WRRB has a long history of work on the Worcester Regional Airport. This updated brief revisits the airport, examining ORH's history, recent passenger activity, regional competition, ORH's economic impact on the region, and Massport's current strategy for expanding service.

The latest Insights Insider explores poverty and cost burden throughout Worcester County. In partnership with Greater Worcester Community Foundation and using data from Worcester County Insights, we analyzed changes in household incomes, household cost burden, rates of poverty in Worcester County over time, compared poverty rates in rural, suburban, and urban communities.

The Opportunity Zone (OZ) program uses federal tax incentives to encourage private investment in low-income communities and was made into a permanent, decennial program through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA). This brief shifted attention to the next round of OZ designations. The Healey-Driscoll Administration nominated 13 census tracts in Worcester County which are awaiting certification by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

WRRB releases the fifth edition, Insights Insider: Worcester County's Growing Job Sectors. Insights Insider #5 will analyze job growth as well as commuting patterns within Worcester County.

Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is a key economic engine for municipalities. It provides space for jobs for the community, provides own economic value through its use and outputs, and serves as an important source of revenue for City governments.

The WRRB's Broadband Explorer is an interactive tool to show broadband status and other selected data on a Census Tract by Census Tract basis (or Zip Code if only available) for households in Auburn, Boylston, Grafton, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Paxton, Shrewsbury, West Boylston, and Worcester.

Over the past few decades, the City of Worcester has undergone substantial demographic and economic changes. As an economic and population hub in central Massachusetts, studying past changes helps us to better understand the current regional conditions and to think in a more informed way about the future.

The City Manager's office put forth a proposal to adopt an "inclusionary zoning" (IZ) policy to amend the Worcester Zoning Ordinance, for new housing built in the city.

This document expands on that report, by looking at three years of data, examining internet connection speed, and WPS student access.

The American Dream is a nebulous concept—success looks like different things to different people. But one relative constant is the concept of homeownership.