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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = New Bedford, Massachusetts
| settlement_type = [[City]]
| image_skyline = New Bedford, Massachusetts-view from harbor.jpeg
| imagesize = 250px
| image_caption = New Bedford Harbor
| image_flag =
| image_seal = Colorized =Official Seal of New Bedford, MassachusettsMA.svgpng
| image_blank_emblem = Logo of New Bedford, 2018.svg
| blank_emblem_type = [[Wordmark]]
| nickname = "The Whaling City"
| motto = ''Lucem Diffundo'' ([[Latin]])<br />"I Diffuse Light"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/Tourism/OurHistory/HistoryCitySeal.htm|title=Dept. Home - Tourism & Marketing |publisher=Tourism & Marketing |access-date=May 10, 2013|archive-date=October 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015134254/http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/Tourism/OurHistory/HistoryCitySeal.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
| image_map = Bristol County Massachusetts incorporated and unincorporated areas New Bedford highlighted.svg
| mapsize = 250px
| map_caption = Location in Bristol County, Massachusetts
| pushpin_map = Massachusetts#USA
| pushpin_label = New Bedford
| pushpin_label_position = left
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Massachusetts##Location in the United States
| coordinates = {{Coord|41|38|10|N|70|56|05|W|region:US-MA_type:city(103,000)|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{USA}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Massachusetts}}
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Massachusetts|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Bristol County, Massachusetts|Bristol]]
| established_title = Settled
| established_date = 1652
| established_title2 = Incorporated (town)
| established_date2 = 1787
| established_title3 = Incorporated (city)
| established_date3 = 1847
| government_type = [[Mayor–council government|Mayor–council]]
| leader_title = [[Mayor]]
| leader_name = Jonathan F. Mitchell
| leader_title1 = [[City Council]]
| leader_name1 = ''Councilors-at-Large:'' {{ubl |Ian Abreu |Shane A. Burgo |Naomi R.A. Carney |Brian K. Gomes |Linda M. Morad}} ''Ward Councilors by Ward:'' {{olist |Leo Choquette |Maria E. Giesta |Shawn Oliver |Derek Baptiste |Joseph P. Lopes |Ryan J. Pereira}}
| leader_title2 = [[School Committee]]
| leader_name2 = {{ubl |Jonathan F. Mitchell |Melissa M. Costa |Christopher A. Cotter | Colleen Dawicki |Ross M. Grace Jr. |Joaquim Livramento |Bruce J. Oliveira}}
| unit_pref = Imperial
| area_magnitude =
| area_total_km2 = 62.50
| area_total_sq_mi = 24.13
| area_land_km2 = 51.80
| area_land_sq_mi = 20.00
| area_water_km2 = 10.70
| area_water_sq_mi = 4.13
| elevation_m = 15
| elevation_ft = 50
| population_total = 102,882
| population_as_of = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_density_km2 = 1951.25
| population_density_sq_mi = 5053.70
| postal_code_type = ZIP Code
| postal_code = 02740, 02744–02746
| area_code = [[Area code 508|508]]/[[Area code 774|774]]
| website = {{URL|www.newbedford-ma.gov}}
| footnotes =
| timezone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset = &minus;5
| timezone_DST = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset_DST = &minus;4
| blank_name = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info = 25-45000
| blank1_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info = 0613714
| name =
| native_name = Accushnet
| native_name_lang = wam
| pop_est_as_of =
| pop_est_footnotes =
| population_est =
| population_footnotes =
| area_footnotes = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_25.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=May 21, 2022|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528021656/https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_25.txt|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
 
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015|archive-date=July 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701194652/https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
 
===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''New Bedford, Massachusetts – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – New Bedford city, Massachusetts|url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALSF12000.P004?g=160XX00US2545000|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – New Bedford city, Massachusetts|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2545000&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – New Bedford city, Massachusetts|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2545000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|70,520
|64,598
|style='background: #ffffe6; |57,498
|75.21%
|67.95%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |56.88%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|3,503
|4,919
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4,787
|3.74%
|5.17%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.74%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|394
|409
|style='background: #ffffe6; |265
|0.42%
|0.43%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.26%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|600
|879
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,010
|0.64%
|0.92%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.00%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|34
|15
|style='background: #ffffe6; |32
|0.04%
|0.02%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.03%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Some Other Race]] alone (NH)
|4,503
|4,224
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,688
|4.80%
|4.44%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.65%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race or Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|4,638
|4,112
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9,274
|4.95%
|4.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9.18%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|9,576
|15,916
|style='background: #ffffe6; |24,525
|10.21%
|16.74%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |24.26%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''93,768'''
|'''95,072'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''101,079'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}
 
New Bedford and surrounding communities are a part of the [[Providence metropolitan area]]. The Greater Providence-Fall River-New Bedford area is home to the largest [[Portuguese American|Portuguese-American]] community in the United States.
 
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New Bedford is governed by a Mayor-Council form of government. City Council members serve two-year terms.<ref name= "Citycode">{{cite web |title=New Bedford- Code of Ordinances- Charter |url=https://library.municode.com/ma/new_bedford/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH |website=MC New Bedford, MA |publisher=Municode Library |access-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819171439/https://library.municode.com/ma/new_bedford/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, following a change in the city charter, the mayoral term was doubled from two years to four years.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nesi |first1=Ted |title=Mayors in Fall River, Attleboro get challengers; Taunton's is unopposed |url=https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/mayors-in-fall-river-attleboro-get-challengers-tauntons-is-unopposed/ |access-date=August 5, 2021 |work=WPRI |publisher=Nexstar Media Group |date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814032222/https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/mayors-in-fall-river-attleboro-get-challengers-tauntons-is-unopposed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The council<ref name= "Citycode" /> and mayoral positions do not have term limits.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nesi |first1=Ted |title=At least 5 candidates running for New Bedford mayor |url=https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/5-candidates-running-for-new-bedford-mayor/ |access-date=August 5, 2021 |work=WPRI |publisher=Nexstar Media Group |date=September 3, 2019 |archive-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819171438/https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/5-candidates-running-for-new-bedford-mayor/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Former [[assistant U.S. Attorney]] [[Jon Mitchell (politician)|Jonathan F. Mitchell]], defeated State Representative [[Antonio Cabral|Antonio F.D. Cabral]] in the 2011 mayoral election.<ref>{{cite web |author=Dan McDonald |url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20111109%2FNEWS%2F111090329%2F-1%2Fnews |title=Mitchell tops Cabral to become 38th mayor of New Bedford |publisher=SouthCoastToday.com |date=November 9, 2011 |access-date=November 19, 2011 |archive-date=September 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910000445/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111109/NEWS/111090329/-1/news |url-status=live }}</ref> Mitchell was re-elected to his fifth consecutive term as mayor in the 2019 election, defeating challenger Tyson Moultrie.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mitchell wins re-election in New Bedford mayor race |url=https://www.wpri.com/news/elections/mitchell-wins-new-bedford-mayor-race/ |access-date=August 5, 2021 |work=WPRI |publisher=Nexstar Media Group |date=November 5, 2019 |archive-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819171441/https://www.wpri.com/news/elections/mitchell-wins-new-bedford-mayor-race/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In 2021, Joseph Lopes was re-elected to a second consecutive term as president of the City Council.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dunlop |first1=Kiernan |title=COVID and Cannabis: Newly re-elected New Bedford Council president discusses big issues for 2021 |url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/politics/government/2021/01/12/new-bedford-city-council-re-elects-joseph-lopes-president-covid-cannabis/6642347002/ |access-date=August 5, 2021 |work=South Coast Today |publisher=The Standard-Times |date=January 12, 2021 |archive-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819171439/https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/politics/government/2021/01/12/new-bedford-city-council-re-elects-joseph-lopes-president-covid-cannabis/6642347002/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;" | 1.40%
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New Bedford is part of the Providence TV market but is the city of license for two TV stations; [[WLNE-TV]] Channel 6 is the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate for the market, and [[WLWC]] Channel 28 is [[Court TV]] affiliate. [[The Portuguese Channel]] has its corporate offices and studios in the city at 638 Mount Pleasant Street in the Comcast building.
 
The city is home to three radio stations: FM stations [[WJFD-FM]]/97.3 (Portuguese-language) and [[WNBH|WNBH-FM]]/101.3, and [[WNBH|WNBH-AM]]/1340. All three have served the residents of New Bedford for many decades.
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* [[Cheryl Ann Araujo]] (March 28, 1961 {{ndash}} December 14, 1986) A New Bedford resident and victim of a violent gang-rape at the now closed Big Dan's Bar at the age of 21. Her case would attract international attention due to being televised. Araujo died just four years later at the age of 25 in a car accident in Miami, Florida. Her rape case would inspire the plotline for the 1988 motion picture ''[[The Accused (1988 film)|The Accused]]'' starring actress [[Jodie Foster]].
 
* [[Clifford Warren Ashley]], author, sailor, and artist, most famous for ''The Ashley Book of Knots'', an encyclopedic reference manual, copiously illustrated, on the tying of thousands of knots. Invented ''Ashley's stopper knot''
 
* [[Joseph "The Animal" Barboza]], mob hitman
* [[Merton J. Batchelder]], Marine Corps Brigadier general during [[World War II]], recipient of [[Navy Cross]]
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A board game set in the town called New Bedford was published in 2016. It focuses on building the town and the whaling industry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157413/new-bedford | title=New Bedford }}</ref>
 
In 2023, the movie ''[[Finestkind]]'' took place in New Bedford and [[Fairhaven, Massachusetts]]. The film was written and directed by [[Brian Helgeland]] and starring [[Ben Foster (actor)|Ben Foster]], [[Toby Wallace]], [[Jenna Ortega]] and [[Tommy Lee Jones]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/entertainment/2023/05/17/finestkind-new-bedford-movie-released-september-2023/70222800007/ | title=Finestkind}}</ref>
 
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