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Massachusetts Counties

Counties

County Basics

The tables below feature information about every in . (Note: Louisiana is divided into parishes, Alaska into boroughs.) The first table lists each ’s name, the seat, area in square miles, area in square kilometers (km), population density (number of people per square mile), density per square kilometer (km) and population. County (or parish, borough) seats that also serve as state capitals are highlighted in yellow. The second table focuses on race.

You can see this information for all fifty states at Reference > North America > USA > Counties. Also, see the Counties home page.
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Name Seat Area (km) Density (km) Pop(2000) Pop(1990)
Barnstable Barnstable 396 1,025 472 182 222,230 186,605
Berkshire Pittsfield 931 2,412 150 58 134,953 139,352
Bristol Taunton 556 1,440 911 352 534,678 506,325
Dukes Edgartown 104 269 112 43 14,987 11,639
Essex Salem 498 1,290 1,345 519 723,419 670,080
Franklin Greenfield 702 1,819 100 39 71,535 70,092
Hampden Springfield 619 1,602 738 285 456,228 456,310
Hampshire Northampton 529 1,370 277 107 152,251 146,568
Middlesex Cambridge 824 2,133 1,698 656 1,465,396 1,398,468
Nantucket Nantucket 48 124 126 49 9,520 6,012
Norfolk Dedham 400 1,035 1,542 595 650,308 616,087
Plymouth Plymouth 661 1,711 659 254 472,822 435,276
Suffolk Boston 59 152 11,345 4,380 689,807 663,906
Worcester Worcester 1,513 3,919 469 181 750,963 709,705
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

Race

The table below lists the population of various ethnic and cultural groups in : Native American (American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut), white (Caucasian), black (African American), Asian American, Pacific Islander, “Some Other Race,” people whose ancestry includes two or more races, and Hispanic.
County Native White Black Asian PI Other Race2 Hisp
Barnstable 1,235 209,398 3,969 1,401 55 2 3,697 3,000
Berkshire 196 128,235 2,679 1,333 49 796 1,665 2,286
Bristol 1,308 486,434 10,856 6,728 145 16 12,512 19,242
Dukes 256 13,592 359 69 11 222 478 155
Essex 1,694 625,320 18,777 16,916 288 44 15,547 79,871
Franklin 205 68,244 637 741 19 534 1,155 1,425
Hampden 1,201 360,889 36,935 5,918 313 40 10,605 69,197
Hampshire 292 138,704 2,980 5,177 77 2 2,738 5,212
Middlesex 2,206 1,258,476 49,310 91,685 540 30 32,800 66,707
Nantucket 1 8,363 789 61 4 152 150 212
Norfolk 829 578,904 20,674 35,756 160 5 8,903 11,990
Plymouth 1,007 419,370 21,573 4,352 110 14 11,927 11,537
Suffolk 2,689 398,442 153,418 48,287 441 56 30,188 107,031
Worcester 1,896 672,915 20,498 19,700 277 22 13,640 50,864
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)


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