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The city of ‘Allston’ is located in Massachusetts, USA and includes the area that is covered by the zip code 02134. For the past many years, Allston is administered by the city of Brighton and that is why they are often called as "Allston-Brighton". In fact a big portion of the area's population consists of students, mostly from Boston University, Boston College, Harvard University and Emerson College.

Currently the total population of Allston is somewhere around 21,485 denizens. A decline of 1.42% has been noticed from the census that was held in the year 2000.

The median home cost is $317,000. Here also a decline of 0.97% has been seen since last year. The cost of living is 9.81% higher as compared to the national average. The median age is 29.2 years.

76.45% of residents list their status as single

The largest religious affiliation is Catholic (that forms 44.96% of the total population), followed by Protestant (4.77% of the entire population), unspecified Christians (4.62%), Jewish (3.58%of the total population), Baptist (2.10%) and Islamic (1.97%).

Allston is situated near two very famous universities. A big portion of the campus of Harvard University is located in the lower part of the city of Allston. This portion also includes Harvard Business School and Harvard Stadium.

Harvard also has a lot of area of other land in lower Allston. According to various sources it has been said that Harvard is planning to develop much of this area as an academic campus. Boston University lies along Commonwealth Avenue in the eastern side.

Harvard Stadium is the most famous sporting arena of the city.