Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Woburn, MA

Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located 9 miles north of Boston, and the 2020 census recorded its population as 40,876, with 16,590 households.

Woburn was first settled in 1640 near Horn Pond, a primary source of the Mystic River, and it was officially incorporated as a town in 1642 and incorporated as a city on June 12, 1888.

Woburn got its name from Woburn, Bedfordshire, and it played host to the first religious ordination in the Americas on November 22, 1642, when the Reverend Thomas Carter was sworn in, with Captain Edward Johnson, regarded as the father of Woburn, among those present.

At the time of its incorporation the area of Woburn included the present-day towns of Woburn, Winchester, and Burlington, and parts of Stoneham and Wilmington, with Wilmington separating in 1730, Burlington in 1799, and Winchester in 1850.

The Middlesex Canal was opened through Woburn in 1803, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad started operating through the city in 1835.

Woburn was the scene of a high-profile water contamination crisis after high levels of chemical contamination were found in the city's Wells G and H in 1979, and the resulting lawsuit against W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods was the subject of Jonathan Harr's book A Civil Action, made into a 1998 film starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall.

Woburn uses Massachusetts' mayor-council form of government, and it was the last of Massachusetts' 351 municipalities to refer to members of its city council as 'aldermen'.

The city has a total area of 12.94 square miles, of which 12.65 square miles is land, and it is bordered by the towns of Wilmington, Reading, Stoneham, Winchester, Lexington, and Burlington.

As of the 2020 census, Woburn's median age was 40.8 years, with 18.1 percent of residents under the age of 18 and 17.9 percent aged 65 or older.

The most reported ancestries in Woburn in the 2020 census were Irish at 29.9 percent and Italian at 19.4 percent.