2024 Best Places to Live in Middlesex County

Stow

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A

• Population 7,130

Ashland

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A

• Population 18,646

Reading

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A minus

• Population 25,483

Holliston

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A

• Population 14,891

Dunstable

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A

• Population 3,369

Chelmsford

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A

• Population 36,271

Littleton

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade A minus

• Population 10,063

Medford

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A minus

• grade B minus

• Population 60,708

Waltham

• Town in Massachusetts

• grade A

• grade B

• Population 64,655

Maynard

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A

• grade B

• Population 10,702

Wilmington

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A minus

• grade A minus

• Population 23,311

Tyngsborough

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A minus

• grade B

• Population 12,377

Ayer

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade B minus

• Population 8,396

Littleton Common

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade A minus

• Population 3,036

Stoneham

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A minus

• grade A minus

• Population 23,077

Framingham

• Town in Massachusetts

• grade B+

• grade B

• Population 72,089

North Reading

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade A minus

• grade A

• Population 15,549

Malden

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade B

• Population 65,602

Hudson

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade B minus

• Population 20,032

Wakefield

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade B

• Population 27,041

Billerica

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade B+

• Population 41,995

Pinehurst

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B

• grade B+

• Population 6,653

Shirley

• grade B

• grade B minus

• Population 7,400

Townsend

• grade B

• grade B

• Population 9,144

Marlborough

• Suburb of Boston, MA

• grade B+

• grade B minus

• Population 41,505