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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Norfolk County is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 725,981. Its county seat is Dedham. It is the fourth most populous county in the United States whose county seat is neither a city nor a borough, and it is the second most populous county that has a county seat at a town. The county was named after the English county of the same name. Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves.
Norfolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Norfolk County is the 24th highest-income county in the United States with a median household income of $107,361. It is the wealthiest county in Massachusetts.
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Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year | Population
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1800 | 27,216
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1810 | 31,245
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1820 | 36,471
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1830 | 41,972
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1840 | 53,140
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1850 | 78,892
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1860 | 109,950
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1870 | 89,443
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1880 | 96,507
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1890 | 118,950
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1900 | 151,539
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1910 | 187,506
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1920 | 219,081
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1930 | 299,426
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1940 | 325,180
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1950 | 392,308
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1960 | 510,256
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1970 | 605,051
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1980 | 606,587
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1990 | 616,087
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Research Tips
External links
- Outstanding guide to Norfolk County, Massachusetts family history and genealogy (FamilySearch Research Wiki). History, towns and cities, county histories, birth, marriage, and death records, deeds, wills, court records, divorce records, naturalizations, tax records, warnings out, maps, and societies.
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