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Population change between 2002 and 2007.
| Community | 2002 | 2007 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| State | 6,431,788 | 6,449,755 | 0.3% |
| Abington | 15,221 | 16,365 | 7.5% |
| Acton | 20,781 | 20,753 | -0.1% |
| Acushnet | 10,457 | 10,443 | -0.1% |
| Adams | 8,627 | 8,214 | -4.8% |
| Agawam | 28,399 | 28,333 | -0.2% |
| Alford | 393 | 394 | 0.3% |
| Amesbury | 16,679 | 16,429 | -1.5% |
| Amherst | 34,261 | 34,275 | 0.0% |
| Andover | 32,495 | 33,284 | 2.4% |
| Aquinnah | 353 | 354 | 0.3% |
| Arlington | 42,029 | 41,144 | -2.1% |
| Ashburnham | 5,746 | 5,959 | 3.7% |
| Ashby | 2,899 | 2,944 | 1.6% |
| Ashfield | 1,810 | 1,815 | 0.3% |
| Ashland | 15,362 | 15,796 | 2.8% |
| Athol | 11,466 | 11,601 | 1.2% |
| Attleboro | 43,134 | 43,113 | 0.0% |
| Auburn | 16,252 | 16,259 | 0.0% |
| Avon | 4,432 | 4,303 | -2.9% |
| Ayer | 7,290 | 7,369 | 1.1% |
| Barnstable | 48,597 | 46,738 | -3.8% |
| Barre | 5,290 | 5,419 | 2.4% |
| Becket | 1,745 | 1,797 | 3.0% |
| Bedford | 12,551 | 13,146 | 4.7% |
| Belchertown | 13,422 | 13,971 | 4.1% |
| Bellingham | 15,542 | 15,908 | 2.4% |
| Belmont | 23,990 | 23,356 | -2.6% |
| Berkley | 6,140 | 6,433 | 4.8% |
| Berlin | 2,568 | 2,699 | 5.1% |
| Bernardston | 2,178 | 2,225 | 2.2% |
| Beverly | 40,195 | 39,198 | -2.5% |
| Billerica | 39,415 | 42,038 | 6.7% |
| Blackstone | 9,008 | 9,042 | 0.4% |
| Blandford | 1,234 | 1,279 | 3.6% |
| Bolton | 4,271 | 4,481 | 4.9% |
| Boston | 587,224 | 599,351 | 2.1% |
| Bourne | 19,268 | 19,023 | -1.3% |
| Boxborough | 4,928 | 5,097 | 3.4% |
| Boxford | 8,171 | 8,074 | -1.2% |
| Boylston | 4,108 | 4,266 | 3.8% |
| Braintree | 33,814 | 34,422 | 1.8% |
| Brewster | 10,326 | 10,023 | -2.9% |
| Bridgewater | 25,468 | 25,514 | 0.2% |
| Brimfield | 3,486 | 3,695 | 6.0% |
| Brockton | 95,232 | 93,092 | -2.2% |
| Brookfield | 3,104 | 3,030 | -2.4% |
| Brookline | 56,897 | 54,809 | -3.7% |
| Buckland | 1,986 | 1,990 | 0.2% |
| Burlington | 22,846 | 25,034 | 9.6% |
| Cambridge | 102,180 | 101,388 | -0.8% |
| Canton | 21,288 | 21,916 | 3.0% |
| Carlisle | 4,838 | 4,882 | 0.9% |
| Carver | 11,368 | 11,547 | 1.6% |
| Charlemont | 1,386 | 1,367 | -1.4% |
| Charlton | 11,870 | 12,576 | 5.9% |
| Chatham | 6,780 | 6,726 | -0.8% |
| Chelmsford | 33,640 | 34,128 | 1.5% |
| Chelsea | 39,692 | 38,203 | -3.8% |
| Cheshire | 3,373 | 3,299 | -2.2% |
| Chester | 1,327 | 1,296 | -2.3% |
| Chesterfield | 1,228 | 1,273 | 3.7% |
| Chicopee | 54,806 | 53,876 | -1.7% |
| Chilmark | 890 | 963 | 8.2% |
| Clarksburg | 1,676 | 1,631 | -2.7% |
| Clinton | 13,731 | 14,030 | 2.2% |
| Cohasset | 7,290 | 7,182 | -1.5% |
| Colrain | 1,846 | 1,840 | -0.3% |
| Concord | 16,947 | 16,840 | -0.6% |
| Conway | 1,867 | 1,884 | 0.9% |
| Cummington | 978 | 974 | -0.4% |
| Dalton | 6,778 | 6,582 | -2.9% |
| Danvers | 25,181 | 26,736 | 6.2% |
| Dartmouth | 30,878 | 31,241 | 1.2% |
| Dedham | 23,296 | 24,132 | 3.6% |
| Deerfield | 4,777 | 4,731 | -1.0% |
| Dennis | 16,135 | 15,473 | -4.1% |
| Dighton | 6,449 | 6,748 | 4.6% |
| Douglas | 7,510 | 7,924 | 5.5% |
| Dover | 5,653 | 5,627 | -0.5% |
| Dracut | 28,756 | 29,498 | 2.6% |
| Dudley | 10,507 | 10,780 | 2.6% |
| Dunstable | 2,990 | 3,290 | 10.0% |
| Duxbury | 14,524 | 14,444 | -0.6% |
| East Bridgewater | 13,477 | 13,879 | 3.0% |
| East Brookfield | 2,122 | 2,069 | -2.5% |
| East Longmeadow | 14,509 | 15,222 | 4.9% |
| Eastham | 5,603 | 5,445 | -2.8% |
| Easthampton | 16,070 | 16,064 | 0.0% |
| Easton | 22,698 | 22,969 | 1.2% |
| Edgartown | 3,869 | 3,920 | 1.3% |
| Egremont | 1,339 | 1,350 | 0.8% |
| Erving | 1,486 | 1,537 | 3.4% |
| Essex | 3,326 | 3,323 | -0.1% |
| Everett | 37,713 | 37,269 | -1.2% |
| Fairhaven | 16,359 | 16,124 | -1.4% |
| Fall River | 92,738 | 90,905 | -2.0% |
| Falmouth | 33,462 | 33,247 | -0.6% |
| Fitchburg | 39,733 | 39,835 | 0.3% |
| Florida | 666 | 678 | 1.8% |
| Foxborough | 16,352 | 16,298 | -0.3% |
| Framingham | 66,440 | 64,786 | -2.5% |
| Franklin | 29,916 | 31,381 | 4.9% |
| Freetown | 8,731 | 8,935 | 2.3% |
| Gardner | 20,981 | 20,613 | -1.8% |
| Georgetown | 7,704 | 8,147 | 5.8% |
| Gill | 1,369 | 1,379 | 0.7% |
| Gloucester | 30,670 | 30,308 | -1.2% |
| Goshen | 942 | 956 | 1.5% |
| Gosnold | 87 | 84 | -3.4% |
| Grafton | 15,740 | 17,525 | 11.3% |
| Granby | 6,215 | 6,285 | 1.1% |
| Granville | 1,574 | 1,676 | 6.5% |
| Great Barrington | 7,469 | 7,372 | -1.3% |
| Greenfield | 18,043 | 17,706 | -1.9% |
| Groton | 10,002 | 10,641 | 6.4% |
| Groveland | 6,213 | 6,923 | 11.4% |
| Hadley | 4,816 | 4,787 | -0.6% |
| Halifax | 7,687 | 7,700 | 0.2% |
| Hamilton | 8,413 | 8,188 | -2.7% |
| Hampden | 5,254 | 5,305 | 1.0% |
| Hancock | 772 | 1,082 | 40.2% |
| Hanover | 13,564 | 13,966 | 3.0% |
| Hanson | 9,802 | 9,956 | 1.6% |
| Hardwick | 2,668 | 2,650 | -0.7% |
| Harvard | 6,090 | 6,001 | -1.5% |
| Harwich | 12,753 | 12,387 | -2.9% |
| Hatfield | 3,300 | 3,258 | -1.3% |
| Haverhill | 59,718 | 59,902 | 0.3% |
| Hawley | 339 | 336 | -0.9% |
| Heath | 805 | 797 | -1.0% |
| Hingham | 20,171 | 22,394 | 11.0% |
| Hinsdale | 1,843 | 1,937 | 5.1% |
| Holbrook | 10,834 | 10,663 | -1.6% |
| Holden | 16,128 | 16,581 | 2.8% |
| Holland | 2,446 | 2,532 | 3.5% |
| Holliston | 13,952 | 13,941 | -0.1% |
| Holyoke | 39,976 | 39,737 | -0.6% |
| Hopedale | 6,104 | 6,165 | 1.0% |
| Hopkinton | 13,911 | 14,307 | 2.8% |
| Hubbardston | 4,144 | 4,461 | 7.6% |
| Hudson | 18,288 | 19,580 | 7.1% |
| Hull | 11,334 | 11,067 | -2.4% |
| Huntington | 2,181 | 2,193 | 0.6% |
| Ipswich | 13,257 | 13,245 | -0.1% |
| Kingston | 12,122 | 12,339 | 1.8% |
| Lakeville | 10,344 | 10,587 | 2.3% |
| Lancaster | 6,534 | 7,047 | 7.9% |
| Lanesborough | 2,969 | 2,891 | -2.6% |
| Lawrence | 72,070 | 70,066 | -2.8% |
| Lee | 5,901 | 5,803 | -1.7% |
| Leicester | 10,763 | 10,982 | 2.0% |
| Lenox | 5,153 | 5,105 | -0.9% |
| Leominster | 41,876 | 41,128 | -1.8% |
| Leverett | 1,729 | 1,746 | 1.0% |
| Lexington | 30,565 | 30,332 | -0.8% |
| Leyden | 794 | 802 | 1.0% |
| Lincoln | 8,089 | 7,994 | -1.2% |
| Littleton | 8,492 | 8,714 | 2.6% |
| Longmeadow | 15,657 | 15,315 | -2.2% |
| Lowell | 104,710 | 103,512 | -1.1% |
| Ludlow | 21,680 | 22,062 | 1.8% |
| Lunenburg | 9,772 | 9,948 | 1.8% |
| Lynn | 89,591 | 87,122 | -2.8% |
| Lynnfield | 11,632 | 11,382 | -2.1% |
| Malden | 56,044 | 55,712 | -0.6% |
| Manchester-by-the-Sea | 5,280 | 5,265 | -0.3% |
| Mansfield | 22,856 | 22,993 | 0.6% |
| Marblehead | 20,463 | 20,039 | -2.1% |
| Marion | 5,278 | 5,217 | -1.2% |
| Marlborough | 38,038 | 38,065 | 0.1% |
| Marshfield | 24,775 | 24,576 | -0.8% |
| Mashpee | 13,933 | 14,261 | 2.4% |
| Mattapoisett | 6,382 | 6,447 | 1.0% |
| Maynard | 10,424 | 10,177 | -2.4% |
| Medfield | 12,412 | 12,266 | -1.2% |
| Medford | 55,462 | 55,565 | 0.2% |
| Medway | 12,864 | 12,749 | -0.9% |
| Melrose | 26,909 | 26,782 | -0.5% |
| Mendon | 5,601 | 5,767 | 3.0% |
| Merrimac | 6,277 | 6,425 | 2.4% |
| Methuen | 44,542 | 43,979 | -1.3% |
| Middleborough | 20,677 | 21,245 | 2.7% |
| Middlefield | 543 | 551 | 1.5% |
| Middleton | 8,764 | 9,347 | 6.7% |
| Milford | 27,231 | 27,263 | 0.1% |
| Millbury | 13,161 | 13,470 | 2.3% |
| Millis | 7,991 | 7,927 | -0.8% |
| Millville | 2,859 | 2,834 | -0.9% |
| Milton | 25,939 | 25,691 | -1.0% |
| Monroe | 97 | 96 | -1.0% |
| Monson | 8,534 | 8,788 | 3.0% |
| Montague | 8,460 | 8,334 | -1.5% |
| Monterey | 943 | 960 | 1.8% |
| Montgomery | 707 | 754 | 6.6% |
| Mount Washington | 130 | 138 | 6.2% |
| Nahant | 3,637 | 3,519 | -3.2% |
| Nantucket | 9,881 | 10,531 | 6.6% |
| Natick | 32,289 | 31,975 | -1.0% |
| Needham | 28,668 | 28,263 | -1.4% |
| New Ashford | 247 | 248 | 0.4% |
| New Bedford | 94,130 | 91,849 | -2.4% |
| New Braintree | 1,002 | 1,112 | 11.0% |
| New Marlborough | 1,495 | 1,521 | 1.7% |
| New Salem | 958 | 990 | 3.3% |
| Newbury | 6,849 | 6,926 | 1.1% |
| Newburyport | 17,508 | 17,144 | -2.1% |
| Newton | 83,643 | 83,271 | -0.4% |
| Norfolk | 10,378 | 10,646 | 2.6% |
| North Adams | 14,399 | 13,617 | -5.4% |
| North Andover | 27,078 | 27,637 | 2.1% |
| North Attleborough | 27,809 | 27,907 | 0.4% |
| North Brookfield | 4,787 | 4,819 | 0.7% |
| North Reading | 13,956 | 14,021 | 0.5% |
| Northampton | 28,979 | 28,411 | -2.0% |
| Northborough | 14,239 | 14,611 | 2.6% |
| Northbridge | 13,533 | 14,375 | 6.2% |
| Northfield | 3,060 | 2,985 | -2.5% |
| Norton | 18,561 | 19,222 | 3.6% |
| Norwell | 10,136 | 10,271 | 1.3% |
| Norwood | 28,756 | 28,172 | -2.0% |
| Oak Bluffs | 3,804 | 3,731 | -1.9% |
| Oakham | 1,765 | 1,906 | 8.0% |
| Orange | 7,542 | 7,796 | 3.4% |
| Orleans | 6,443 | 6,315 | -2.0% |
| Otis | 1,365 | 1,394 | 2.1% |
| Oxford | 13,693 | 13,641 | -0.4% |
| Palmer | 12,703 | 12,849 | 1.1% |
| Paxton | 4,483 | 4,530 | 1.0% |
| Peabody | 49,542 | 51,441 | 3.8% |
| Pelham | 1,400 | 1,404 | 0.3% |
| Pembroke | 17,498 | 18,595 | 6.3% |
| Pepperell | 11,386 | 11,409 | 0.2% |
| Peru | 809 | 838 | 3.6% |
| Petersham | 1,210 | 1,283 | 6.0% |
| Phillipston | 1,641 | 1,787 | 8.9% |
| Pittsfield | 44,925 | 42,931 | -4.4% |
| Plainfield | 599 | 600 | 0.2% |
| Plainville | 7,879 | 8,311 | 5.5% |
| Plymouth | 53,568 | 55,188 | 3.0% |
| Plympton | 2,698 | 2,772 | 2.7% |
| Princeton | 3,459 | 3,494 | 1.0% |
| Provincetown | 3,475 | 3,390 | -2.4% |
| Quincy | 88,970 | 91,622 | 3.0% |
| Randolph | 30,939 | 30,168 | -2.5% |
| Raynham | 12,254 | 13,641 | 11.3% |
| Reading | 23,641 | 23,129 | -2.2% |
| Rehoboth | 10,727 | 11,484 | 7.1% |
| Revere | 54,483 | 55,341 | 1.6% |
| Richmond | 1,609 | 1,591 | -1.1% |
| Rochester | 4,930 | 5,218 | 5.8% |
| Rockland | 17,953 | 17,780 | -1.0% |
| Rockport | 7,817 | 7,633 | -2.4% |
| Rowe | 350 | 347 | -0.9% |
| Rowley | 5,573 | 5,839 | 4.8% |
| Royalston | 1,307 | 1,380 | 5.6% |
| Russell | 1,679 | 1,730 | 3.0% |
| Rutland | 6,808 | 7,846 | 15.2% |
| Salem | 42,141 | 40,922 | -2.9% |
| Salisbury | 7,963 | 8,521 | 7.0% |
| Sandisfield | 822 | 837 | 1.8% |
| Sandwich | 20,682 | 20,255 | -2.1% |
| Saugus | 26,375 | 27,192 | 3.1% |
| Savoy | 711 | 720 | 1.3% |
| Scituate | 18,120 | 17,881 | -1.3% |
| Seekonk | 13,665 | 13,593 | -0.5% |
| Sharon | 17,487 | 17,033 | -2.6% |
| Sheffield | 3,331 | 3,334 | 0.1% |
| Shelburne | 2,070 | 2,036 | -1.6% |
| Sherborn | 4,211 | 4,217 | 0.1% |
| Shirley | 7,544 | 7,726 | 2.4% |
| Shrewsbury | 32,747 | 33,489 | 2.3% |
| Shutesbury | 1,830 | 1,834 | 0.2% |
| Somerset | 18,643 | 18,268 | -2.0% |
| Somerville | 77,009 | 74,405 | -3.4% |
| South Hadley | 17,132 | 16,952 | -1.1% |
| Southampton | 5,558 | 5,962 | 7.3% |
| Southborough | 9,206 | 9,484 | 3.0% |
| Southbridge | 17,395 | 16,926 | -2.7% |
| Southwick | 9,132 | 9,431 | 3.3% |
| Spencer | 11,937 | 12,006 | 0.6% |
| Springfield | 151,964 | 149,938 | -1.3% |
| Sterling | 7,569 | 7,874 | 4.0% |
| Stockbridge | 2,255 | 2,232 | -1.0% |
| Stoneham | 22,104 | 21,508 | -2.7% |
| Stoughton | 27,137 | 26,951 | -0.7% |
| Stow | 6,071 | 6,327 | 4.2% |
| Sturbridge | 8,239 | 9,102 | 10.5% |
| Sudbury | 17,212 | 17,159 | -0.3% |
| Sunderland | 3,798 | 3,721 | -2.0% |
| Sutton | 8,710 | 9,015 | 3.5% |
| Swampscott | 14,457 | 13,994 | -3.2% |
| Swansea | 16,175 | 16,237 | 0.4% |
| Taunton | 56,645 | 55,783 | -1.5% |
| Templeton | 7,140 | 7,783 | 9.0% |
| Tewksbury | 29,266 | 29,607 | 1.2% |
| Tisbury | 3,824 | 3,805 | -0.5% |
| Tolland | 428 | 451 | 5.4% |
| Topsfield | 6,222 | 6,067 | -2.5% |
| Townsend | 9,300 | 9,374 | 0.8% |
| Truro | 2,149 | 2,134 | -0.7% |
| Tyngsborough | 11,309 | 11,860 | 4.9% |
| Tyringham | 361 | 343 | -5.0% |
| Upton | 6,082 | 6,526 | 7.3% |
| Uxbridge | 11,777 | 12,634 | 7.3% |
| Wakefield | 24,756 | 24,706 | -0.2% |
| Wales | 1,766 | 1,844 | 4.4% |
| Walpole | 23,132 | 23,086 | -0.2% |
| Waltham | 58,951 | 59,758 | 1.4% |
| Ware | 9,747 | 9,933 | 1.9% |
| Wareham | 20,878 | 21,154 | 1.3% |
| Warren | 4,857 | 5,071 | 4.4% |
| Warwick | 756 | 750 | -0.8% |
| Washington | 540 | 548 | 1.5% |
| Watertown | 32,782 | 32,521 | -0.8% |
| Wayland | 13,201 | 13,017 | -1.4% |
| Webster | 16,734 | 16,705 | -0.2% |
| Wellesley | 27,030 | 26,985 | -0.2% |
| Wellfleet | 2,815 | 2,748 | -2.4% |
| Wendell | 1,009 | 1,003 | -0.6% |
| Wenham | 4,665 | 4,615 | -1.1% |
| West Boylston | 7,559 | 7,779 | 2.9% |
| West Bridgewater | 6,807 | 6,679 | -1.9% |
| West Brookfield | 3,881 | 3,826 | -1.4% |
| West Newbury | 4,242 | 4,269 | 0.6% |
| West Springfield | 28,003 | 27,603 | -1.4% |
| West Stockbridge | 1,437 | 1,447 | 0.7% |
| West Tisbury | 2,586 | 2,628 | 1.6% |
| Westborough | 18,540 | 18,459 | -0.4% |
| Westfield | 40,311 | 40,160 | -0.4% |
| Westford | 21,212 | 21,790 | 2.7% |
| Westhampton | 1,509 | 1,586 | 5.1% |
| Westminster | 7,150 | 7,388 | 3.3% |
| Weston | 11,624 | 11,698 | 0.6% |
| Westport | 14,569 | 15,136 | 3.9% |
| Westwood | 14,133 | 14,010 | -0.9% |
| Weymouth | 54,575 | 53,272 | -2.4% |
| Whately | 1,576 | 1,555 | -1.3% |
| Whitman | 14,310 | 14,385 | 0.5% |
| Wilbraham | 13,730 | 14,032 | 2.2% |
| Williamsburg | 2,428 | 2,440 | 0.5% |
| Williamstown | 8,313 | 8,108 | -2.5% |
| Wilmington | 21,578 | 21,679 | 0.5% |
| Winchendon | 9,914 | 10,130 | 2.2% |
| Winchester | 21,042 | 21,137 | 0.5% |
| Windsor | 860 | 856 | -0.5% |
| Winthrop | 20,906 | 20,154 | -3.6% |
| Woburn | 37,891 | 37,042 | -2.2% |
| Worcester | 175,091 | 173,966 | -0.6% |
| Worthington | 1,291 | 1,272 | -1.5% |
| Wrentham | 10,932 | 11,116 | 1.7% |
| Yarmouth | 25,106 | 24,010 | -4.4% |
SOURCE: US Census
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