NATION : 17% at Home in E. Coast Corridor
The Boston-Washington urban corridor is home to one in six Americans, the Census Bureau reported today.
Data from a new census study also shows that the corridor contains almost one in four of the Americans who reside in metropolitan areas.
The data, for 1987, shows 43.5 million people living in the East Coast corridor, which includes 25 contiguous metropolitan statistical areas. With a national population of 243,396,000 people as of July 1, 1987, that means about 17% of the nation’s population live in the megalopolis. And the bureau reported that 187,072,000 Americans live in metropolitan areas, nearly 23% of them in the Boston-Washington region.
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