Department of Public Health, Population Health Information Tool
Find Massachusetts health data by community, county, and region, including population demographics. Build custom data reports with over 100 health and social determinants of health data indicators and explore over 28,000 current and historical data layers in the map room.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Provides half-year reports on the number of times air emissions have exceeded regulatory limits. You can filter reports by pollutants, parameters, and types of operational conditions at each facility. Data is available from 2002 to the present. This dataset is hosted on an MA Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP) website.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Search a dataset of more than 44,000 hazardous waste sites & contaminated properties in Massachusetts, ranging from sites contaminated by spills during an oil delivery and Superfund sites. Data includes location, chemicals, cleanup status, and files related to the site. This dataset is hosted in the Energy & Environmental Affairs Data Portal, an open data hub for state environmental data.
On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed into law. This law provides resources through the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) to local governments to respond to the public health emergency caused by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).
The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) provided Massachusetts with a total of approximately $2.7 B through the new Coronavirus Relief Fund (CvRF) to use for expenditures related to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provided approximately $8.7 billion to Massachusetts through the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The Commonwealth received $5.3 billion from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSFRF). Municipalities and functional counties in the Commonwealth received $3.4 billion from the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF). Tribal Governments in the Commonwealth received $25 million from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
Executive Office of the Trial Court, Trial Court Department of Research and Planning, Massachusetts Court System
Dashboard of court-ordered evictions (or executions) for non-payment of rent. All data is compiled from the Trial Court's case tracking system, Masscourts, and is updated weekly.
Division of Health Care Facility Licensure and Certification, Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences
Access available resources below such as data reports, and Public Health Council presentations.
Department of Public Health, Population Health Information Tool
COVID-19 deeply impacted communities across Massachusetts, but communities of color are bearing a higher burden of cases relative to their population size.