Boston Metropolitan Area:
Population from 1790
|
Year |
City of Boston |
Outside Boston |
Metropolitan Area |
Share in Boston |
Boston Share of Growth |
|
2003 |
581,616 |
3,450,513 |
4,032,129 |
14.4% |
-24.8% |
|
2000 |
589,141 |
3,412,611 |
4,001,752 |
14.7% |
6.8% |
|
1990 |
574,283 |
3,209,534 |
3,783,817 |
15.2% |
9.4% |
|
1980 |
562,944 |
3,099,888 |
3,662,832 |
15.4% |
Metro Loss |
|
1970 |
641,071 |
3,067,639 |
3,708,710 |
17.3% |
-16.0% |
|
1960 |
697,197 |
2,660,410 |
3,357,607 |
20.8% |
-35.7% |
|
1950 |
801,444 |
2,263,900 |
3,065,344 |
26.1% |
12.7% |
|
1940 |
770,816 |
2,054,139 |
2,824,955 |
27.3% |
-20.5% |
|
1930 |
781,188 |
1,993,049 |
2,774,237 |
28.2% |
11.0% |
|
1920 |
748,060 |
1,724,019 |
2,472,079 |
30.3% |
25.6% |
|
1910 |
670,585 |
1,499,038 |
2,169,623 |
30.9% |
29.7% |
|
1900 |
560,862 |
1,238,805 |
1,799,667 |
31.2% |
30.2% |
|
1890 |
448,477 |
979,115 |
1,427,592 |
31.4% |
27.9% |
|
1880 |
362,839 |
757,978 |
1,120,817 |
32.4% |
51.0% |
|
1870 |
250,526 |
650,280 |
900,806 |
27.8% |
48.0% |
|
1860 |
177,840 |
571,543 |
749,383 |
23.7% |
23.1% |
|
1850 |
136,881 |
434,908 |
571,789 |
23.9% |
25.0% |
|
1840 |
93,383 |
304,501 |
397,884 |
23.5% |
35.6% |
|
1830 |
61,392 |
246,607 |
307,999 |
19.9% |
33.9% |
|
1820 |
43,298 |
211,376 |
254,674 |
17.0% |
32.6% |
|
1810 |
33,787 |
191,685 |
225,472 |
15.0% |
27.6% |
|
1800 |
24,937 |
168,491 |
193,428 |
12.9% |
36.0% |
|
1790 |
18,320 |
156,740 |
175,060 |
10.5% |
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County based metropolitan area (1960 definition) - Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk Counties |
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Pre 1900 data from "Residence and Social Structure: Boston in the Antebellum Period," by Leo F. Schnore and Peter R. Knights in Nineteenth-
Century Cities; Essays in the New Urban History, Edited by Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969 |
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