Document Type
Research Report
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Abstract
This report provides a descriptive snapshot of selected economic, social, educational, and demographic indicators pertaining to Latinos in the cities of Somerville and Everett. It reflects a commitment by UMass Boston’s Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy to provide periodic updates on the growing Latino population in Massachusetts.
The report on Somerville and Everett is part of a larger series that covers fourteen other cities, or clusters of cities, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Each report analyzes data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data are analyzed by Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), which consists of a minimum population of 100,000 and is the smallest geographic area publically available for individual-level analysis. According to the 2010 Census, Somerville accounted for nearly two-thirds of the population in the PUMA consisting of these two cities, while Everett accounted for 35.5%. The majority of the Latino population, on the other hand, lived in Everett (52.3%), while 47.7% lived in Somerville.
Since ACS data is collected from a sample of the population, there is some variation associated with each population estimate. In the bar graphs in this report, the ‘I’ that accompanies each bar represents the confidence interval for that estimate; we expect that another sample would generate an estimate within this interval 95% of the time.
In this report, Latinos are compared to non-Latino whites, non-Latino blacks, and Asians for selected demographic, economic, and social characteristics. The number of ethno-racial groups included in a particular analysis may vary; each ethno-racial group is included in the analysis only when the observed sample size is large enough to produce reliable population estimates.
Somerville and Everett are home to an estimated 25,422 Latinos, who make up 21.6% of the cities’ combined population. Whites constitute the largest ethnoracial group (62.7%), while Asians account for 4.7% and blacks 8.2%.
Recommended Citation
Granberry, Phillip; Rustan, Sarah; and Karp, Faye, "Latinos in Massachusetts Selected Areas: Somerville and Everett" (2013). Gastón Institute Publications. 175.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/gaston_pubs/175