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Massachusetts had an estimated 2009 population of 6,593,587.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = United States Census Bureau )〕 As of 2007, Massachusetts is estimated to be the third most densely populated U.S. state, with 822.7 per square mile, after New Jersey and Rhode Island, and ahead of Connecticut and Maryland. Massachusetts has seen both population increases and decreases in recent years. For example, while some Bay Staters are leaving, others including European, Asian, Hispanic and African immigrants, arrive to replace them. Massachusetts in 2004 included 881,400 foreign-born residents. Most Bay Staters live within a 60 mile radius of the State House on Beacon Hill, often called Greater Boston: the City of Boston, neighboring cities and towns, the North Shore, South Shore, the northern, western, and southern suburbs, and most of southeastern and central Massachusetts. Eastern Massachusetts is more urban than Western Massachusetts, which is primarily rural, save for the cities of Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke and Northampton, which serve as centers of population density in the Pioneer Valley of the Connecticut River. The center of population of Massachusetts is located in Middlesex County, in the town of Natick.〔(Population and Population Centers by State: 2000 ). United States Census Bureau, United States Deparatment of Commerce. Retrieved January 14, 2007.〕 ==Race, ethnicity, and ancestry== The largest ancestry groups are:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=American FactFinder - Results )〕 * 22.8% Irish * 13.9% Italian * 10.7% English * 7.8% French * 6.4% German * 5.0% Polish * 4.7% Portuguese * 4.4% American * 4.1% Puerto Rican * 3.8% French Canadian * 2.4% Scottish * 2.0% Chinese * 1.9% Russian * 1.8% West Indian * 1.8% Sub-Saharan African * 1.8% Dominican * 1.8% Swedish * 1.2% Greek * 1.1% Asian Indian * 1.1% Arab The five largest reported ancestries in Massachusetts are Irish (22.8%), Italian (13.9%), French/French Canadian (or Franco-American) (11.6%), English (10.7%), and German (6.4%). Massachusetts is the most Irish state in the country in percentage of total population. Massachusetts also has large communities of people of Finnish and Swedish descent; Armenian, Lebanese descent; and Italian descent. Other influential ethnicities are Greek Americans, Lithuanian Americans and Polish Americans. Massachusetts "Yankees," of colonial English ancestry, still have a strong presence. French Americans are the largest group in parts of western and central Massachusetts. Boston's largest immigrant group is the Haitians. Fall River and New Bedford on the south coast have large populations of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Cape Verdean heritage, all of which are also prevalent in the Brockton area. There is a growing Brazilian population in the Boston area (especially in Framingham) and an abundant population of Brazilians thrive on Cape Cod especially in Barnstable, Falmouth, and Yarmouth. Lowell, in the northeast of the state, is home to a large Cambodian (Khmer) community, second in the country to the concentration of Cambodians in Long Beach, California. Although many of the Native Americans have intermarried with other ethnic groups (or died in King Philip's War of 1675), the Wampanoag tribe maintains reservations at Aquinnah, at Grafton, on Martha's Vineyard, and at Mashpee on Cape Cod.〔Associated Press. (Wampanoag Tribe Receives Federal Recognition ) ''WBZ-TV,'' Boston Massachusetts. Retrieved February 20, 2007.〕〔Weber, David. (Mashpee Wampanoag Indians receive federal recognition ) ''The Boston Globe'' February 15, 2007. Retrieved February 20, 2007.〕 The Nipmuck maintain two state-recognized reservations in the central part of the state. Many Wampanoags and other native people live outside of reservations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demographics of Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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