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Medford's largest employment sectors are professional, scientific, and technical services, healthcare and social assistance, and educational services, together accounting for well over 16,000 jobs in a city where total employment recently grew about 2.6 percent year over year to roughly 36,400 workers. Tufts University, straddling the Medford-Somerville line, is the city's most significant institutional anchor and a major direct employer.

Middlesex County places Medford inside the greater Boston labor market rather than a standalone economy, with MBTA connections including the Wellington Orange Line station and, since the 2022 Green Line Extension, the Medford/Tufts and Ball Square stops. That transit access ties Medford's roughly 60,000 residents into Boston's broader professional-services and biotech economy while still supporting local commercial activity around its own neighborhoods and squares.

With healthcare, education, and professional services as the dominant employment sectors, Medford has a workforce of commuters, university-affiliated staff, and healthcare workers who need dependable local providers, plumbers, electricians, dentists, and lawyers on schedules built around commuting and campus calendars rather than a single dominant employer's shift pattern.