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Massachusetts
Top 100
City Population
Chelmsford 33,800
Easton 23,300
Milton 25,700
Westborough 19,000
Wilbraham 14,900
Other cities
City Population
Abington 15,100
Acton 20,400
Agawam 28,300
Amesbury 12,500
Amherst Center 17,600
Andover 8,100
Arlington 41,400
Ashland 14,900
Attleboro 43,300
Barnstable Town 50,200
Bedford 12,400
Bellingham 15,700
Belmont 23,700
Beverly 40,200
Billerica 39,300
Boston 557,400
Braintree 33,500
Bridgewater 26,100
Brookline 59,100
Burlington 22,700
Cambridge 102,200
Canton 20,900
Carver 12,200
Clinton 8,200
Concord 17,000
Danvers 26,100
Dedham 23,300
Dracut 28,300
Duxbury 15,300
Easthampton 16,700
Foxborough 16,800
Framingham 65,300
Franklin 29,600
Gloucester 30,800
Hanover 13,600
Haverhill 60,500
Hingham 20,600
Holbrook 11,000
Holden 16,400
Holliston 15,000
Hopkinton 2,700
Hudson 14,100
Hull 11,800
Ipswich 13,400
Kingston 12,300
Leicester 11,000
Leominster 43,400
Lexington 29,800
Lincoln 8,100
Longmeadow 16,100
Lowell 104,300
Lynnfield 11,800
Malden 56,500
Mansfield 22,800
Marblehead 20,500
Marlborough 36,400
Marshfield 25,900
Maynard 10,400
Medford 55,100
Medway 12,700
Melrose 26,400
Methuen 45,300
Milford 25,400
Millbury 13,800
Nantucket 10,600
Natick 31,900
Needham 28,700
Newburyport 18,100
Newton 83,700
Norfolk 10,200
North Andover 28,200
North Attleborough Center 17,700
North Reading 13,600
Northampton 29,500
Northbridge 14,300
Norton Center 2,500
Norwood 28,200
Peabody 49,300
Pembroke 18,100
Pepperell 11,500
Plymouth 8,300
Quincy 89,900
Randolph 30,600
Raynham 12,000
Reading 23,100
Rockport 7,900
Salem 42,200
Sandwich 21,600
Saugus 26,400
Scituate 18,500
Seekonk 13,700
Sharon 17,500
Shrewsbury 34,100
Somerset 19,100
Southborough 9,500
Southbridge 13,200
Springfield 152,700
Stoneham 21,800
Stoughton 27,400
Sudbury 16,700
Swampscott 14,900
Tewksbury 28,500
Townsend 9,100
Tyngsborough 11,000
Wakefield 24,600
Walpole 23,200
Waltham 59,900
Watertown 32,300
Wayland 13,000
Wellesley 26,100
Westfield 41,000
Weston 11,700
Westport 15,400
Westwood 14,400
Weymouth 53,800
Williamstown 4,700
Wilmington 21,600
Winchester 20,400
Winthrop 16,800
Woburn 38,300
Worcester 179,700
Wrentham 11,000
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Scarsdale $219,317
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Montecito $3,157,233
Hillsborough $2,606,764
Paradise Valley $2,075,930
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State College 76.5%
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Amherst Center 73.7%
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Storrs 20.65
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