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| People QuickFacts | Massachusetts | USA |
Population, 2003 estimate |
6,433,422 | 290,809,777 |
| Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 |
1.3% | 3.3% |
| Population, 2000 | 6,349,097 | 281,421,906 |
| Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000 | 5.5% | 13.1% |
| Persons under 5 years old, percent, 2000 | 6.3% | 6.8% |
| Persons under 18 years old, percent, 2000 | 23.6% | 25.7% |
| Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000 | 13.5% | 12.4% |
| Female persons, percent, 2000 | 51.8% | 50.9% |
| Mortgage, Real Estate Demographics | Massachusetts | USA |
Housing units, 2002 |
2,649,029 | 119,302,132 |
| Homeownership rate, 2000 |
61.7% | 66.2% |
| Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2000 | 42.7% | 26.4% |
| Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 | $185,700 | $119,600 |
| Households, 2000 | 2,443,580 | 105,480,101 |
| Persons per household, 2000 | 2.51 | 2.59 |
| Median household income, 1999 | $50,502 | $41,994 |
| Per capita money income, 1999 | $25,952 | $21,587 |
| Persons below poverty, percent, 1999 | 9.3% | 12.4% |
Massachusetts (officially, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts) is a state in the New England region of the United States of America. Its nickame is the Bay State. Other nicknames are the Old Colony State, and less commonly the Puritan state and the Baked Bean state. On December 18, 1990, the Legislature decided that the people of the Commonwealth would be designated as Bay Staters.
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Economy
Massachusetts total gross state product for 1999 was $262 billion, placing it 11th in the nation. As of 2002, its Per Capita Personal Income was $39,244 or third in the nation. [2] (http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/regional/statelocal.htm)
Its agricultural outputs are seafood, nursery stock, dairy products, cranberries, and vegetables. Its industrial outputs are machinery, electric equipment, scientific instruments, printing, and publishing. Massachusetts produces most of the cranberries sold in the U.S. Other sectors vital to the Massachusetts economy include higher education, health care, financial services and tourism.
Massachusetts municipalities are subject to a budgetary law known as "Proposition 2½", by which they may not increase expenditures by more than 2½% per annum without the approval of the voters in a plebiscite. Nevertheless, Taxachusetts is one of the most heavily taxed states.
BostonThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 50 cities and 301 towns, grouped into 14 counties. Massachusetts cities and towns of historical or cultural importance include
Important cities and towns
Amherst | Barnstable | Boston | Cambridge | Concord | Fall River | Framingham | Lawrence | Lexington | Lowell | Lynn | New Bedford | Newton | Northampton | Pittsfield | Plymouth | Provincetown | Salem | Springfield | Taunton
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