What is the current population of Middlesex County, MA?
Middlesex County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the most populous county in Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,465,396. The center of population of Massachusetts is located in Middlesex County, in the town of Natick. Its county seats are Cambridge and Lowell. The county government was abolished in 1997 but the county boundaries continue to describe a state district for court jurisdictions and for other administrative purposes. The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered “that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires”. Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, and Reading. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
