News & Updates for the Population Estimates Program

• Feb 2024
  Urban Land Institute: We Are Not Who We Used To be
• Jan 2024
  Boston Globe: The population of Mass. grew last year for the first time since 2020
• May 2023
  Multiple outlets: Despite mixed results nationwide, Boston successfully challenges 2020 Census count
• May 2023
  Institute a key player in Boston’s challenge to the 2020 Census
• Sep 2022
  Susan Strate continues demographic leadership at the national level
• Sep 2022
  Boston Globe: Citing an undercount of college students and immigrants, Boston mayor challenges 2020 Census tally
• Jun 2022
  BusinessWest Magazine: UMass Donahue Institute Marks 51 Years Of “Pushing Corners”
• Jan 2021
  U.S. Census Undercounts: Risks, Consequences and Solutions
• Sep 2020
  iHeartRadio Boston outlets: Why is the census is important? “Money, Data and Power”
• Aug 2020
  Door-to-Door Visits Begin Nationwide for 2020 Census
• Jul 2020
  Susan Strate re-elected to census steering committee
• Apr 2020
  Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Worcester and Mass. residents slow to be counted for Census 2020
• Mar 2020
  COVID-19: A Message to Our Clients, Partners, Colleagues and Friends (UPDATED)
• Jan 2020
  New York Times: Why Your State Is Growing or Stalling or Shrinking
• Nov 2019
  New York Times, WashPo, Chicago Trib.: “After Tax Law, Florida Sees Movers but Not From New York”
• Oct 2019
  AP, ABC, CBS, PBS, Wash. Post: Census Bureau seeks state data on citizens
• Mar 2019
  The Massachusetts Census Planner - a friendly web app
• Mar 2019
  MassLive op-ed: How family caregiving is impacting employers and employees
• Feb 2019
  Secretary of the Commonwealth names Susan Strate to statewide 2020 census group
• Oct 2018
  Wall Street Journal: How Many People Live on Nantucket? Depends Whom You Ask
• Sep 2018
  Cape Cod Chronicle: Sustainability, By The Numbers
• Aug 2018
  Vineyard Gazette: Hospice care demand expected to grow
• Jun 2018
  WGBH: VT population growth is below national average
• Jun 2018
  Susan Strate re-elected to U.S. census steering committee
• Mar 2018
  Boston Globe: Giving senior councils an energy boost
• Feb 2018
  Boston Globe: Booming senior population leads center to re-think services
• Nov 2017
  Woburn Daily Times: Population estimates used to pass legislation to expand Winchester middle school
• Oct 2017
  Census preparation “road show” travels the state to educate local governments
• Sep 2017
  The Patriot Ledger: Hanover (MA) planning for future of housing
• May 2017
  U.S. Census Bureau releases new sub-county population estimates for July 1, 2016
• Mar 2017
  Newburyport News: Bay State’s population growth outpaces Northeast
• Mar 2017
  Preparation begins for “Census 2020”
• Mar 2017
  County-level population estimates for 2010 through July 1, 2016 for Mass. and the U.S.
• Mar 2017
  MassLive: Hampden County is Massachusetts’ 6th-fastest growing county since 2000
• Mar 2017
  Boston Globe: Could anti-immigrant rhetoric affect the 2020 Census?
• Feb 2017
  Vineyard Gazette: A Place For Us: Growing Older, Better (editorial)
• Dec 2016
  Medford Public Library eyes bigger building, cites future population growth
• Sep 2016
  Vineyard Gazette: Op-ed discusses population growth, cites Institute
• Aug 2016
  iBerkshires.com: Town of Adams adopts “age friendly” policy, supported by population estimates data
• Jul 2016
  Huffington Post: Aging population increases important on “age-friendly” communities
• Jun 2016
  New population estimates for Mass released, interactive map available
• Mar 2016
  U.S. Census releases 2015 County-level Population Estimates
• Dec 2015
  Multiple outlets: Growing Massachusetts population in contrast with much of Northeast
• Dec 2015
  MassLive: Western Massachusetts growing slowly if at all
• Oct 2015
  Wicked Local Acton/Boxborough: Growing senior community may demand new services
• Oct 2015
  Census training held for organizations covering economic and emergency management data
• Aug 2015
  Boston Globe: Why are so many young professionals fleeing the Cape?
• Jun 2015
  WWLP: Business leader meet to discuss “state of the region”
• May 2015
  Nashoba Valley Voice: Aging population, changing services
• Apr 2015
  Gloucester Times: State’s population growth not felt locally
• Apr 2015
  Recent rapid population growth in Massachusetts to continue in the near term
• Dec 2013
  Multiple outlets: State population growth is forecast to slow
• Dec 2013
  Aging population expected to slow growth in Massachusetts over long term
• Jun 2013
  Western Massachusetts Population Getting More Diverse
• Jan 2013
  Providence Journal: RI experiences historical decline in population
• Jan 2013
  NEPR: MA Population On Stronger Growth Track After Stagnant Years
• Jul 2012
  UMDI’s Susan Strate elected to census steering committee
• May 2012
  The Republican: “In Western Massachusetts, majority-minority breakdown reflects latest U.S. numbers”
• Dec 2010
  MetroWest Daily News: Census estimates 17 percent in area are foreign-born
• Dec 2010
  Boston.com: A melting pot stretches out to the suburbs
• Jun 2010
  MassLive: Springfield shows small population growth in new census estimates
• Dec 2009
  MetroWest Daily News: Massachusetts sees population increase
• Dec 2009
  Mass. Municipal Assoc.: Six communities win census challenge
• Dec 2009
  MassLive
• Nov 2009
  Springfield population takes big jump following city appeal and U.S. Census Bureau re-calculation
• Jan 2009
  UMass Donahue Institute work helps Massachusetts communities successfully challenge census total
• Dec 2008
  Revision puts population estimate for Hub over 600,000
• Dec 2008
  Census challenge adds to count
• Jul 2008
  Donahue Institute population estimates program report on the Pioneer Valley
• Apr 2007
  Massachusetts estimated to have grown at over three times the rate of the U.S. in the first quarter
• Mar 2007
  Population losses felt in Western Mass
• Dec 2005
  Census estimate a concern for state