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Palmer Town, Massachusetts.

A city in Hampden County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Hampden County’s.

Living in Palmer Town, Hampden County, Massachusetts

Palmer Town is a city of 12,448 people in Hampden County. Half its households earn more than $78,480 a year and half less, against $71,306 across Hampden County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Palmer Town was 4.5% in August 2026, and Hampden County had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 12,448 in the 2020 census
Household income $78,480 the median, give or take $7,854 · Hampden County: $71,306
Unemployment 4.5% Palmer Town, August 2026; 4.7% a year before
Homes 72% lived in by their owners; 28% rented
  • 5,496households
  • 24%of adults have a degree
  • 8%below the poverty line
  • 31 mintypical commute
  • 7%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care28%
  • Shops (retail)21%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities7%
  • Building trades5%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampden County had 201,216 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 33° and 15°; warmest in July, 82° and 60° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 33° 15° F M A M J J 82° 60° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 33° and 15°; warmest in July, 82° and 60° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 33° 15° F M A M J J 82° 60° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 48 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belchertown weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Palmer Town

  1. Baystate Wing Hospital & Medical CTRGeneral hospital434FTE
  2. Northern Tree ServiceTree services258
  3. Palmer Healthcare CenterNursing homes225
  4. Palmer SchoolsSchool district209FTE
  5. Northern General ContractorsBridge construction130
  6. Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support OfficePavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction129
  7. Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical SchoolsSchool district120FTE
  8. Sanderson MacLeodBrooms, hand and machine, manufacturing88

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,753 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. HurricanesRelatively moderate
  2. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  3. Inland floodingRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Palmer Town’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Hampden County.