Massachusetts
Massachusetts: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 7,100,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Massachusetts at a glance
Rolled up from the 39 regions inside Massachusetts on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population6,992,395
census
Places inside38
20 with a full /local page
Businesses on file59,246
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered358
in the company directory
Who represents them3
places with a /politics page
Property & employers3 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads Massachusetts, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 7,154,084 persons (Census Bureau Vintage 2025 resident population estimate, July 1) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 813,590.5 USD millions, current dollars, annual (BEA) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 4.3 percent, seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 118,500 USD, current dollars (Census Bureau CPS ASEC, Income in the United States) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 62.4 percent (Census Bureau CPS/HVS) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 77,400 USD total household debt balance per capita (consumers 18+ with an Equifax credit file; NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel) (2025-Q4) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) ↗ | 765,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Worcester, MA-CT (MSA) ↗ | 537,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Springfield, MA (MSA) ↗ | 369,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Barnstable Town, MA (CBSA) — Cape Cod ↗ | 895,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Pittsfield, MA (CBSA) ↗ | 525,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| English ↗ | 78.93% | first language spoken at home, residents 5+ (2010 figures as stated by Wikipedia; current ACS not read) | 2010 |
| Any language other than English ↗ | 21.07% | first language spoken at home other than English, residents 5+ | 2010 |
| Spanish ↗ | 7.5% | first language spoken at home, residents 5+ | 2010 |
| Portuguese ↗ | 2.97% | first language spoken at home, residents 5+ | 2010 |
| Chinese (incl. Cantonese and Mandarin) ↗ | 1.59% | first language spoken at home, residents 5+ | 2010 |
| French ↗ | 1.11% | first language spoken at home, residents 5+ | 2010 |
| French Creole ↗ | 0.89% | first language spoken at home, residents 5+ | 2010 |
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Largest companies in Massachusetts
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| TJX Companies (Framingham) ↗ | revenue | 54.22 USD billions | 2024 |
| Liberty Mutual (Boston) ↗ | revenue | 48.2 USD billions | 2021 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham) ↗ | revenue | 44.56 USD billions | 2025 |
| GE Vernova (Cambridge) ↗ | revenue | 38.07 USD billions | 2025 |
| BJ's Wholesale Club (Marlborough) ↗ | revenue | 20.5 USD billions | 2025 |
| Boston Scientific (Marlborough) ↗ | revenue | 20.1 USD billions | 2025 |
| State Street Corporation (Boston) ↗ | revenue | 13.9 USD billions | 2025 |
| Eversource Energy (Springfield/Boston; co-HQ Hartford CT) ↗ | revenue | 13.5 USD billions | 2025 |
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Boston) ↗ | revenue | 12 USD billions | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-11Gov. Maura Healey (D) won a second term on Nov 3, 2026 with 62.2% (1,515,963 votes) to Republican Mike Minogue's 34.4%; Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll was her running mate. Minogue's $6.1M spend in September 2026 made it the most expensive gubernatorial race in Massachusetts history. ↗
- 2026-09Massachusetts GDP ran at a $853.4B seasonally adjusted annual rate in Q2 2026, up from $837.4B in Q1 2026 (current dollars, BEA). ↗
- 2026-02Total household debt per capita in Massachusetts (NY Fed/Equifax) reached $77,400 at Q4 2025, up from $41,430 at Q4 2003 and $76,400 at Q4 2024. ↗
- 2026-10Cape Cod (Barnstable Town CBSA) had the state's highest metro median listing price in October 2026 at $895,000, above Greater Boston's $765,000; Springfield's was $369,900. ↗
- 2026-03The Massachusetts homeownership rate was 62.4% in 2025, down from 62.9% in 2024. ↗
- 2026-09Median household income was $118,500 in 2025 (Census CPS ASEC), up from $112,300 in 2024. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$101,341
Median rent$1,687/mo
Immigrants17.7%
Renters37.4%
Aged 65+17.5%
Unemployment5.1%
Low income10%
Speak a language other than English23.5%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish635,368 · 9.1%
- Other Indo-European languages392,255 · 5.6%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)142,640 · 2%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun129,887 · 1.9%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages82,096 · 1.2%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages65,709 · 0.9%
- Other and unspecified languages65,584 · 0.9%
- Vietnamese43,801 · 0.6%
- Arabic40,726 · 0.6%
- German or other West Germanic languages20,440 · 0.3%
- Korean17,974 · 0.3%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)8,092 · 0.1%
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Largest employers headquartered in Massachusetts
Worldwide head offices from the /employers research, ranked by people employed as each company reports it.
- 1.Trojan Technologies London, ON · Manufacturing — UV water treatment equipment ↗450 at this site, 2026
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Largest places in Massachusetts
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Boston, Massachusetts full675,647
- 2.Worcester, Massachusetts full206,518
- 3.Springfield, Massachusetts full155,929
- 4.Lowell, Massachusetts full115,554
- 5.Brockton, MA105,643
- 6.New Bedford, Massachusetts full101,079
- 7.Fall River, Massachusetts full94,000
- 8.Lawrence, Massachusetts full89,143
- 9.Haverhill, MA full67,787
- 10.Woburn, MA40,876
- 11.Amherst, Massachusetts full39,263
- 12.Gloucester, Massachusetts full29,729
- 13.Northampton, Massachusetts full28,640
- 14.Burlington, Massachusetts26,377
- 15.Marblehead, MA full20,441
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Inside Massachusetts
35 regions have Massachusetts as their parent.
- Amherst, Massachusetts
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Brockton, MA
- Burlington, Massachusetts
- Cambridge, MA (Harvard)
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts region
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Fall River, Massachusetts
- Fallmouth, Mass
- Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Haverhill, MA
- Hyannis-Barnstable, MA
- Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Lexington, Massachussets
- Lowell, Massachusetts
- Marblehead, MA
- Martha's Vineyard
- Mashpee, Sandwich, MA
- Nantucket Island
- Needham, Massachussetts
- New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Newburyport, MA
- North Adams, MA
- Northampton, Massachusetts
- Pittsfield, MA
- Plymouth, Massachussets
- Rockport, MA
- Scituate, MA
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Waltham,MA
- Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Winchester, Massachusetts
- Woburn, MA
- Woods Hole, MA town
- Worcester, Massachusetts
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Companies based in Massachusetts
358 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Massachusetts. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Massachusetts are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.