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Brookline

town in Massachusetts, United States
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Summary

Brookline is a New England town[1]. Brookline ranks in the top 0.59% of new england town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,095 views/month, #3 of 511).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Norfolk County[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: town[5], suburb[6]
  • Shares border with: Boston[7], Newton[8]
  • Postal code: 02445[9], 02446[10]
  • Part of: Massachusetts House of Representatives' 15th Norfolk district[11], Massachusetts House of Representatives' 10th Suffolk district[12], Massachusetts House of Representatives' 15th Suffolk district[13], Massachusetts House of Representatives' 18th Suffolk district[14], Massachusetts Senate's First Middlesex and Norfolk district[15], Greater Boston[16]
  • Commons category: Brookline, Massachusetts[17]
  • Located in time zone: Eastern Time Zone[18]
  • Local dialing code: 617[19]
  • Inception: 1638[20]
  • Official website: https://www.brooklinema.gov/[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Brookline, Massachusetts[22]
  • Population: 484[23], 58,732[24], 59,180[25], 63,191[26]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28]
  • Official name: Brookline[29]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Brookline, Massachusetts[30]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Brookline, Massachusetts[31]
  • Number of households: 24,960[32]
  • Native label: Brookline[33]
  • Category for people buried here: Q134587558[34]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Brookline, Massachusetts[35]
  • Different from: Brooklyn[36]
  • Elevation above sea level: 15 m[37]
  • Area: 6.8 square mile[38]
  • Category for maps or plans: Category:Maps of Brookline, Massachusetts[39]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Brookline include Brookline[40], a village in the United States[41], in United States[42], founded in 1971[43].

Why It Matters

Brookline has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Brookline is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

Entities named for Brookline include Brookline[40], a village in the United States[41], in United States[42], founded in 1971[43].

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Retrieved . digital.newberry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . mapc.org. Retrieved . mapc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . factfinder2.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . datacommons.org. datacommons.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ['brookline', 'brookline-mass']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: brookline, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920396|brookline (#289920396)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  2. 16w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+484'}, {'amount': '+58732'}, {'amount': '+59180'} +1
    Located in the statistical territorial entity → Boston–Cambridge–Newton NECTA division
    Topic's main category → Category:Brookline, Massachusetts
    Number of households → {'amount': '+24960'}
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1788677, adds FactGrid ID"
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