U.S. Census Bureau · 2025 Population Estimates Program (PEP)
Massachusetts County Population — 2025 PEP
July 1, 2025 resident population estimates for 14 counties. State total (sum of these county estimates): 7,154,084 persons.
Separate 2025 TIGER/Line county boundaries validate county identity; these are not ACS 2024 survey estimates.
Official Vintage 2025 county identities and unsimplified TIGER coordinates; separate-period ACS housing is joined only by exact full GEOID. Original 2020 counts require separately evidenced compatible geography; incompatible observations remain null with reasons. The revised April estimates base is not an original census count; no boundary allocation is invented.
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2025 Census PEP county estimates, 2020–2025 series; counts are persons, migration counts are persons, published rates are per 1,000, and unavailable values remain null (not zero). 2020 rates are unavailable for the partial-year interval. County totals and characteristics are verified against the pinned raw Census CSV receipts and independent 2025 county geometry.
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Official state totals and county summaries
Official NST July 1, 2025 state total: 7,154,084 persons (SUMLEV 040, PEP Vintage 2025). County sum: 7,154,084 persons; comparison status: equal.
Official NST July 2020: 6,985,320 persons; July 2020–July 2025 change: +168,764 persons; growth: 2.415981 percent (denominator: official July 2020 population).
County July 2024–July 2025: Growing: 8 · Shrinking: 6 · Unchanged: 0 · Missing: 0. Median county growth: 0.128494 percent.
Largest county: Middlesex County (GEOID 25017): 1669979 persons.
Fastest county growth: Worcester County (GEOID 25027): 0.540894 percent.
Greatest numeric increase: Middlesex County (GEOID 25017): 6050 persons.
no minimum population; missing excluded per measure; median of county percentages, not population weighted; equal values use ascending full GEOID.
Official state demographics
Resident population · SUMLEV 040 · July 1, 2025 · Census PEP Vintage 2025. Denominator for every share: 7,154,084 resident persons. Six exclusive race groups; Hispanic origin overlaps race and must not be added to it. Release: June 2026; exact day unproved; PEP estimates have no ACS sampling MOE.
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| Measure | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Female | 3,690,204 persons | 51.581782 percent |
| Male | 3,463,880 persons | 48.418218 percent |
| Ages 18–24 | 706,187 persons | 9.871103 percent |
| Ages 25–44 | 1,963,225 persons | 27.442018 percent |
| Ages 45–64 | 1,735,305 persons | 24.256145 percent |
| Ages 65 and older | 1,421,793 persons | 19.873865 percent |
| Under 18 | 1,327,574 persons | 18.556869 percent |
| American Indian or Alaska Native alone | 64,446 persons | 0.900828 percent |
| Asian alone | 604,571 persons | 8.450712 percent |
| Black or African American alone | 732,464 persons | 10.238404 percent |
| Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone | 6,890 persons | 0.096309 percent |
| Two or more races | 287,658 persons | 4.020892 percent |
| White alone | 5,458,055 persons | 76.292856 percent |
| Hispanic (any race) | 1,035,155 persons | 14.469428 percent |
| Not Hispanic | 6,118,929 persons | 85.530572 percent |
Official state median age: 40.4 years. Published state SYASEX median age; not a county aggregation, not ACS.
Revised April 1, 2020 estimates base (official NST): 7,033,112 persons; county base sum: 7,033,112 persons; comparison: equal. This is not the original decennial census count.
Original April 1, 2020 Census count: 14 compatible counties; 0 unavailable. Published Census county centers-of-population POPULATION, original 2020 Gazetteer and official 2020–2025 geographic-change evidence; no boundary allocation. Original count, revised April estimates base and July 2020 estimate are separate observations. Documentation: November 2021; exact file release day unproved; retrieval is not release. Official original count source. Original 2020 Gazetteer identity plus Census geographic-change notes 2014–2025; no county-level change recorded from 2020 onward, exact full modern name, and original count required. Any recorded county-level change or referenced counterparty is conservatively unavailable, including unresolved internal redistricting. Same GEOID alone is insufficient. Not a claim of identical cartographic coordinates; no invented allocations.
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County population and demographic explorer
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PEP population · persons · July 1, 2025. Denominator: none. Calculation/source: CO POPESTIMATEy. Vintage 2025; null with metric_status reason; measured zero remains zero; no imputation.
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Selected county demographic breakdown
July 1, 2025 · Middlesex County (GEOID 25017). Same-period county population is the share denominator. Hispanic origin overlaps race; do not add origin to race counts. Other overlapping classifications are not additive. Official county median age is from PEP AGESEX MEDIAN_AGE_TOT, not ACS.
| Classification / source | Count or statistic | Share / status |
|---|---|---|
| Sex · PEP male | 818,210 persons | 48.995227 percent |
| Sex · PEP female | 851,769 persons | 51.004773 percent |
| Age bands · PEP under18 | 312,696 persons | 18.724547 percent |
| Age bands · PEP age18 24 | 162,447 persons | 9.727488 percent |
| Age bands · PEP age25 44 | 493,709 persons | 29.563785 percent |
| Age bands · PEP age45 64 | 400,168 persons | 23.962457 percent |
| Age bands · PEP age65plus | 300,959 persons | 18.021724 percent |
| Race alone (partition) · PEP white alone | 1,218,783 persons | 72.981936 percent |
| Race alone (partition) · PEP black alone | 114,183 persons | 6.837391 percent |
| Race alone (partition) · PEP aian alone | 9,972 persons | 0.597133 percent |
| Race alone (partition) · PEP asian alone | 258,448 persons | 15.476123 percent |
| Race alone (partition) · PEP nhpi alone | 1,085 persons | 0.064971 percent |
| Race alone (partition) · PEP two or more | 67,508 persons | 4.042446 percent |
| Hispanic origin (overlaps race) · PEP hispanic any race | 168,756 persons | 10.105277 percent |
| Hispanic origin (overlaps race) · PEP not hispanic | 1,501,223 persons | 89.894723 percent |
| Other overlapping classifications (not additive) · PEP white alone or combination | 1,282,986 persons | 76.826475 percent |
| Other overlapping classifications (not additive) · PEP not hispanic white alone | 1,094,571 persons | 65.543998 percent |
| Official county median age · AGESEX MEDIAN_AGE_TOT | 39.1 years | Not a share; not ACS or an average of county medians |
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2025 county population rankings
All 14 county estimates are present without JavaScript, ranked by 2025 population (largest first). Signed changes compare July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025. Unavailable is not zero; equal values break ties by GEOID (ascending).
Showing all 14 counties; ranked by 2025 population, descending.
| Rank | County | GEOID | Population (persons) | Signed change (persons) | Signed change (percent) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlesex County | 25017 | 1,669,979 | +6050 persons | +0.363597% |
| 2 | Worcester County | 25027 | 888,502 | +4780 persons | +0.540894% |
| 3 | Essex County | 25009 | 826,653 | +483 persons | +0.058463% |
| 4 | Suffolk County | 25025 | 791,891 | -1644 persons | -0.207174% |
| 5 | Norfolk County | 25021 | 739,749 | +2148 persons | +0.291214% |
| 6 | Bristol County | 25005 | 593,640 | +2775 persons | +0.469650% |
| 7 | Plymouth County | 25023 | 546,829 | +2166 persons | +0.397677% |
| 8 | Hampden County | 25013 | 464,338 | +920 persons | +0.198525% |
| 9 | Barnstable County | 25001 | 233,539 | -412 persons | -0.176105% |
| 10 | Hampshire County | 25015 | 164,065 | -614 persons | -0.372847% |
| 11 | Berkshire County | 25003 | 128,224 | -825 persons | -0.639292% |
| 12 | Franklin County | 25011 | 70,698 | -213 persons | -0.300377% |
| 13 | Dukes County | 25007 | 21,219 | -135 persons | -0.632200% |
| 14 | Nantucket County | 25019 | 14,758 | +45 persons | +0.305852% |
County population trend · 2020–2025
Resident population (persons), not ACS housing. April 1, 2020 estimates base is distinct from the July 1, 2020 estimate. The April–July 2020 change is partial-year; the July 2020–July 2021 interval is the first July-to-July comparison. No 2020 annual rate is shown. Missing observations are unavailable, never zero.
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| Date | Population (persons) | Interval |
|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2020 base | 1,631,912 | Estimates base; not July 1 |
| July 1, 2020 | 1,624,461 | April–July partial-year; no annual rate |
| July 1, 2021 | 1,614,929 | July 2020–July 2021 comparison |
| July 1, 2022 | 1,630,890 | July-to-July estimate |
| July 1, 2023 | 1,644,193 | July-to-July estimate |
| July 1, 2024 | 1,663,929 | July-to-July estimate |
| July 1, 2025 | 1,669,979 | July-to-July estimate |
County population and median home value · different vintages
Each point pairs a county’s PEP July 1, 2025 resident population (persons) with its ACS 2024 5-year median owner-occupied home value (B25077, U.S. dollars). These are different reference periods and different statistical programs. This descriptive comparison does not imply causality or matched vintages. Suppressed, missing or invalid ACS estimates are unavailable, not zero and not plotted. A valid zero remains zero.
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| County | GEOID | PEP July 1, 2025 population (persons) | ACS 2024 5-year median home value (U.S. dollars) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable County | 25001 | 233,539 | $629,000 |
| Berkshire County | 25003 | 128,224 | $305,400 |
| Bristol County | 25005 | 593,640 | $451,200 |
| Dukes County | 25007 | 21,219 | $1,165,800 |
| Essex County | 25009 | 826,653 | $619,100 |
| Franklin County | 25011 | 70,698 | $329,000 |
| Hampden County | 25013 | 464,338 | $298,800 |
| Hampshire County | 25015 | 164,065 | $390,300 |
| Middlesex County | 25017 | 1,669,979 | $727,800 |
| Nantucket County | 25019 | 14,758 | $1,593,800 |
| Norfolk County | 25021 | 739,749 | $683,900 |
| Plymouth County | 25023 | 546,829 | $556,000 |
| Suffolk County | 25025 | 791,891 | $705,800 |
| Worcester County | 25027 | 888,502 | $423,700 |