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Map of locations by per capita income. Areas with higher levels of income are shaded darker. Massachusetts is the second wealthiest state in the United States of America, with a median household income of $89,026 (as of 2021), and a per capita income of $48,617 (as of 2021). Many of the state's wealthiest towns are located in the Boston suburbs.
These maps show the amount of attention given to each state by the Bush and Kerry campaigns (combined) during the final five weeks of the 2004 election: each waving hand (purple map) represents a visit from a presidential or vice presidential candidate; each dollar sign (green map) represents one million dollars spent on TV advertising.
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 ...
Its 2022 median household income in Massachusetts was $93,550, less than a third of the $301,000 the graphic claims is needed to live comfortably. While the graphic does use real data to calculate ...
Consequently, Massachusetts typically ranks as the top U.S. state, as well as the most expensive state, for residents to live in. Etymology [ edit ] The Massachusetts Bay Colony was named after the Indigenous population, the Massachusett or Muhsachuweesut , whose name likely derived from a Wôpanâak word muswachasut , segmented as mus(ây ...
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is often categorized politically as progressive and liberal. All of the state’s U.S. representatives and senators are Democrats. Democrats also form the large majority of the state’s legislature, though the state has a history of electing Republican governors. As with most states, the two main political ...
Massachusetts is the 7th smallest state in the United States with an area of 10,555 square miles (27,340 km 2 ). [1] It is bordered to the north by New Hampshire and Vermont, to the west by New York, to the south by Connecticut and Rhode Island, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine. Massachusetts is the most populous New ...
The 12 United States statistical areas and 14 counties of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Combined statistical area 2023 population (est.) Core-based statistical area 2023 population (est.) County 2023 population (est.) Metropolitan division 2023 population (est.) Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH CSA: 8,345,067 6,145,689 (MA)