Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced today she will formally contest the Census Bureau's Boston head count of 675,647, saying it leaves out significant numbers of students, inmates and foreign-born residents. Read more.
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By JohnAKeith - 4/8/11 - 7:02 pm
State Representative Byron Rushing says he believes that "lingering racism" in Boston is to blame for the loss of Black/African American residents in the city between 2000 and 2010.
Rushing, who represents the 9th Suffolk District, which includes parts of the South End, Roxbury, and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston as well as part of the city of Cambridge, expressed his opinion in an article appearing in this week's Boston Courant (not available online).
The 2010 US Census shows a drop of 1.6% in Black/African American population in Boston (140,305 to 138,073).
By adamg - 3/31/11 - 9:12 pm
E-mail the Boston Redevelopment Authority with a list of streets bordering a particular part of Boston and they promise to write back with detailed census data for that area.
By adamg - 3/25/11 - 11:05 am
Although the 2010 federal census shows Boston went above 600,000 residents for the first time since 1970, neighborhood-level maps show large parts of Dorchester, Mattapan and Roslindale lost population over the past 10 years. See for yourself on this interactive New York Times map.
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