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Population Projections

Currently, the Central Massachusetts Region is home to 572,655 people, 8.44% of the Massachusetts population with that number expected to reach 641,260 by the year 2040 it is important to know where those people will live and what types of services they may need.The University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute was able to use use the regional and town population projections to calculate age cohort estimates for each of the landmark years of Mobility2040.  Below are links to interactive charts that show the total populations projected for the years 2020, 2030 and 2040 and age cohort estimates for those years and excel sheets containing the data.

Projection Dashboards

Click on the links below to view the interactive CMRPC Projections dashboards.

 

Town Level Projections Data

Click on the links below to view town level projections tables.

 Auburn

 Barre Berlin Blackstone Boylston Brookfield Charlton Douglas
Dudley East Brookfield Grafton Hardwick Holden Hopedale Leicester Mendon
Millbury Millville New Braintree North Brookfield Northborough Northbridge Oakham Oxford
Paxton Princeton Rutland Shrewsbury Southbridge Spencer Sturbridge Sutton
Upton Uxbridge  Warren  Webster  West Boylston  West Brookfield  Westborough

 Worcester

 

Methodology

Click on the link below to view the population projections methodology.

Population Projections