Demographics of Massachusetts

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Massachusetts had about 7.2 million people in 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is 1.8% more than the 7.029 million of the 2020 census. Massachusetts is the sixteenth most populous U.S. state. Massachusetts experiences significant population churn, with some Bay Staters leaving every year and many others arriving, including immigrants from across the United States and the world. Massachusetts in 2020 included 1.2 million foreign-born residents. Most Bay Staters live within a 60-mile radius of the State House on Beacon Hill, often called Greater Boston: the City of Boston, neighboring cities and towns, the North Shore, South Shore, the northern, western, and southern suburbs, and most of southeastern and central Massachusetts. Eastern Massachusetts is more urban than Western Massachusetts, which is primarily rural, save for the cities of Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, and Northampton, which serve as centers of population density in the Pioneer Valley of the Connecticut River...

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