Attleboro, Massachusetts
Area Profile
46,762 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Attleboro, in Bristol County.
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
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.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income ±$5,600 | $98,954 | Top 19%of 29,573 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Per capita income ±$2,212 | $44,763 | Top 24%of 31,420 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Poverty rate | 8.6% | Bottom 41%of 31,900 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Average commute | 33.2 min | Top 21%of 31,543 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Bachelor's degree or higher | 34.0% | Top 25%of 31,919 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Employment | 25,270 | Bottom 33%of 3,904 | June 2026 |
| Employment change (3 years) | 1.2% | Top 32%of 3,903 | June 2026 |
| Employment change (year over year) | -2.1% | Bottom 17%of 3,904 | June 2026 |
| Labor force | 26,374 | Bottom 32%of 3,904 | June 2026 |
| Labor force participation | 71.6% | Top 14%of 31,933 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Mean annual wage | $69,290 | Top 47%of 3,658 | 2025 OEWS |
| Median annual wage | $53,680 | Top 41%of 3,658 | 2025 OEWS |
| Unemployment change (year over year) | -0.4% | Bottom 26%of 3,904 | June 2026 |
| Unemployment rate | 4.2% | Bottom 45%of 3,904 | June 2026 |
| Occupation | People employed | Median annual wage |
|---|---|---|
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 21,530 | $33,700 |
| Retail Salespersons | 20,910 | $35,230 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 15,670 | $40,890 |
| Registered Nurses | 15,180 | $99,880 |
| Cashiers | 14,440 | $34,540 |
| General and Operations Managers | 14,110 | $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.
Schools
How it’s calculated →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.
| School | District | Students | Per teacher | Math | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attleboro High | Attleboro | 2,030 | 15.4 | — | — |
| Cyril K. Brennan Middle School | Attleboro | 599 | 15.0 | 24% | 39% |
| Wamsutta Middle School | Attleboro | 593 | 14.8 | 39% | 42% |
| Robert J. Coelho Middle School | Attleboro | 574 | 15.5 | 37% | 39% |
| Hyman Fine Elementary School | Attleboro | 472 | 17.5 | 34% | 57% |
| Peter Thacher Elementary School | Attleboro | 467 | 13.3 | 32% | 45% |
| Hill-Roberts Elementary School | Attleboro | 412 | 13.7 | 33% | 46% |
| Thomas Willett Elementary School | Attleboro | 373 | 14.9 | 28% | 44% |
| A. Irvin Studley Elementary School | Attleboro | 372 | 14.9 | 37% | 55% |
| Early Learning Center | Attleboro | 244 | 24.4 | — | — |
| Attleboro Community Academy | Attleboro | 64 | 8.0 | — | — |
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.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home price to income | 4.53 | Top 20%of 28,473 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Homeownership rate | 66.2% | Bottom 31%of 31,843 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Housing units ±586 | 19,121 | Top 3%of 32,330 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median gross rent ±$83 | $1,590 | Top 18%of 23,432 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median home value ±$13,152 | $448,100 | Top 15%of 29,342 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Rent as a share of income | 19.3% | Top 45%of 23,201 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Vacancy rate | 6.2% | Bottom 34%of 32,001 | 2024 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 →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.
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.
| Metric | Value | Source period |
|---|---|---|
| 90th percentile air quality index | 53.0 | 2024 calendar year |
| Annual precipitation | 47.6" | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average January low | 19°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average July high | 84°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Comfortable months | 5 | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Days above AQI 100 | 2 | 2024 calendar year |
| Median air quality index | 38.0 | 2024 calendar year |
| Seasonal temperature swing | 43°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
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
The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and heat wave.
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.
Safety
How it’s measured →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.
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.
| Airport | Code | Distance | Longest runway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island TF Green Intl | PVD | 16 mi | 8,700 ft |
| General Edward Lawrence Logan Intl | BOS | 33 mi | 10,083 ft |
| Manchester Boston Rgnl | MHT | 70 mi | 9,250 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| City | County | Population | Area Score | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Providence | Providence County | 191,767 | 60 | vs Attleboro |
| New Bedford | Bristol County | 100,998 | 50 | vs Attleboro |
| Fall River | Bristol County | 94,082 | 53 | vs Attleboro |
| Cranston | Providence County | 83,250 | 67 | vs Attleboro |
| Warwick | Kent County | 83,175 | 73 | vs Attleboro |
| Pawtucket | Providence County | 75,893 | 64 | vs Attleboro |
| Taunton | Bristol County | 60,433 | 63 | vs Attleboro |
| East Providence | Providence County | 47,281 | 68 | vs Attleboro |
| Woonsocket | Providence County | 43,521 | 57 | vs Attleboro |
| North Attleborough Town | Bristol County | 30,984 | 72 | vs Attleboro |
| Newport | Newport County | 24,874 | 62 | vs Attleboro |
| Central Falls | Providence County | 22,701 | 55 | vs 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.
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Data & methodology
| Used for | Source | Source period | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access | Federal Aviation Administration Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service | NASR current cycle | 28-day NASR cycle |
| Physical risk | Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index | National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0) | Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current) |
| Climate | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly) | 1991-2020 Normals | Every ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period) |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics | June 2026 | Monthly |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics | 2025 OEWS | Annual (spring release) |
| Demographics | U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program | July 1, 2024 estimate | Annual (vintage released each spring) |
| Development | U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey | 12 months ending July 2026 | Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month |
| Demographics, Housing, Income, Jobs | U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File) | 2024 ACS 5-Year | Annual (5-year estimates released each December) |
| safety | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Provisional county-level mortality by intent | April, 2025 to March, 2026 | Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years |
| schools | U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments | 2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school year | Directory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them |
| Climate | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System Daily Air Quality Index by county | 2024 calendar year | Annually, 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| ZIP | Population | Median household income | Area Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02703 | 46,713 | $99,152 | 67 |