Waltham
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Outdoors in Waltham
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About Waltham
City in Massachusetts, United StatesWaltham ( WAWL-tham) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning, spawning what became known as the Waltham-Lowell system of labor and production. The city is now a center for research and higher education as home to Brandeis University and Bentley University. The population was 65,218 at the 2020 United States census. Waltham is part of the Greater Boston area and lies 9 miles (14 km) west of Downtown Boston. Waltham has been called "Watc…
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How Waltham ranks
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Housing in Waltham
The typical Waltham home is worth about $819,000, up 1.1% in a year, 24% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Waltham
Safety Grade B
Waltham reports less crime per resident than 55% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Waltham sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Waltham
All Waltham schools →School Grade C
The public schools Waltham’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 75% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within MA. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Waltham is
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