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Worcester, MA Metro Area

The Worcester, MA metro area is one county in Massachusetts: Worcester County. About 888,502 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 3.1% more than in April 2020.

Worcester County, centralWorcester
Worcester County in Massachusetts
Population, July 2025
888,502 3.1% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Worcester County
Land area
1,511 sq mi (3,913 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Massachusetts
Combined statistical area
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH
CBSA code
49340
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The county in the Worcester, MA metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Worcester CountyCentral888,502

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Worcester207,055 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 6 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area5,034,221 people
  2. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area1,708,161 people
  3. Manchester-Nashua, NH Metro Area433,415 people
  4. Barnstable Town, MA Metro Area233,539 people
  5. Concord, NH Micro Area158,078 people
  6. Laconia, NH Micro Area65,147 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Putnam, CT Micro Area25 mi south
  2. Amherst Town-Northampton, MA Metro Area36 mi west
  3. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area37 mi southeast
  4. Springfield, MA Metro Area39 mi west
  5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area41 mi east
  6. Greenfield, MA Micro Area47 mi northwest
  7. Manchester-Nashua, NH Metro Area53 mi north
  8. Keene, NH Micro Area54 mi northwest

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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