| Demographics:
At A Glance Report for Southborough |
| Socioeconomic |
County |
Worcester |
School Structure |
K-08 |
Form of Government |
Town Administrator
Selectmen
Open Town Meeting |
2007 Population |
9,484 |
2008 Labor Force |
4,930 |
2008 Unemployment Rate |
3.9 |
2007 Median Household Income (estimate) |
$133,348 |
2007 Population Per Square Mile |
670.3 |
2007 Housing Units Per Square Mile |
211.8 |
2007 Road Miles |
84.20 |
EQV Per Capita (2006 EQV/2006 Population) |
245,790 |
Number of Registered Vehicles (January 2008) |
11,263 |
Average Age of Vehicles (January 2008) |
8.19 |
2008 Number of Registered Voters |
6,704 |
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History:
If you live in Southborough, chances are that quite often
you'll find yourself driving across or past a reservoir
in your comings and goings around town. These tree-ringed
reservoirs, complete with rock outcroppings, even a small
island, here or there, do much to create the town's image
as a quiet pastoral place. But, beyond enhancing the aesthetics,
these several bodies of water and the aqueduct represent
a major turning point in the town's history. The taking
of land for their construction in the late 1800s-nearly
2,000 acres in all-changed the character of Southborough's
four villages permanently. As town historian Richard Noble
put it, they would "forever alter" the town.
Here's why that statement is true.
From its earliest days as "Stony Brook," as
this southern portion of the new town of Marlboro was
known in the late 1600s, through its separation as a town
of its own on July 17, 1727, and continuing into the first
two centuries of its existence, Southborough, like its
neighbors, was primarily a farming community. Yes, there
were the necessary saw and grain mills, even an iron works,
but most of its inhabitants made their livings tilling
the soil, cultivating their orchards, or tending their
dairy herds.
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