South Deerfield, Massachusetts South Deerfield, Massachusetts Town Deerfield South Deerfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
At the 2010 census, the populace of South Deerfield was 1,880. South Deerfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Thereafter called Bloody Brook or Muddy Brook, South Deerfield in 1809 attempted to be set off from Deerfield in part because of the distance to its meetinghouse and in part because of theological differences with its minister, the Reverend Samuel Willard.
The grant was refused, and the village remained part of Deerfield, but South Deerfield nevertheless dedicated its own meetinghouse in 1821.
There are a range of retail and service establishments in South Deerfield, including a hardware store, a family restaurant, the Polish American Citizens Club, and a small brewery called Berkshire Brewing Company (BBC).
The town's Tilton Library and Frontier Regional High School are also in South Deerfield.
South Deerfield is positioned at 42 28 37 N 72 36 02 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 8.4 km (3.3 mi ), of which 8.1 km (3.1 mi ) is territory and 0.3 km (0.1 mi ) (3.37%) is water.
South Deerfield is drained by the Deerfield and Connecticut rivers.
There were 821 homeholds out of which 22.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.3% were non-families.
In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 18.9% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 27.1% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $43,984, and the median income for a family was $65,298.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): South Deerfield CDP, Massachusetts".
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