Census

Data For Massachusetts and its Localities

Census 2010 Demographic Profile for Massachusetts

Massachusetts Population from the 2000 Census

The following tables present statistics for Massachusetts as a whole, for each of its 16 Workforce Investment Areas (WIAs), and for each of its 351 cities and towns (sorted by WIA).

Population counts from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census  
2000 Population by Sex and selected Age cohorts  
2000 Population by Race and Hispanic and Latino origin  
2000 Population by Educational Attainment  

Below are 4-page profiles of general demographic, social, economic and housing characteristics from the 2000 Census. The files available below are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.  

Massachusetts  

Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Select a MSA Barnstable-Yarmouth Boston Boston-Worcester-Lawrence Brockton Fitchburg-Leominster Lawrence Lowell New Bedford Providence, Fall River, Warwick Worcester

Counties

Select a County Barnstable County Berkshire County Bristol County Dukes County Essex County Franklin County Hampden County Hampshire County Middlesex County NorfolkCounty Plymouth County Suffolk County Worcester County

City or town

Select a City or Town Abington Acton Acushnet Adams Agawam Alford Amesbury Amherst Andover Aquinnah Arlington Ashburnham Ashby Ashfield Ashland Athol Attleborough Auburn Avon Ayer Barnstable Barre Becket Bedford Belchertown Bellingham Belmont Berkeley Berlin Bernardston Beverly Billerica Blackstone Blandford Bolton Boston Bourne Boxborough Boxford Boylston Braintree Brewster Bridgewater Brimfield Brockton Brookfield Brookline Buckland Burlington Cambridge Canton Carlisle Carver Charlemont Charlton Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chicopee Chilmark Clarksburg Clinton Cohasset Colrain Concord Conway Cummington Dalton Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Deerfield Dennis Dighton Douglas Dover Dracut Dudley Dunstable Duxbury East Bridgewater East Brookfield East Longmeadow Eastham Easthampton Easton Edgartown Egremont Erving Essex Everett Fairhaven Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Florida Foxborough Framingham Franklin Freetown Gardner Georgetown Gill Gloucester Goshen Gosnold Grafton Granby Granville Great Barrington Greenfield Groton Groveland Hadley Halifax Hamilton Hampden Hancock Hanover Hanson Hardwick Harvard Harwich Hatfield Haverhill Hawley Heath Hingham Hinsdale Holbrook Holden Holland Holliston Holyoke Hopedale Hopkington Hubbardston Hudson Hull Huntington Ipswich Kingston Lakeville Lancaster Lanesborough Lawrence Lee Leicester Lenox Leominster Leverett Lexington Leyden Lincoln Littleton Longmeadow Lowell Ludlow Lunenburg Lynn Lynnfield Malden Manchester-by-the-Sea Mansfield Marion Marblehead Marlborough Marshfield Mashpee Mattapoisett Maynard Medfield Medford Medway Melrose Mendon Merrimac Methuen Middleborough Middlefield Middleton Milford Millbury Millis Millville Milton Monroe Monson Montague Monterey Montgomery Mount Washington Nahant Nantucket Natick Needham New Ashford New Bedford New Braintree New Salem Newbury Newburyport New Marlborough Newton Norfolk North Adams North Andover North Attleborough North Brookfield North Reading Northampton Northborough Northbridge Northfield Norton Norwell Norwood Oak Bluffs Oakham Orange Orleans Otis Oxford Palmer Paxton Peabody Pelham Pembroke Pepperell Peru Petersham Phillipston Pittsfield Plainfield Plainville Plymouth Plympton Princeton Provincetown Quincy Randolph Raynham Reading Rehoboth Revere Richmond Rochester Rockland Rockport Rowe Rowley Royalston Russell Rutland Salem Salisbury Sandisfield Sandwich Saugus Savoy Scituate Seekonk Sharon Sheffield Shelburne Sherborn Shirley Shrewsbury Shutesbury Somerset Somerville Somerset South Hadley Southampton Southborough Southbridge Southwick Spencer Springfield Sterling Stockbridge Stoneham Stoughton Stow Sturbridge Sudbury Sunderland Sutton Swampscott Swansea Taunton Templeton Tewksbury Tisbury Tolland Topsfield Townsend Truro Tyngsborough Tyringham Upton Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walpole Waltham Ware Wareham Warren Warwick Washington Watertown Wayland Webster Wellesley Wellfleet Wendell Wenham West Boylston West Bridgewater West Brookfield West Newbury West Springfield West Stockbridge West Tisbury Westborough Westfield Westford Westhampton Westminster Weston Westport Westwood Weymouth Whately Whitman Wilbraham Williamsburg Williamstown Wilmington Winchendon Winchester Windsor Winthrop Woburn Worcester Worthington Wrentham Yarmouth

Journey to Work Data Based on Census 2000

Transportation and Travel Time:
Indicates modes of transportation used by commuters, amount of time spent commuting, and time of departure from home to work site. Includes carpool figures. Data is presented by state, by WIA and by city and town. Includes absolute figures and percentages.

Select a Workforce Investment Area Massachusetts Berkshire Boston Bristol Brockton Cape and the Islands Central Massachusetts Franklin/Hampshire County Greater Lowell Greater New Bedford Hampden County Merrimack Valley Metro North Metro Southwest North Central South Coastal Southern Essex

Residence to Workplace:
Shows where Massachusetts residents work. Data is presented by state, by WIA and by city and town. Includes absolute figures and percentages.

Select a Workforce Investment Area Massachusetts Berkshire Boston Bristol Brockton Cape and the Islands Central Massachusetts Franklin Hampshire County Greater Lowell Greater New Bedford Hampden County Merrimack Valley Metro North Metro Southwest North Central South Coastal Southern Essex

Workplace by Place of Residence:
Shows where Massachusetts workers reside. Data is presented by state and by WIA (detailed city and town data will soon be available). Includes absolute figures and percentages.

Select a Workforce Investment Area Massachusetts Berkshire Boston Bristol Brockton Cape and the Islands Central Massachusetts Franklin Hampshire County Greater Lowell Greater New Bedford Hampden County Merrimack Valley Metro North Metro Southwest North Central South Coastal Southern Essex

Estimated Daytime Population and Employment-Residence Ratios

Daytime population is a measure of the number of people who are present in an area during normal business hours. Data for estimated daytime population   and employment residence ratios are available for each of the State’s 16 Workforce areas by city and town. Data is included for Massachusetts in each table.

Estimates of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) population groups

The LEP Special Tabulations of Census 2000 Data on Limited English Proficient   in Massachusetts and Workforce Areas is a resource for planning employment and training services. The Information is broken out for 39 Census languages and Language clusters. The tabulation are for Massachusetts and 16 Workforce Areas.

Definitions:

Place of Work
Means of Transportation to Work
Private Vehicle Occupancy
Workers per Car, Truck, or Van
Time Leaving Home to go to Work
Travel Time to Work
Aggregate Travel Time to Work (minutes)
Mean Travel Time to Work (minutes)
Reference Week

Contact list:

To obtain additional information on these and other Census 2000 subjects, see the list of Census 2000 Contacts on the Internet at www.census.gov/contacts/www/c-census2000.html.