[6] At the time of the American Revolution, the population was about 1,000 people, and the citizens were involved early in resisting British rule.

They boycotted the consumption of tea in 1770 to protest the Revenue Act of 1766, and it was also the first town to petition the colonial government to secede from the British Empire.

[8] Malden is bordered by Melrose on the north, Medford on the west, Everett on the south, Revere on the east, and Saugus on the northeast.

8.6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race (1.8% Puerto Rican, 1.7% Brazilian, 1.5% Salvadoran, 0.9% Colombian, 0.7% Dominican, 0.5% Mexican, 0.4% Peruvian, 0.4% Guatemalan).

Malden also received Jews who arrived escaping Europe before and after World War II.

[25] Institutions serving the Asian community in Malden include the Immigrant Learning Center, which offers English as a second language classes; the Malden Asian Pacific American Coalition; a satellite office of the Vietnamese American Civic Association; the nonprofit multiservice organization Great Wall Center; and the antipoverty agency Tri-City Community Action Program Inc.[24] In the 2017, South Cove Community Health center began building a new site in Malden to serve the growing Asian American population.

The elementary schools in Malden were replaced in the late 1990s with five new facilities: Beebe, Ferryway, Forestdale, Linden, and Salemwood.

Some of the neighborhoods in Malden include Faulkner (location of the former Suffolk Square), West End, Edgeworth, Linden, Ferryway, Forestdale, Maplewood, Bellrock, and Belmont Hill (located between Bellrock and Ferryway).

The Converse Rubber Factory and offices once operated in Edgeworth at the bottom of Pearl Street.

Malden Catholic High School was originally located in Edgeworth on Highland Avenue.

The school's football team played their home games at Brother Gilbert Stadium, located at Commercial and Medford Streets in Edgeworth.

Immaculate Conception Grammar School was located in Edgeworth on the corner of Charles Street and Highland Avenue.

In 1847, Joshua Webster, president of the Saugus Branch Railroad, purchased 200 acres in Malden along its projected route.

[33] Christensen was most recently elected to this position on November 5, 2019 and his current four-year term expires at the end of 2023.

[35] One limited access route, U.S. 1, runs through the city, connecting Boston to the North Shore suburbs.

During the first few years of the 2000s, the MBTA updated signal systems and Orange Line service was replaced by shuttle buses at night.

Since September 2007, such service interruptions have been limited to occasional weekends, while signal system repairs necessitated closing off the northern portion of the Orange Line and rerouting passengers via replacement bus service from either the Haymarket subway stop or Wellington Station.

There is a sizable section of the old Boston and Maine Saugus Branch Railroad line running across the middle of Malden.

[36] The paved section of Northern Strand trail currently extends from Wellington Street in Everett through Linden Square at the Malden/Revere.

The unpaved section of the trail as of July 2019 runs through Revere and Saugus to Boston Street at the Lynn line.

Other sites include a 400-meter synthetic running track at MacDonald Stadium; 56 acres (23 ha) of the Middlesex Fells Reservation; the 25-acre (10 ha) Fellsmere Pond; a DCR-owned-and-operated swimming pool; a 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) field house built under the new school rebuilding plan; the state-of-the-art Malden YMCA finished construction in early 2007; and Pine Banks Park, operated by a board of trustees with equal representation by the cities of Malden and Melrose.

Other points of interest include the Converse Memorial Library and the Congregation Beth Israel.

One of Malden's finest and most notable landmarks is the public library which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and built in 1885.