The county covering the city of Boston saw one of the nation’s biggest percentage declines in population during the first full year of the pandemic as migration to the South and West intensified.
Massachusetts added 9,868 people in the last year, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau
The state’s U.S. Census liaison is reporting “encouraging numbers” about population growth ahead of next year’s Census, with the largest population increases since the 2010 Census in the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Everett and Lowell.
A new report from commercial real estate site Commercial Cafe has found the 10 best Boston-area suburbs for prospective homebuyers looking for the shortest commutes into Boston.
Most of Massachusetts’ population growth since 2010 has been focused in Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex counties, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released late last week.
Construction employment in the Greater Boston area in January was up by 2.69 percent over January 2018.
Median household income in Massachusetts rose by less than 1 percent in 2017, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data, while the state’s poverty rate was flat and there was an uptick in people without health insurance.
U.S. retail sales for the month of June were $506.8 billion, an increase of 0.5 percent from the prior month and up 6.6 percent year-over-year, according to the Census Bureau.
