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Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, directly north of Boston and bordering Charlestown, with a population of 49,075 at the 2020 census and 17,211 households.

Everett was settled in 1630 as part of Charlestown and later Malden, separated from Malden and was incorporated as a town in 1870, and became a city in 1892.

The city was named for Edward Everett, who served as a U.S. Representative and Senator, the 15th governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, Secretary of State and president of Harvard University.

Everett was the last city in the United States to have a bicameral legislature, with a seven-member Board of Aldermen and an eighteen-member Common Council, until voters approved a unicameral eleven-member City Council in 2011.

Encore Boston Harbor, a casino resort on the Mystic River, opened on June 23, 2019, after a 2.6 billion dollar development described as the largest private single-phase construction project in the history of Massachusetts.

The Everett Marine Terminal began importing liquefied natural gas in 1971 as the first terminal of its kind in the country, and as of 2023 it received 99 percent of liquefied natural gas imports into the United States.

The Mystic Generating Station in Everett has the largest generating capacity of any electrical plant in Massachusetts.

The Leavitt Corporation has manufactured its trademark Teddie Peanut Butter in Everett since 1924.

Everett's population grew 17.8 percent between the 2010 census, when it had 41,667 residents, and the 2020 census.

The median age in Everett was 35.2 years at the 2020 census, and 28.5 percent of residents were Hispanic or Latino, with large Brazilian and Italian communities and about a third of residents born outside the United States as of 2010.