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Welcome to the Waltham Home page. The Waltham Home page provides as much information as possible on Waltham. Knowing Waltham’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Waltham’s Home page, you will also find Waltham’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Waltham has a population of 62597. 48.3% of Waltham’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 37.6% of Waltham is married and 50% own their own home. The Average Home price is $573,950, and the average rent is $1,774. Household median income in Waltham is $95,851, and the individual median income is $41,068. Waltham’s Ethnic is the following: White(70.5%), Hispanic(14.3%), Asian(11.8%), Black(7.6%), Other(5.3%), Multiple(4.3%), Native(0.5%).


Waltham ( 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, home to Brandeis University and Bentley University as well as industrial powerhouse Raytheon Technologies. The population was 65,218 at the census in 2020.Waltham has been called "watch city" because of its association with the watch industry.


Waltham Watch Company opened its factory in Waltham in 1854 and was the first company to make watches on an assembly line. It won the gold medal in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. The company produced over 35 million watches, clocks and instruments before it closed in 1957.


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