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A dataset containing geographic identifiers, administrative classifications, land and water area, population counts, housing units, and related attributes for all counties in Massachusetts. See link

Format

A shapefile with one row per Massachusetts city or town and the following variables:

FIPSID

Character

COUNTY20

Character. 2020 Census county FIPS code.

AREA_ACRES

Numeric.

OBJECTID

Numeric.

SHAPE_AREA

Numeric.

SHAPE_LEN

Numeric.

geometry

Numeric.

Source

U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Decennial Census; TIGER/MAF geographic products.

Details

This dataset is typically used for environmental exposure assessment and can be joined to town-level geographic or demographic datasets using COUNTY20.