Attleboro, Massachusetts

Area Profile

46,762 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Attleboro, in Bristol County.

67out of 100
Area Score
Top 28% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 48% of 3,904 cities measured57
SchoolsTop 47% of 2,668 cities measured54
Growth1745th of 2,973 cities measured45
Housing affordability2158th of 4,223 cities measured80
Climate3203rd of 4,223 cities measured62
Physical resilienceTop 12% of 4,182 cities measured89
AccessTop 35% of 4,226 cities measured95
Economic stabilityTop 29% of 4,226 cities measured70
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.2% and median household income $98,954, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Attleboro in the top 12% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 16 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
46,762
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$98,954
Top 19% nationally
Density
1,746/sq mi
26.8 sq mi of land
Median age
39.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Bristol County
Massachusetts
Metro area
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
Nearest major airport
PVD
16 mi · Rhode Island TF Green Intl
Median home value
$448,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.2% is lower than 55% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 2.1% over the past year, to 25,270 employed residents.

34% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 75% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,600$98,954Top 19%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,212$44,763Top 24%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.6%Bottom 41%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute33.2 minTop 21%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.0%Top 25%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment25,270Bottom 33%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.2%Top 32%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.1%Bottom 17%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force26,374Bottom 32%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation71.6%Top 14%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,290Top 47%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$53,680Top 41%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.4%Bottom 26%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.2%Bottom 45%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/065.93.3
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.2% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202499k82k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $98,954 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers21,530$33,700
Retail Salespersons20,910$35,230
Home Health and Personal Care Aides15,670$40,890
Registered Nurses15,180$99,880
Cashiers14,440$34,540
General and Operations Managers14,110$110,360

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 45% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
33.1%
Top 44% in Massachusetts
Reading proficiency
45.1%
Top 50% in Massachusetts
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Attleboro HighAttleboro2,03015.4
Cyril K. Brennan Middle SchoolAttleboro59915.024%39%
Wamsutta Middle SchoolAttleboro59314.839%42%
Robert J. Coelho Middle SchoolAttleboro57415.537%39%
Hyman Fine Elementary SchoolAttleboro47217.534%57%
Peter Thacher Elementary SchoolAttleboro46713.332%45%
Hill-Roberts Elementary SchoolAttleboro41213.733%46%
Thomas Willett Elementary SchoolAttleboro37314.928%44%
A. Irvin Studley Elementary SchoolAttleboro37214.937%55%
Early Learning CenterAttleboro24424.4
Attleboro Community AcademyAttleboro648.0

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Massachusetts’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,590 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
19.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,590
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$448,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.53Top 20%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate66.2%Bottom 31%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±58619,121Top 3%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$83$1,590Top 18%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,152$448,100Top 15%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.3%Top 45%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.2%Bottom 34%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
45/ 100
Ranks 1745 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 1% since 2020, reaching 47,085 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
38
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.8
Bottom 27% nationally
Year over year
−3%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202447k46k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202120222023202420258322
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−73%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 47.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 38, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TAUNTON MUNI AP, 14.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index53.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation47.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index38.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
38
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
53
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

89 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and heat wave.

HurricaneElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, strong wind, ice storm, lightning, cold wave, tornado, landslide, winter weather, wildfire, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Bristol County records 1.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 4.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 22.9 per 100,000 residents in Bristol County.

Homicide
1.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
4.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
22.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
9.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Bristol County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Attleboro rather than Attleboro itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 16 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Rhode Island TF Green IntlPVD16 mi8,700 ft
General Edward Lawrence Logan IntlBOS33 mi10,083 ft
Manchester Boston RgnlMHT70 mi9,250 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
ProvidenceProvidence County191,76760vs Attleboro
New BedfordBristol County100,99850vs Attleboro
Fall RiverBristol County94,08253vs Attleboro
CranstonProvidence County83,25067vs Attleboro
WarwickKent County83,17573vs Attleboro
PawtucketProvidence County75,89364vs Attleboro
TauntonBristol County60,43363vs Attleboro
East ProvidenceProvidence County47,28168vs Attleboro
WoonsocketProvidence County43,52157vs Attleboro
North Attleborough TownBristol County30,98472vs Attleboro
NewportNewport County24,87462vs Attleboro
Central FallsProvidence County22,70155vs Attleboro

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Attleboro

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
0270346,713$99,15267