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Worcester, Massachusetts
City
Downtown Worcester
Flag Seal
Nickname(s): The City of the Seven Hills, The Heart of the Commonwealth, Wormtown, Woo-town, The Woo
Location within Worcester County
Worcester Location within Massachusetts Show map of Massachusetts Worcester Location within the United States Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 42°16′17″N 71°47′56″W / 42.27139°N 71.79889°W / 42.27139; -71.79889
Country	United States
State	Massachusetts
County	Worcester
Region	New England
Historic colonies	Massachusetts Bay Colony Dominion of New England Province of Massachusetts Bay
Settled	1673
Incorporated as a town	June 14, 1722
Incorporated as a city	February 29, 1848
Named for	Worcester , Worcestershire
Government
? Type	Council?manager
Area ^[1]
? City	38.44 sq mi (99.57 km ²)
? Land	37.36 sq mi (96.76 km ²)
? Water	1.08 sq mi (2.81 km ²)
Elevation	480 ft (146 m)
Population ( 2020 ) ^[2]
? City	206,518 (US: 114th )
? Density	5,527.78/sq mi (2,134.27/km ²)
? Urban	482,085 ( US: 87th )
? Urban density	1,852.1/sq mi (715.1/km ²)
? Metro	862,111 (US: US: 69th )
Time zone	UTC−5 ( Eastern )
? Summer ( DST )	UTC−4 ( Eastern )
ZIP Codes	01601?01610, 01612?01615, 01653?01655
Area code	508 / 774
FIPS code	25-82000
GNIS feature ID	0617867
Website	www .worcesterma .gov

Worcester is a city of Worcester County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It is the county seat of Worcester County . About 206,000 people were living in Worcester as of 2020 .

Worcester is 40 miles from Boston, Massachusetts and 40 miles from Springfield, Massachusetts ?right in the middle.

In 1774, the first public reading of the United States Declaration of Independence in New England took place in Worcester.

Sister cities [ change | change source ]

References [ change | change source ]

↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files" . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved May 21, 2022 .
↑ "QuickFacts: Worcester city, Massachusetts" . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved March 5, 2024 .

Other websites [ change | change source ]

Worcester official website

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Worcester, Massachusetts .

v t e Municipalities and communities of Worcester County, Massachusetts , United States
County seat : Worcester
Cities	Fitchburg Gardner Leominster Southbridge Worcester
Towns	Ashburnham Athol Auburn Barre Berlin Blackstone Bolton Boylston Brookfield Charlton Clinton Douglas Dudley East Brookfield Grafton Hardwick Harvard Holden Hopedale Hubbardston Lancaster Leicester Lunenburg Mendon Milford Millbury Millville New Braintree North Brookfield Northborough Northbridge Oakham Oxford Paxton Petersham Phillipston Princeton Royalston Rutland Shrewsbury Southborough Spencer Sterling Sturbridge Sutton Templeton Upton Uxbridge Warren Webster West Boylston West Brookfield Westborough Westminster Winchendon
CDPs	Athol (CDP) Baldwinville Barre (CDP) Brookfield (CDP) Clinton (CDP) Cordaville Devens ‡ East Brookfield (CDP) East Douglas Fiskdale Hopedale (CDP) Lunenburg (CDP) Milford (CDP) North Brookfield (CDP) Northborough (CDP) Oxford (CDP) Petersham (CDP) Rutland (CDP) South Ashburnham South Lancaster Spencer (CDP) Sturbridge (CDP) Upton Warren (CDP) Webster (CDP) West Brookfield (CDP) West Warren Westborough (CDP) Whitinsville Winchendon (CDP)
Other villages	Gilbertville Ironstone Linwood North Uxbridge Old Furnace Still River Union Chapel Wheelockville Wheelwright
Ghost town	Dana
Indian reservations	Chaubunagungamaug Reservation Hassanamisco Reservation
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

v t e Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Boston (capital)
Topics	Index Geography History People Transportation Villages	Seal of Massachusetts
Regions	Cape Ann Greater Boston Greater Lowell Cape Cod ,
Counties	Barnstable Berkshire Bristol Dukes Essex Franklin Hampden Hampshire Middlesex Nantucket Norfolk Plymouth Suffolk Worcester Note: Nine former counties were in the District of Maine
Cities	Agawam Amesbury Attleboro Barnstable Beverly Boston Braintree Bridgewater Brockton Cambridge Chelsea Chicopee East Longmeadow Easthampton Everett Fall River Fitchburg Framingham Franklin Gardner Gloucester Greenfield Haverhill Holyoke Lawrence Leominster Lowell Lynn Malden Marlborough Medford Melrose Methuen New Bedford Newburyport Newton North Adams Northampton Palmer Peabody Pittsfield Quincy Randolph Revere Salem Somerville Southbridge Springfield Taunton Waltham Watertown Westfield West Springfield Weymouth Winthrop Woburn Worcester Note: Municipalities not listed have a town meeting form of government (see all municipalities )

v t e All-America City Award Hall of Fame (1949?2021)
Three-time winners	Alexandria, Virginia (1963, 1984, 1985) Allentown, Pennsylvania (1962, 1974, 1975) Asheville, North Carolina (1951, 1969, 1997) Bloomington, Indiana (1958, 1981, 1982) Boston, Massachusetts (1949, 1951, 1962) Cincinnati, Ohio (1949, 1950, 1981) Dayton, Ohio (1951, 1978, 1991) Delray Beach, Florida (1993, 2001, 2017) Edinburg, Texas (1968, 1995, 2000) Fayetteville, North Carolina (1985, 2001, 2011) Fort Worth, Texas (1964, 1993, 2011) Gastonia, North Carolina (1963, 2000, 2010) Grand Rapids, Michigan (1949, 1960, 1981) Hampton, Virginia (1972, 2002, 2014) Hickory, North Carolina (1967, 1987, 2007) Independence, Missouri (1961, 1982, 2001) Laurinburg, North Carolina (1956, 1967, 2003) Louisville, Kentucky (1963, 1995, 2012) Norfolk, Virginia (1959, 2013, 2016) Rochester, New York (1981, 1998, 2020) Seward, Alaska (1963, 1965, 2005) Shreveport, Louisiana (1953, 1980, 1999) Somerville, Massachusetts (1972, 2009, 2015) Spokane, Washington (1975, 2004, 2015) Tacoma, Washington (1956, 1984, 1998)
Four-time winners	Akron, Ohio (1980, 1981, 1995, 2008) Anchorage, Alaska (1956, 1965, 1985, 2002) Baltimore, Maryland (1952, 1977, 1991, 2012) Columbus, Ohio (1958, 1987, 1992, 2006) Fort Wayne, Indiana (1983, 1998, 2009, 2021) Grand Island, Nebraska (1955, 1967, 1981, 1982) New Haven, Connecticut (1958, 1998, 2003, 2008) Peoria, Illinois (1953, 1966, 1989, 2013) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1949, 1951, 1957, 1994) Rockville, Maryland (1954, 1961, 1977, 1979) Toledo, Ohio (1950, 1983, 1984, 1998)
Five-time winners	Cleveland, Ohio (1949, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1993) Dubuque, Iowa (2007, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) El Paso, Texas (1969, 2010, 2018, 2020, 2021) Phoenix, Arizona (1950, 1958, 1980, 1989, 2009) Stockton, California (1999, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2018) Tupelo, Mississippi (1967, 1989, 1999, 2011, 2015) Wichita, Kansas (1961, 1993, 1999, 2009, 2019) Worcester, Massachusetts (1949, 1960, 1965, 1981, 2000)
Six-time winners	Des Moines, Iowa (1949, 1977, 1982, 2003, 2010, 2017)
Seven-time winners	Kansas City, Missouri (1950, 1951, 1986, 1994, 2006, 2017, 2021) Roanoke, Virginia (1952, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1996, 2012, 2017) San Antonio, Texas (1949, 1951, 1983, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)

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