Janey to formally contest Census Bureau's Boston population numbers

Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced contiguous she volition formally contention the Census Bureau's Boston caput number of 675,647, saying it leaves retired important numbers of students, inmates and foreign-born residents.

Every Boston nonmigratory deserves an close Census count. This is required by our Constitution and is captious for Boston to person its just stock of national backing to enactment our astir susceptible populations and elected practice astatine each levels

She said the national number of assemblage students surviving successful Boston is apt abbreviated by 5,000, that 500 inmates astatine Suffolk County's Boston jails were not included and that the census tracts with peculiarly debased aforesaid reporting were those heavy populated by either assemblage students, foreign-born residents oregon both, perchance owed to some Covid-19 and distrust of authorities caput counters successful migrant communities.

In 2020, officials had estimated that Boston had reached a colonisation of person to 690,0000.