Somerville is a City of Young Adults
Most Somerville residents are between the ages of 20 and 34.
How old are Somervillians? Somewhere between 20 and 34, according to Census data.
Most Somerville residents, 43.6 percent of them, fit into that age group. Of the cities and towns in the Somerville region, only Cambridge has more residents in that group (44.5 percent).
Meanwhile, Somerville has relatively few people under 20 and over 55, and 68.2 percent of the population is between 20 and 54.
Patch compared the populations of cities and towns in the area, and below is a chart showing the results.
The numbers below were provided by the 2010 U.S. Census, except for the Boston neighborhood breakdowns, which were determined using the City of Boston's myNeighborhood Viewer tool, and represent approximations for each community.
| Community | % ages 0-9 |
% ages 10-19 |
% ages 20-34 |
% ages 35-54 |
% ages 55-64 |
% ages 65+ |
| Arlington | 12.5 | 9.4 | 16 | 32.6 | 12.8 | 15.9 |
| Boston | 9.5 | 12.4 | 35 | 23.8 | 9.1 | 10.1 |
| *Charlestown | 11 | 6.7 | 33.5 | 28.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 |
| *Back Bay | 5.1 | 5.6 | 50.7 | 19.7 | 9.3 | 9.6 |
| *Beacon Hill | 4.1 | 11.9 | 42.8 | 19.9 | 9.7 | 11.5 |
| *South End | 8 | 5.9 | 33.8 | 31.2 | 10.5 | 10.6 |
| Cambridge | 7.2 | 9.2 | 44.5 | 20.8 | 8.8 | 9.6 |
| Chelsea | 12.5 | 15.2 | 27.7 | 27.4 | 8.1 | 8.8 |
| Everett | 11.9 | 12.6 | 24 | 29.3 | 9.7 | 13.5 |
| Lynnfield | 11.9 | 15.4 | 10.1 | 31.3 | 13.7 | 18.1 |
| Malden | 11.4 | 10.4 | 26.2 | 29.5 | 10.8 | 11.7 |
| Medford | 9.5 | 10.3 | 26.3 | 27.4 | 11.2 | 15.2 |
| Melrose | 12.2 | 11.3 | 16.1 | 31.2 | 13.3 | 15.9 |
| Reading | 13.4 | 13.6 | 14.2 | 31.9 | 13.1 | 14.2 |
| Revere | 11.7 | 11.1 | 23 | 28.9 | 10.8 | 14.6 |
| Saugus | 9.7 | 11.6 | 16.7 | 30.2 | 15.9 | 17.5 |
| Somerville | 7.7 | 7.2 | 43.6 | 24.6 | 8 | 8.2 |
| Stoneham | 10.6 | 11 | 15.9 | 30 | 14 | 18.6 |
| Wakefield | 11.5 | 11.7 | 17 | 31.6 | 13.5 | 14.7 |
| Winchester | 15.5 | 14.7 | 8.8 | 32.3 | 12.4 | 16.3 |
| Winthrop | No data | |||||
| Woburn | 11.2 | 10.4 | 20.8 | 29.9 | 11.8 | 15.9 |
Tom Walsh
9:05 am on Friday, June 1, 2012
Just to nitpick: 43.6% is not "most". Most Somerville residents (56.4%) are not between 20 and 34.