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The most restrictive definition of the Greater Boston area is the region administered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. [17] The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Boston is considered the cultural and historical capital of New England. [1] [2] According to the 2018 American Community Survey, New England had an estimated population of 14,853,290, of which 48.7% were male and 51.3% were female. Approximately 19.7% of the population were under 18 years of age; 17.4% were 65 years of age or over. [3]
Data from the American Community Survey 2022, which includes women ages 15–50, suggests a slightly lower fertility rate (4.3%). People who gave birth in the past year, as of 2022 data, in Massachusetts were primarily in the 30–35 age range (11.2%) or in the 35–39 age range (8.1%). [6]
Brookline (/ ˈ b r ʊ k l aɪ n / ⓘ) is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.An exclave of Norfolk County, Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury.
Under the General Laws, gateway cities have a population between 35,000 and 250,000, with an average household income below the state average, and an average educational attainment rate (bachelor's degree or above) below the state average. Updates to the Census data in 2013 led to the addition of two cities (Attleboro and Peabody) for a total ...
The largest population of Puerto Ricans in the United States, per capita, is in Holyoke, Massachusetts, comprising 44.8% of all residents in the 2010 Census. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Massachusetts ranks first in the nation (out of 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. ) for percentage of Hispanics of non- Mexican origin, with 94% of the Hispanic population ...
Incorporated in 1700, it is located in Middlesex County and the MetroWest subregion of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The city proper covers 25 square miles (65 km 2 ) with a population of 72,362 in 2020 , [ 2 ] making it the 14th most populous municipality in Massachusetts. [ 3 ]