page_title: Barnstable County, Massachusetts
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Barnstable County, Massachusetts / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Barnstable County municipality populations (1900-2010).
context_page_description: Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 215,888. Its county seat is Barnstable. The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands.
  Barnstable County comprises the Barnstable Town, MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.
  Barnstable County was formed as part of the Plymouth Colony on 2 June 1685, including the towns of Falmouth, Sandwich and others lying to the east and north on Cape Cod. Plymouth Colony was merged into the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
caption: Barnstable county municipal population trends.
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