Middlesex County, Massachusetts Introduction
Middlesex County is part of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Area. Interestingly, The county serves only as a geographical boundary – back in 1997, the Massachusetts legislature abolished the Middlesex County government because it had become insolvent. Property taxes, education, road maintenance and other traditional county duties are actually handled by individual municipalities throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state government takes care of everything else.

Middlesex County has a large population, several thriving industries, and one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the nation – one that predates the nation by a solid century. It offers easy access to New England megalopolis like Boston, and has enough of its own art and culture to be completely overshadowed by its neighbor in Suffolk County. It has a lot to recommend it.

Here, we’ll explore the parts of the area of most interest to Middlesex County condo investors, as well as people eager to move to the area. This will include the largest cities in the ‘county’, Cambridge and Lowell, as well as the up-and-coming city of Somerville, Massachusetts. We’ll also look at some of the neighborhoods in these cities which typically prove most attractive to anyone looking to buy a condo in Middlesex County.


The Climate in Middlesex County
Middlesex County is wet, with comfortable summers and cool winters. On average, it gets 48 inches of rain each year, where the US average is 38. In addition, it gets 52 inches of snow most years, where the US as a whole averages 28 inches.

However, Middlesex County isn’t ‘rainy’. It gets, on average, 200 sunny days per year. The national average is 205, so you would be unlikely to notice the difference. It gets some kind of precipitation – rain or snow – 129 days out of the average year.

Of more interest to anyone looking to rent a condo in Middlesex County, Massachusetts is the temperature. Middlesex County’s hottest days are usually in July, when the average high temperature is just 83 degrees F. The coldest month is typically January, when the overnight low temperatures average at 17 degrees F.


Things To See And Do In Middlesex County
Middlesex County is the most densely populated in New England, and a solid part of the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Area. That means if you do buy a Middlesex County condo, there will always be something happening a short drive from you… or even just across the street.

Examples include hiking the Walden Pond State Reservation, exploring the Harvard Museum of Natural History, spending the day at the MIT Museum or the Harvard Art Museums, taking a picnic to John F. Kennedy Park, exploring Lowell National Historic Park, canoeing or kayaking the Charles River, taking the kids to the Legoland Discovery Center or biking the Battle Road Trail.