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Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Dorchester, including Mid Dorchester, is Boston's largest neighborhood and predominantly a working class community considered to be Boston's most diverse. Roxbury is populated largely by African Americans, Caribbean Americans and Latinos and is historically the center of Boston's black community.
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 Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Clark-Cooper Community Gardens, and historic Forest Hill Cemetery all in Forest Hills of West Roxbury are considered by some green space within the neighborhood of Mattapan. Mattapan's demographics are diverse, with a large population of Haitians, Caribbean immigrants, and African Americans. [3]
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 ...
Boston is joining other communities across the U.S. with large numbers of university students in planning to challenge the results of the once-a-decade head count, saying the 2020 census ...
Map showing the locations of Dorchester neighborhoods including Savin Hill. Savin Hill is a section of Dorchester, the largest neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [2] Named after the geographic feature it covers and surrounds, Savin Hill is about one square mile in area, and has a population of about 15,000 people.
The biggest influxes are Latin Americans. According to the census, the population of Central Americans rose by 67.7% between 2000 and 2005, and the number of South Americans rose by 107.5%. And among South Americans, the largest group to increase appeared to be Brazilians, whose numbers rose by 131.4%, to 84,836.