Criminal defense marketing for Middlesex County.
Middlesex County is the biggest county in Massachusetts: 54 cities and towns and about 1.6 million people. Twelve district courts run from Cambridge and Somerville out to Lowell and Ayer. It is one slice of the larger Metro Boston and Eastern Mass market, with its own courthouses. This page is a first draft. I will keep adding to it.
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One county, one page. Middlesex County has 54 cities and towns and 1,632,002 people in the 2020 Census. Twelve courts hear its district-level criminal cases: Lowell, Malden, Cambridge, Framingham, Woburn, Waltham, Ayer, Somerville, Marlborough, Concord, Natick, and Newton.
Two things trip people up. Cambridge District Court and Malden District Court both sit at 4040 Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford. And Natick District Court sits in the Framingham courthouse at 600 Concord Street. So the name on the court is not always the town where you park.
The Middlesex County courts
Court and town list checked against G.L. c. 218, § 1, October 2026. Listed busiest first.
District Courts
- Lowell District Court: The busiest court in the county by a wide margin.
- Malden District Court: The First District Court of Eastern Middlesex. It sits in Medford, in the same building as Cambridge District Court.
- Cambridge District Court: The Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex. It sits at 4040 Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford, not in Cambridge.
- Framingham District Court: The First District Court of Southern Middlesex, at 600 Concord Street.
- Woburn District Court: The Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex.
- Waltham District Court: The Second District Court of Eastern Middlesex.
District Courts, continued
- Ayer District Court: The First District Court of Northern Middlesex. Ten towns, the most of any court in the county.
- Somerville District Court: Two cities, one court.
- Marlborough District Court: Two communities, and one of the highest filing rates in the county.
- Concord District Court: The District Court of Central Middlesex.
- Natick District Court: It sits in the Framingham courthouse at 600 Concord Street, not in Natick.
- Newton District Court: One city, one court, and the lowest filing rate in the county.
Above district level
- Middlesex Superior Court: sits in Woburn and Lowell.addresses and FY2025 filings to add
Lowell is the busiest court here by a wide margin, with more than twice the filings of Malden or Cambridge. Together the twelve courts had 22,065 criminal filings in FY2025, about 15.5% of the District Court and Boston Municipal Court criminal filings statewide. That works out to about 13.5 filings per 1,000 residents. Lowell also has the highest rate, about 21 per 1,000. Marlborough and Natick are small courts with high rates, about 18 per 1,000 each. Newton has the lowest, about 6 per 1,000.
Caseload figures are new criminal case filings for FY2025 from the Massachusetts Trial Court criminal case data, the same figures shown on my Massachusetts page. Population is from the 2020 Census, added up by town. Filings are counted where the case was filed, not where the defendant lives. Counts change, so confirm before relying on them.
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