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Suffolk County (/ ˈ s ʌ f ə k / SUF-ək) is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 797,936, [1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Massachusetts. [2] The county comprises the cities of Boston, Chelsea, and Revere, and the town of Winthrop. [3]
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
Boston was a prominent port of the Atlantic slave trade in the New England Colonies, but was soon overtaken by Salem, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island. [63] Boston eventually became a center of the American abolitionist movement. [64]
Middlesex County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 1,632,002, [ 1 ] making it the most populous county in both Massachusetts and New England and the 22nd most populous county in the United States .
Two definitions are used by the United States Census to define the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metro Area or Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan NECTA, which is defined as a New England City and Town Area. [21] [22] The metro area definition is based on counties, while the NECTA definition is based on city and town ...
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census , the total population was 809,829, [ 1 ] making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country .
The county was named after the English county of the same name. [3] Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves. Norfolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Norfolk County is the 24th highest-income county in the United States with a median household income of $107,361. It is the ...
In October 1873, the Town of Brighton in Middlesex County voted to annex itself to the City of Boston in Suffolk County, and in January 1874 Brighton officially became part of the City of Boston. Allston–Brighton's population grew rapidly in the next 50 years, rising from 6,000 in 1875 to 47,000 by 1925.