Demographics

2006 Updates to the Central Massachusetts Regional Demographics
March 2006

CMRPC provides periodic updates to projections of population, households and employment for Central Massachusetts at the regional and municipal levels. State, regional, and local officials may use these projections for a variety of planning purposes so it is important that the results be as accurate as possible and that the rationale behind them be well understood. For the 2007 update to the Central Massachusetts Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), the long-range transportation plan for the region, new updates to the regional demographic projections have been made. The 2000 US Decennial Census and data from the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance (DUA, formerly DET) provide the best estimates of current and historic population and employment. The projections are based on forecasts by the Executive Office of Transportation/Office of Transportation Planning (EOT/OTP) and adjusted based on past trends, comments from the 40 municipalities in the Region and consultation with EOT/OTP.

• Press Release (156kb)
• Demographics Presentation (MS PowerPoint) (1.35MB)
• Questions and Answers (192kb)
• Metadata/Rationale for Projections (20kb)

Statistics

Regional Data Bank

The CMRPC is a depository for both current and past statistical data for the Region and each of its 40 member municipalities.  Visit the Regional Data Bank in our library for examples of the type of data available, as well as profiles for each municipality summarizing demographic, social, economic and housing characteristics from the 2000 Census.