanic

Race (United States Census)

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 or Latino

Race (United States Census)

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 of any race. 15.9% were of Irish

Irish people

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, 12.3% Italian

Italian people

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, 11.7% French

French people

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, 8.0% French Canadian

French Canadian

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, 8.0% English

English people

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, 5.6% Polish and 5.0% American

United States

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 ancestry according to Census 2000. 85.1% spoke English

English language

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, 6.1% Spanish

Spanish language

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 and 1.9% French

French language

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 as their first language.

There were 283,927 households out of which 33.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.50% were married couples

Marriage

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 living together, 11.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.20% were non-families. 26.20% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.11.

In the county the population was spread out with 25.60% under the age of 18, 8.40% from 18 to 24, 31.10% from 25 to 44, 21.80% from 45 to 64, and 13.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 95.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.10 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $47,874, and the median income for a family was $58,394. Males had a median income of $42,261 versus $30,516 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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 for the county was $22,983. About 6.80% of families and 9.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.30% of those under age 18 and 9.50% of those age 65 or over.

Cities, towns, and villages*

• Ashburnham
  Ashburnham, Massachusetts
  As of the census of 2000, there were 5,546 people, 1,929 households, and 1,541 families residing in the town. The population density was 143.4 people per square mile . There were 2,204 housing units at an average density of 57.0 per square mile...
  
  
  • South Ashburnham
    South Ashburnham, Massachusetts
    South Ashburnham is a census-designated place in the town of Ashburnham in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,062 at the 2010 census.-Geography:South Ashburnham is located at ....
    
     (a village of Ashburnham)
• Athol
  Athol, Massachusetts
  Athol is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,584 at the 2010 census.-History:Originally called Pequoiag, the area was first settled by five families in September 1735. When the township was incorporated in 1762, the name was changed to Athol...
  
  
• Auburn
  Auburn, Massachusetts
  Auburn is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,188 at the 2010 census.- History :Auburn was first settled in 1789 and was officially incorporated in 1808 as the town of Ward, in honor of American Revolution General Artemas Ward...
  
  
  • Stoneville (a village of Auburn)
• Barre
  Barre, Massachusetts
  Barre is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,398 at the 2010 census.-History:Originally called the Northwest District of Rutland, it was first settled in 1720. The town was incorporated on June 17, 1774, as Hutchinson after Thomas Hutchinson, colonial...
  
  
• Berlin
  Berlin, Massachusetts
  Berlin is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,866 at the 2010 census.- History :Berlin was first settled in 1665 and was officially incorporated in 1812....
  
  
• Blackstone
  Blackstone, Massachusetts
  Blackstone is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,026 at the 2010 census. It is formally a part of the Providence metropolitan area. Blackstone is the only municipality in Massachusetts to employ automatic cameras in traffic enforcement.- History :This...
  
  
• Bolton
  Bolton, Massachusetts
  As of the census of 2000, there were 4,148 people, 1,424 households, and 1,201 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 1,476 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 97.76% White, 0.19% African American, 0.05% Native American, 1.30%...
  
  
• Boylston
  Boylston, Massachusetts
  Boylston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,355 at the 2010 census.-History:Boylston was first settled by Europeans around 1706 in the north part of the present-day town, most notably by the Sawyer family...
  
  
  • Morningdale (a village of Boylston)
• Brookfield
  Brookfield, Massachusetts
  Brookfield is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,390 at the 2010 census.-History:Brookfield was first settled in 1660 and was officially incorporated in 1718...
  
  
• Charlton
  Charlton, Massachusetts
  Charlton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,981 at the 2010 census.- History :Charlton was first settled in 1735. It was established as a District separated off from Oxford on January 10, 1755, and became a Town in 1775 by a law that made all...
  
  
• Clinton
  Clinton, Massachusetts
  Clinton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,606 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Clinton, please see the article Clinton , Massachusetts....
  
  
• Douglas
  Douglas, Massachusetts
  Douglas is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,471 as of the 2010 census. It includes the sizable Douglas State Forest, managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation .- History :...
  
  
  • East Douglas
    East Douglas, Massachusetts
    East Douglas is a census-designated place in the town of Douglas in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,557 at the 2010 census.-Geography:East Douglas is located at ....
    
     (a village of Douglas)
• Dudley
  Dudley, Massachusetts
  Dudley is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,390 at the 2010 census.-History:Dudley was first settled in 1714 and was officially incorporated in 1732...
  
  
• East Brookfield
  East Brookfield, Massachusetts
  East Brookfield is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,183 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place East Brookfield, please see the article East Brookfield , Massachusetts.- History :East Brookfield was...
  
  
  • Union Chapel (a village of East Brookfield)
• Fitchburg
  Fitchburg, Massachusetts
  Fitchburg is the third largest city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,318 at the 2010 census. Fitchburg is home to Fitchburg State University as well as 17 public and private elementary and high schools.- History :...
  
  
• Gardner
  Gardner, Massachusetts
  Gardner, Massachusetts is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,228 as of the 2010 census. Gardner is home to Dunn State Park, Gardner Heritage State Park, Lake Wampanoag Wildlife Sanctuary, and Mount Wachusett Community College.-History:Named in honor of...
  
  
• Grafton
  Grafton, Massachusetts
  Grafton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,765 at the 2010 census. Grafton is the home of a Nipmuc village known as Hassanamisco Reservation, the Willard House and Clock Museum, and the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine...
  
  
  • Farnumsville (a village of Grafton, also called South Grafton)
  • Fisherville (a village of Grafton)
  • North Grafton (a part of Grafton)
  • Saundersville (a village of Grafton)
• Hardwick
  Hardwick, Massachusetts
  Hardwick is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about west of the city of Worcester. It had a population of 2,990 at the 2010 census. It includes the villages of Hardwick, Gilbertville, Wheelwright and Old Furnace.- History :...
  
  
  • Gilbertville
    Gilbertville, Massachusetts
    Gilbertville is an unincorporated village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about 20 miles west of the city of Worcester.-External links:*...
    
     (a village of Hardwick)
  • Hardwick
    Hardwick, Massachusetts
    Hardwick is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about west of the city of Worcester. It had a population of 2,990 at the 2010 census. It includes the villages of Hardwick, Gilbertville, Wheelwright and Old Furnace.- History :...
    
     (a village of Hardwick)
  • Old Furnace
    Old Furnace, Massachusetts
    Old Furnace is a village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about 20 miles northwest of the city of Worcester.-External links:*...
    
     (a village of Hardwick)
  • Wheelwright
    Wheelwright, Massachusetts
    Wheelwright is a village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about 20 miles northwest of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Named after George W. Wheelwright who owned the paper mill around the turn of the 20th century...
    
     (a village of Hardwick)
• Harvard
  Harvard, Massachusetts
  Harvard is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. A farming community settled in 1658 and incorporated in 1732, it has been home to several non-traditional communities, such as Harvard Shaker Village and the utopian Transcendentalist center Fruitlands...
  
  
• Holden
  Holden, Massachusetts
  Holden is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The town was founded in 1741, and the Town Square was donated by John Hancock, former Governor of Massachusetts.The population was 17,346 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
  
  
  • Jefferson (a village of Holden)
• Hopedale
  Hopedale, Massachusetts
  Hopedale is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,911 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Hopedale, please see the article Hopedale , Massachusetts....
  
  
  • Spindleville (a village of Hopedale)
• Hubbardston
  Hubbardston, Massachusetts
  Hubbardston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the town population was 4,382.- History :...
  
  
  • Pitcherville (a village of Hubbardston)
• Lancaster
  Lancaster, Massachusetts
  Lancaster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Incorporated in 1653, Lancaster is the oldest town in Worcester County...
  
  
  • South Lancaster
    South Lancaster, Massachusetts
    South Lancaster is a census-designated place in the town of Lancaster in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,894 at the 2010 census.-Geography:South Lancaster is located at ....
    
     (a village of Lancaster)
• Leicester
  Leicester, Massachusetts
  Leicester is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 10,970 at the 2010 census.-History:Leicester was first settled in 1713 and was officially incorporated in 1714....
  
  
  • Leicester Center (a village of Leicester)
  • Cherry Valley (a village of Leicester)
  • Rochdale (a village of Leicester)
• Leominster
  Leominster, Massachusetts
  Leominster is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the second-largest city in Worcester County, with a population of 40,759 at the 2010 census. Leominster is located north of Worcester and west of Boston. Both Route 2 and Route 12 pass through Leominster. Interstate 190,...
  
  
• Lunenburg
  Lunenburg, Massachusetts
  Lunenburg is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 10,086 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Lunenburg, please see the article Lunenburg , Massachusetts....
  
  
  • Whalom (a village of Lunenburg)
• Mendon
  Mendon, Massachusetts
  Mendon is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,839 at the 2010 census.Mendon is very historic and is now part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, the oldest industrialized region in the United States.- Early history :The Nipmuc people...
  
  
• Milford
  Milford, Massachusetts
  Milford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It had a population of 27,999 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Milford, constituting the center of the town, please see the article Milford ,...
  
  
• Millbury
  Millbury, Massachusetts
  Millbury is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,261 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.-History:...
  
  
  • East Millbury (a village of Millbury)
• Millville
  Millville, Massachusetts
  Millville is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,190 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Providence metropolitan area.- History :...
  
  
• New Braintree
  New Braintree, Massachusetts
  New Braintree is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 999 at the 2010 census.- History :New Braintree was first settled in 1709 and was officially incorporated in 1751....
  
  
• North Brookfield
  North Brookfield, Massachusetts
  North Brookfield is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,680 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place North Brookfield, please see the article North Brookfield , Massachusetts.- History :North Brookfield...
  
  
• Northborough
  Northborough, Massachusetts
  Northborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The official spelling of the town's name is "Northborough", but the shorter spelling "Northboro" is also used...
  
  
  • Chapinville (a village of Northborough)
• Northbridge
  Northbridge, Massachusetts
  Northbridge is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 15,707 at the 2010 census. The Northbridge Town Hall is located at 7 Main Street in Whitinsville. The town is now a part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, of the National Park...
  
  
  • Whitinsville
    Whitinsville, Massachusetts
    Whitinsville is an unincorporated village and census-designated place on the Mumford River, a tributary of the Blackstone River, in the town of Northbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,704 at the 2010 census. Whitinsville is pronounced as if it were...
    
     (a village of Northbridge)
  • Rockdale (a village of Northbridge)
  • Linwood
    Linwood, Massachusetts
    Linwood is a village with its own post office in the towns of Northbridge and Uxbridge, Massachusetts.The zip code of the Linwood post office is 01525. As a village of both Uxbridge and Northbridge, Linwood has separate municipal services from Uxbridge or Northbiridge, for fire, police, EMS, School...
    
     (A village of Northbridge and of Uxbridge)
• Oakham
  Oakham, Massachusetts
  Oakham is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,902 at the 2010 census.- History :Oakham was first settled in 1749 and was officially incorporated in 1762...
  
  
• Oxford
  Oxford, Massachusetts
  Oxford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,709 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Oxford, please see the article Oxford , Massachusetts.-History:...
  
  
• Paxton
  Paxton, Massachusetts
  Paxton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,806 at the 2010 census.-History:Paxton was first settled in 1749 and was officially incorporated in 1765....
  
  
• Petersham
  Petersham, Massachusetts
  Petersham is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,234 at the 2010 census. Petersham is home to a considerable amount of conservation land, including the Quabbin Reservation, Harvard Forest, the Swift River Reservation, and Federated Women's Club State...
  
  
• Phillipston
  Phillipston, Massachusetts
  Phillipston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,682 at the 2010 census.- History :Phillipston was first settled in 1751, and incorporated as the town of Gerry in 1786...
  
  
• Princeton
  Princeton, Massachusetts
  Princeton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.It is bordered on the east by Sterling and Leominster, on the north by Westminster, on the northwest by Hubbardston, on the southwest by Rutland, and on the southeast by Holden....
  
  
  • East Princeton (a village of Princeton)
• Royalston
  Royalston, Massachusetts
  Royalston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,258 at the 2010 census.-History:Royalston is a small town in the North Quabbin area of northwestern-central Massachusetts. It was named after Isaac Royal, a landowner. It is very large in land area—about...
  
  
• Rutland
  Rutland, Massachusetts
  Rutland is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,973 at the 2010 census. Worcester County's only buffalo herd is located in Rutland, at Alta Vista Farm...
  
  
• Shrewsbury
  Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 31,640 people, 12,366 households, and 8,693 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 12,696 housing units at an average density of...
  
  
• Southborough
  Southborough, Massachusetts
  Southborough is an affluent town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It incorporates the smaller villages of Cordaville, Fayville, and Southville. Its name is often informally shortened to Southboro, a usage seen on many area signs and maps. Its population was 9,767 at the 2010...
  
  
  • Cordaville
    Cordaville, Massachusetts
    Cordaville is a census-designated place in the town of Southborough in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,650 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Cordaville is located at ....
    
     (a village of Southborough)
• Southbridge
  Southbridge, Massachusetts
  The Town of Southbridge is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,719 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
  
• Spencer
  Spencer, Massachusetts
  Spencer is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,688 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Spencer, please see the article Spencer , Massachusetts....
  
  
• Sterling
  Sterling, Massachusetts
  Sterling is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 7,808 at the 2010 census.- History :Sterling was first settled by Europeans in 1720 and was officially incorporated in 1781....
  
  
• Sturbridge
  Sturbridge, Massachusetts
  Sturbridge is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is home to Old Sturbridge Village living history museum and other sites of historical interest such as Tantiusques.The population was 9,268 at the 2010 census...
  
  
  • Fiskdale
    Fiskdale, Massachusetts
    Fiskdale is a census-designated place in the town of Sturbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,583 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Fiskdale is located at ....
    
     (a village of Sturbridge)
• Sutton
  Sutton, Massachusetts
  -Library:The Sutton Free Library was established in 1876. In fiscal year 2008, the town of Sutton spent 0.7% of its budget on its public library—some $18 per person.-Education:...
  
  
  • West Sutton (a village of Sutton)
  • Manchuag (a village of Sutton)
• Templeton
  Templeton, Massachusetts
  Templeton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,013 at the 2010 census. The town comprises four main villages: Templeton Center, East Templeton, Baldwinville, and Otter River...
  
  
  • Baldwinville
    Baldwinville, Massachusetts
    Baldwinville is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Templeton in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,028 at the 2010 census. The name also refers to the local post office or railroad station...
    
     (part of Templeton)
  • Otter River (a village of Templeton)
• Upton
  Upton, Massachusetts
  Upton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,542 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Upton-West Upton, please see the article Upton-West Upton, Massachusetts....
  
  
  • West Upton
    Upton-West Upton, Massachusetts
    Upton-West Upton is a census-designated place in the town of Upton in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,326 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Upton-West Upton is located at ....
    
     (a village of Upton)
• Uxbridge
  Uxbridge, Massachusetts
  Uxbridge is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It was first settled in 1662, incorporated in 1727 at Suffolk County, and named for the Earl of Uxbridge. Uxbridge is south-southeast of Worcester, north-northwest of Providence, and southwest of Boston. It is part of...
  
  
  • North Uxbridge (A village of Uxbridge)
  • Linwood
    Linwood, Massachusetts
    Linwood is a village with its own post office in the towns of Northbridge and Uxbridge, Massachusetts.The zip code of the Linwood post office is 01525. As a village of both Uxbridge and Northbridge, Linwood has separate municipal services from Uxbridge or Northbiridge, for fire, police, EMS, School...
    
     (A village of Uxbridge and Northbridge)
  • Ironstone
    Ironstone, Massachusetts
    Ironstone is an historic village in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. It derived its name from plentiful bog iron found here which helped Uxbridge to become a center for three iron forges in the town's earliest settlement. Ironstone today is known as South Uxbridge...
    
     (A village of Uxbridge, also known as South Uxbridge)
  • Wheelockville (A village of Uxbridge)
• Warren
  Warren, Massachusetts
  Warren is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,135 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Warren, please see the article Warren , Massachusetts.- History :...
  
  
• Webster
  Webster, Massachusetts
  -Media:* Worcester Telegram & Gazette * Webster Times, published every Friday* The Patriot, published every Wednesday* WGFP-AM 940, a country music station* Boston Globe* Boston Herald-Library:...
  
  
• West Boylston
  West Boylston, Massachusetts
  -Library:The West Boylston public library was established in 1878. In fiscal year 2008, the town of West Boylston spent 1.6% of its budget on its public library—some $37 per person.-External links:******...
  
  
  • Oakdale (a village of West Boylston)
• West Brookfield
  West Brookfield, Massachusetts
  West Brookfield is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,701 at the 2010 census. Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, and Noah Webster published his dictionary there....
  
  
• Westborough
  Westborough, Massachusetts
  Westborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,272 at the 2010 census. The town is governed under the New England open town meeting system, headed by a five member elected Board of Selectmen whose duties include licensing, appointing various...
  
  
• Westminster
  Westminster, Massachusetts
  Westminster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 7,277.- History :Westminster was first settled in 1737, and was officially incorporated in 1759....
  
  
• Winchendon
  Winchendon, Massachusetts
  Winchendon is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 10,300 at the 2010 census. Home to Winchendon State Forest, the town includes the villages of Waterville and Winchendon Springs....
  
  
• Worcester
  Worcester, Massachusetts
  Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
  
  , county seat

* Villages are census division, but have no separate corporate existence from the towns they are in.

External links

• Worcester County Sheriff
• Worcester District Registry of Deeds
• League of Women Voters page on counties
• Map of cities and towns of Massachusetts
• Video guide to Worcester County (Worcester Love)
• the Hampshire Council of Governments, with elected councilors from 15 towns, provides many regional services and is an example of modern regional government in Massachusetts