Medford

Medford is a city in , United States. At the time of the 2020 United States census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus on both sides of the Medford and border.
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  • Type: City with 62,100 residents
  • Description: city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Medford, MA”, “Medford, Massachusetts”, “Mistic”, and “Mystic”
  • Postal codes: 02153 and 02155

Places of Interest

Highlights include Medford/Tufts station and Medford City Hall.

Railway station
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is a light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line located off Boston Avenue near College Avenue in Medford, Massachusetts, adjacent to Tufts University.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Library
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The library system of Tufts University supports all academic departments comprising the university, located in in the U.S. state of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Malden and Somerville.

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is a suburb of in the state of . Its population was 66,000 in the 2020 census.

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Older Bostonians might still derisively call it "Slummerville", but today that tired old moniker couldn't be further from the truth. Packed with upwardly mobile professionals and longtime residents, is often voted an "All-America City" and the best-run city in .

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is a town of 46,000 people in . It is a largely residential town; many of its residents are employed in Cambridge, Boston and surrounding towns.

Medford

Latitude
42.4184° or 42° 25′ 6″ north
Longitude
-71.1062° or 71° 6′ 22″ west
Population
62,100
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US MFC
Open location code
87JCCV9V+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158860087
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4943629
Wiki­data ID
Q54145
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Medford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميدفورد”
  • Armenian: “Մեդֆորդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Medford”
  • Basque: “Medford”
  • Belarusian: “Медфард”
  • Catalan: “Medford”
  • Cebuano: “Medford”
  • Chechen: “Медфорд”
  • Chinese: “Medford”
  • Chinese: “密德福德”
  • Chinese: “梅德福”
  • Chinese: “梅特福德”
  • Chinese: “米德福德”
  • Czech: “Medford”
  • Dagbani: “Medford”
  • Danish: “Medford”
  • Dutch: “Medford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدفورد”
  • Finnish: “Medford”
  • French: “Medford”
  • Galician: “Medford”
  • German: “Medford”
  • Gilaki: “مدفؤرد (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “مدفؤرد”
  • Greek: “Μέντφορντ”
  • Haitian: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Medford”
  • Hebrew: “מדפורד, מסצ’וסטס”
  • Hebrew: “מדפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Medford”
  • Irish: “Medford”
  • Italian: “Medford”
  • Japanese: “メドフォード”
  • Kazakh: “Мэдфорд”
  • Kirghiz: “Мэдфорд”
  • Korean: “메드퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Medford”
  • Malagasy: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Medford”
  • Mazanderani: “مدفورد (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “مدفورد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Medford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medford”
  • Norwegian: “Medford”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Medford”
  • Persian: “مدفورد، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “مدفورد”
  • Polish: “Medford”
  • Portuguese: “Medford”
  • Russian: “Медфорд”
  • Serbian: “Медфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Medford”
  • Silesian: “Medford”
  • Slovak: “Medford”
  • Slovenian: “Medford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مدفورد، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Medford (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Medford”
  • Swahili: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Medford”
  • Swedish: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Medford”
  • Talysh: “Medford”
  • Tatar: “Медфорд”
  • Turkish: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Medford”
  • Ukrainian: “Медфорд”
  • Urdu: “میڈفورڈ، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “میڈفورڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Medford”
  • Vietnamese: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Medford”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Medford”
  • Volapük: “Medford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Medford”
  • Welsh: “Medford, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Medford”

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