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Massachusetts county death feed: new obituaries in every county

One subscription. Every county in Massachusetts. See new obituaries as they're published, the relatives named in them, and possible property matches where available. That gives investors, agents, trust managers, skip tracers and proptech teams an earlier start on their research. Relatives named in an obituary are not a legal determination of heirs. $249 a month per state after a 5-day free trial. Pull all counties or filter to a single county with county_slug.

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Massachusetts Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible Daily County Intelligence notice universe: not official vital statistics.

1,070

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

4,195

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

427

Active sources monitored (30 days)

18

Counties with recent activity

2 hours ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 2 hours ago

Massachusetts Death Data by County

18 counties with recent activity

Explore recent death and obituary activity detected across supported counties. Search the coverage table below to see where eligible Daily County Intelligence records have been detected during the last 30 days.

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Middlesex County896104TodayActive
Essex County51047TodayActive
Plymouth County42030YesterdayActive
Worcester County41451TodayActive
Norfolk County39747TodayActive
Suffolk County39558YesterdayActive
Bristol County37938YesterdayActive
Hampden County25238YesterdayActive
Berkshire County20015TodayActive
Barnstable County17416YesterdayActive
Hampshire County10213YesterdayActive
Franklin County307YesterdayActive
Gloucester County2012 days agoActive
Madison County22Nov 2Active
Indian River County11Nov 2Active

Recent Deaths Detected Across Massachusetts

Counts of death and obituary records detected by ObituaryMonitor, not official state mortality totals.

Last 7 days

1,070

Previous 7 days: 1,073 · 0% vs prior period

Last 30 days

4,195

Previous 30 days: 4,879 · -14% vs prior period

These figures represent records detected by ObituaryMonitor and should not be interpreted as official state mortality statistics.

What Massachusetts Death & Obituary Records Can Include

Field availability across recent eligible Massachusetts Daily County Intelligence records (trailing 30 days).

Name

100%

of recent Massachusetts records

Date of death

100%

of recent Massachusetts records

City / location

98.8%

of recent Massachusetts records

County

100%

of recent Massachusetts records

Source URL

100%

of recent Massachusetts records

Funeral home / publisher

100%

of recent Massachusetts records

Notice text read

91.4%

of recent Massachusetts records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects Massachusetts Death & Obituary Data

Cities with recent eligible activity (not a complete list of every community).

Fall River145Springfield125Wareham112Falmouth106Quincy106Peabody88Arlington86Ayer84Lynn80Boston76Haverhill63Taunton56

Massachusetts Funeral Homes & Obituary Sources

ObituaryMonitor monitors funeral homes and obituary sources across Massachusetts to detect newly published death and obituary information. Eligible records become available through Daily County Intelligence. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

Browse Massachusetts Funeral Homes →

How Massachusetts Daily County Intelligence Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors 17,565+ funeral-home and newspaper sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible Massachusetts records become available through Daily County Intelligence.
  5. Customers receive new records through API, CSV, or portal delivery.

Data is continuously collected from monitored sources, not sold as a static list.

Access Massachusetts Death Data Your Way

API

Receive eligible Massachusetts death and obituary records programmatically in JSON.

Explore the Daily County Intelligence →

CSV

Download or export records for operational workflows and CRM import.

Web Portal

Review and filter new Massachusetts records through the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Who Uses Massachusetts Death Data?

Real Estate Investors

Monitor newly detected deaths across every county in Massachusetts for potential probate or inherited-property research.

Probate & Legal Services

Identify recent deaths within geographic service areas and support downstream estate workflows.

Financial Institutions

Use death signals as an additional input in deceased-customer and risk-monitoring processes. Financial institutions monitoring

Data & Software Companies

Integrate normalized death and obituary data into software products and operational systems.

Research / Operations

Monitor county-level death events without manually checking individual obituary websites.

Example Massachusetts Death Data API Record

Illustrative sample record, not an actual person.

{
  "id": "fh-sample",
  "full_name": "Sample Person",
  "first_name": "Sample",
  "last_name": "Person",
  "date_of_death": "2026-08-08",
  "state": "MA",
  "county": "Suffolk",
  "county_slug": "suffolk-county-ma",
  "city": "Boston",
  "source_type": "funeral_home",
  "obituary_url": "https://example.com/sample",
  "funeral_home_name": "Example Funeral Home",
  "indexed_at": "2026-08-08T14:22:00.000Z",
  "survivors_status": "ok"
}

This example shows the structure of an eligible Daily County Intelligence record. Field names follow the public Daily County Intelligence notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

Massachusetts Death Data & Daily County Intelligence FAQ

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