Massachusetts · United States
Boston population
653,833people · latest figure
Boston has a population of 653,833, making it the 24th largest place we list in United States. It is in Massachusetts.
Boston holds 0.19% of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 13 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 571,281, a rise of 14%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Boston is in Massachusetts, which has 477 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Nashville | Tennessee | 689,447 |
| Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | 681,054 |
| El Paso | Texas | 678,815 |
| Portland | Oregon | 652,503 |
| Detroit | Michigan | 645,705 |
| Las Vegas | Nevada | 641,903 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.