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Somerville is not necessarily typical, though. Not sure if it is still true, but as of a few years ago it had the highest population density in all of Massachus
by Feneric 10y ago
Somerville is not necessarily typical, though. Not sure if it is still true, but as of a few years ago it had the highest population density in all of Massachusetts. Higher than Boston, higher than Cambridge, higher than Worcester. Introducing it as an ordinary suburb of Boston is perhaps a little misleading.
- eru 10y agoJudging by the pictures in the article, Somerville looks very sparse. And that's already the most dense?
- tropo 10y agoYes. It's houses next to Boston. Boston itself has other stuff. People aren't supposed to live in the convention center, baseball stadium, or airport.
- ocschwar 10y agoEach of those houses is home to two or three families.
- bzbarsky 10y agoLooks very sparse compared to what? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... it's the 16th densest city or town in the US. The only place in the US that is both denser and has more people is New York City. Now you could argue that US cities are generally not that dense; NYC is half the density of Paris. But Amsterdam, say, is only 2/3 as dense as Somerville is. Berlin is even less dense than that (but I know its boundaries contain some serious chunks of park/woodland).
- cwmma 10y agoIt has the highest density because it doesn't have any large parks or open space unlike boston which has the islands the arboretum and the airport or Cambridge which has a large pond