Number of People

The population of the greater Boston area is 4.5 million with the Boston metro area at 645,169 people.

Population Density

There are 13,321 people per square mile, which will only help our strategy of gathering in a public place as well as in small groups throughout the week.

Diversity

Boston is known for its diversity as a city. There are roughly 17 nationalities represented by 10,000 people or more in the city. This will help us accomplish our mission to reach the nations.

Neighborhoods

Boston is strategically broken into 21 recognized neighborhoods. Because the neighborhoods are already established, this will ultimately help execute our mission and vision of planting other gatherings throughout the city.

A Youthful City

The median age of the city of Boston is 31 years old with 71% of the population being under the age of 44.

A City of Future Leaders

Known as the “Athens of America”, the city of Boston contains 250,000+ college and graduate students in Boston and Cambridge alone; with over 100 colleges and universities for those students.

Religious Statistics

The Northeast was recently named the least-churched area of the United States, with the state of Massachusetts being the #4 least-churched state.

Roughly 7% of the population acknowledges an evangelical affiliation with only 2% of the people attending an evangelical church.

There are over 670 churches (both catholic and protestant) in the greater Boston area. This means that there is roughly 1 church for every 6716 people. To put this into prospective, there is 1 church for every 600 people in the city of Charlotte, NC.

The city of Boston is the known headquarters for Unitarian Universalism and the church of the Christian Scientists.