Suffolk County, Massachusetts

• White (non-Hispanic) 342,378 43.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 182,283 23.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 134,542 17.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 71,965 9.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 44,270 5.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 979 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 317 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 8,387 1.1%

• Under 18 125,812 16.0%
• 18–24 107,208 13.7%
• 25–44 282,693 36.0%
• 45–64 165,249 21.0%
• 65 and over 104,159 13.3%

Median household income

$95,174

90% interval $91,571–$98,777

−$9,395 vs MA · 8th of 14

Below poverty line

15.5%

90% interval 14.1%–16.9%

+5.7 pp vs MA · 2nd of 14

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

−0.15 pp vs. state

County GDP

$190.8B

24.51% of state

Avg. annual pay

$138,226

Establishments

34,189

• Education & health services 219,625 30.8%
• Professional & business services 141,599 19.9%
• Financial activities 81,844 11.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 77,871 10.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 70,528 9.9%
• Public administration 40,213 5.6%
• Information 23,358 3.3%
• Construction 14,992 2.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

36.5%

−26.0 pp vs MA · 14th of 14

Median gross rent

$2,129

+$367 vs MA · 4th of 14

Owner-occupied

119,335

Renter-occupied

207,832

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $285,188/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $58,422/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 222,280 74.8%
• Republican 66,480 22.4%
• Other / third-party 8,281 2.8%

• Spanish 143,206 19.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 28,557 3.8%
• Chinese 26,959 3.6%
• Vietnamese 10,834 1.4%
• Arabic 7,930 1.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 6,943 0.9%
• Korean 3,354 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 3,222 0.4%
• Tagalog 1,064 0.1%

Households

327,167

Family households

155,144

47.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

34,606

22.3% of families

Single-mother families

21,367

13.8% of families

Veterans

14,271

2.2% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 329,380 41.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 67,011 8.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 41,180 5.2%
• Mainline Protestant 17,160 2.2%
• Black Protestant 7,527 0.9%
• Orthodox 7,375 0.9%

Health insured

96.9%

±0.2 pp

Uninsured

3.1%

±0.2 pp

3rd of 14

With a disability

12.6%

±0.4 pp

8th of 14

Bachelor's or higher

50.6%

±0.8 pp

+3.3 pp vs MA · 6th of 14

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

3.7%

90% interval 3.4%–4.0% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

Suffolk County Superior Court

Judges

19 (Superior Court Justice base assignments per county (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 mass.gov/orgs/superior-court. Under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 212, Justices may be reassigned across counties by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court Department; counts here reflect typical base allocations rather than a permanently-fixed roster. Other Trial Court departments (District Court, Boston Municipal Court, Probate and Family Court, Juvenile Court, Land Court, Housing Court) handle limited-jurisdiction matters and are not counted here.)

Court seats

Boston

Traffic fatalities

33

5.01 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

31