Shirley, MA population, income and ZIP codes

Shirley CDP is a small town in Massachusetts, with 1,256 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #217 of 248 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 44.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Shirley CDP earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 4.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Shirley CDP is valued at $378,700, 24.8% above the national figure and 24% below the $497,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 66.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Shirley CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.