In talking about the size of Ipswich, the town government website's history of our town says only that "The growth and development of Ipswich as a larger town - never a suburb - came only after 1945 with the great outward expansion of population from Boston." Serious history buffs want to know about the town's population over the last century in a little more detail.

A reference librarian supplied these detailed figures--

Ipswich's population was as follows
From the Annual Report of the Vital Statistics...published by the State of Massachusetts:

1905----5,205
1910----5,777
1915----6,272

From the Commonwealth's Decennial Census:

1935----6,217
1945----6,610
1955----7,841
1965----9,955

From the Census of Population:

1960----8,544
1970---10,750
1980---11,158
1990---11,873

The most recent US census in 2000 gave the population of Ipswich as 12,987.

Presenting these figures as a chart may make them easier to follow:

You may wish rather than following the single statistic of people count over the long span of a century to see how a variety of statistical descriptions of our town changed between the last two censuses.

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