Framingham's population was up 5.9%, adding 4,044 residents, while Milford's population rose 2,380, an 8.5% change. Many of the suburban communities grow as well," Galvin, the state's liaison to the Census, said. Across the country, less than half (47 percent) of the nation's 3,143 counties gained population over the last decade. Moran told the News Service on Thursday that the committee's third-party vendor is working now to put the latest Census data into a format that meets the committee's parameters. Moran said the committee has to use official Census data and "given the Census' credibility in the last year and a half," he is not considering the data released Thursday to be the official numbers.

Source: MetroXpress August 13, 2021 13:18 UTC