Southampton is a community in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES. It was established initially as an area of Northampton in 1732. It was included in 1775. The name Southampton was provided to it throughout its first neighborhood seminar in 1773. Its POSTAL CODE is 01073. Southampton comes from the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community had a populace of 5,792 at the 2010 demographics.

Southampton MA was rated having the very best sampling faucet water in the nation in 2008 by the National Rural Water Organization.

UNITED STATE Legislator Ted Kennedy was connected with a plane accident there in 1964.

According to the U.S.A. Demographics Bureau, the community has a general area of 29.1 square miles (75 km2), of which 28.1 square miles (73 km2) is land along with 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2) (3.20%) is water. Southampton, Mass. is bordered by Easthampton to the northeast, Holyoke to the southeast, Westfield to the south, Montgomery to the southwest, Huntington for a really short dimension on the west, as well as likewise Westhampton to the northwest. Southampton lies 17 miles northwest of Springfield as well as 100 miles to the west of Boston.

Since the demographics of 2000, there were 5,387 people, 1,985 residences, as well as 1,556 households living in the community. The population density was 191.4 people per square mile (73.9/ km ²). There were 2,025 realty tools at an average thickness of 71.9 per square mile (27.8/ kilometres ²). The racial makeup of the community was 98.29% White, 0.20% African American, 0.13% Aboriginal American, 0.63% Eastern, 0.20% from numerous other races, as well as 0.54% from 2 or even more races. Hispanic or Latino of any type of race were 0.87% of the populace.

There were 1,985 homes out of which 36.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.9% were married pairs living together, 8.4% had a women householder without hubby existing, and 21.6% were non-families. Of all families 16.8% were made up of people as well as 6.8% had an individual living alone who was 65 years of ages or older. The ordinary residence dimension was 2.71 as well as the average family size was 3.07.

In the neighborhood, the populace was spread out with 25.5% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 29.2% from 45 to 64, as well as also 9.9% that were 65 years of age or older. The normal age was 39 years. For each single 100 women, there were 94.3 guys. For every single solitary 100 women age 18 and over, there were 95.0 males.

The mean revenue for a household in the community was $61,831, and likewise the average incomes for a family members was $64,960. Males had a typical incomes of $41,544 versus $31,250 for women. The per capita income for the town was $26,205. Worrying 1.8% of households as well as 2.4% of the populace were listed below the poverty line, including 2.8% of those under age 18 as well as additionally 6.5% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people:
Lewis Strong Clarke (1873– 1906), Louisiana sugarcane planter and also 19th century Republican political leader

Nancy Conz (1957– 2017), runner, leader female marathoner. Conz matured in Southampton, Massachusetts. In 1975, Conz finished from Hampshire Regional Senior High School in Massachusetts. Conz currently holds 4 American cross country running files embeded in the extremely early 1980s. Three of those documents, 15,000 meters, 10 miles and the one hour run were set in one track race at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts on June 25, 1981.