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Demographics (phase 1 project)

Mattapan, Massachusetts has a population of approximately 23,500 people, When it comes to ages in Mattapan, about 22,600 of the people that live in the city of Mattapan are about 36 years old. Mattapan's population are between the ages of 0 and 54 (about 76%) while the rest of the population has citizens that are 55 and over (about 24%).The average income for families in Mattapan is about $54,119 and the average individual earns about $21,431 a year. The majority of these families do not have children of 18 years or under, according to Boston Redevelopment Authority; 39.4% of Mattapan's families do have children that are under the age of 18. Over half of these families in Mattapan are single parent families, however, only 18.5% of these single parent families are headed by the male of the house; leaving 81.5% of families to be run by the female of the house.

Workplace

Many of Mattapan's population works in the educational field (37.3%), this percentage also includes people that work in healthcare an social assistance. The next leading profession in Mattapan is retail service with holds about 10% of the population. Other jobs that Mattapan citizens have are administrative (about 9%), arts, entertainment, etc (about 8%), or real estate/finance (about 7%).

Citizenship (new section)

Though Mattapan can be seen a diverse city of Boston, approximately 35.6% of Mattapan's population is foreign born, and a little over half of those who are foreign born became United States citizens (53.8% of foreign born citizens) . Since 1980, the majority of Mattapan has been inhabited by foreign born citizens, and until about 1990 many of these foreign born inhabitants became U.S. citizens; after the 90's many of the people that came the United States did not become a U.S. citizen. The majority of the population that were born outside of the United States are Haitian (33.2%), while Jamaicans and people born in Trinidad and Tobago make up about 27.6% of Mattapan's population.

Languages (new section)

Though Mattapan is racially diverse, one of the dominantly spoken languages is English. About 18.9% of the population speak French, this includes the Patois, Creole, and Cajun languages. Only a small portion of the population speak Portuguese Creole which is about .3%

The languages spoken at home also vary from age, for example about 68.2% of children that are 5-17 years old speak only English. While only 16.9% of those children speak other Indo-European languages. Many of adults that are 18-24 years of age speak other Indo-European languages (23.4%); while only 63.9% of adults that are 18 to 24 years old speak English.

Transportation (editing section)

There are several forms of transportation including the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line. The M-line is owned by the MBTA and is an extension of the Red line that goes from the Mattapan station all the way to the Alewife station. In the beginning of 2016, the Mattapan trolley was in danger of being derailed and being transformed into bus routes instead; which would be more cost effective than keeping the trolley as rail line., however, Boston officials have fought to cancel transforming the Mattapan trolley into buses because although this would be more cost effective, property values would decrease and would "most importantly, torpedo a mixed-use, mixed-income residential-retail project slated for the Mattapan station parking lot". At this point in time, the project to convert the Trolley into buses will not be carried out.