Woburn
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About Woburn
City in Massachusetts, United StatesWoburn ( WOO-bərn) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,876 at the 2020 census. Woburn is located 9 miles (14 km) north of Boston. Woburn uses Massachusetts' mayor-council form of government, in which an elected mayor is the executive and a partly district-based, partly at-large city council is the legislature. It was the last of Massachusetts' 351 municipalities to refer to members of its city council as "aldermen".
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How Woburn ranks
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Housing in Woburn
The typical Woburn home is worth about $759,000, up 2.2% in a year, 15% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A strong seller's market
Safety in Woburn
Safety Grade B
Woburn reports less crime per resident than 57% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Woburn sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Woburn
All Woburn schools →School Grade C+
The public schools Woburn’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 61% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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 Woburn is
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