Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a western suburb of Boston; and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. At the 2020 U.S. census, its population was 27,295, an increase of 10.4% from 2010.
Looking north on Leonard Street in the town center
Boston & Maine Railroad Station at Belmont Center; the platforms are now used for MBTA Commuter Rail, but the building itself is now privately owned
A small Wellington Hill Station building has been carefully preserved, having been relocated and repurposed several times after it was constructed in the 1840s.
Belmont Town Hall c. 1913, architects Hartwell and Richardson
Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England, and its surrounding areas. The most stringent definition of the region consists of most of the eastern third of mainland Massachusetts, excluding the Merrimack Valley and most of Southeastern Massachusetts, though most definitions include much of these areas and portions of southern New Hampshire.
Boston in July 2015
Cambridge and Boston with MIT and Kendall Square in the foreground and Boston's Financial District in the background
Downtown Providence, Rhode Island in 2008
St. Patrick's Day Parade in Scituate, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County, the municipality with the highest percentage identifying Irish ancestry in the United States, at 47.5% in 2010. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Greater Boston.
