The One Minute Geographer: Massachusetts (4): Demography, Social Well-Being and Immigration

Boston from Boston Harbor. Photo from bu.edu

What’s up with the 7 million people in Massachusetts? Population grew 7.4% from 2010 to 2020, a rate exactly the same as the US as a whole. Massachusetts, of course, is a very urbanized state, ranking second, after New Jersey, with 92% of its population living in densely urbanized regions.