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Rack market

E. Boston, MA

#232 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 54 Gasoline & diesel
terminals
1
pipeline systems delivering
0
refineries confirmed
0
more per research or by route
0
people in the trade area
974,056
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
921,324
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
141,079

Terminals in this market

The racks that post prices in this market. Pipelines = systems with a tariff delivery point at the terminal.
Terminal TCN Location Delivered by
Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals LP - East Boston T-04-MA-1154 East Boston, MA no pipeline tariff on file

Pipelines delivering to this market

No pipeline tariff delivers to a terminal in this market on file: it is supplied by truck, rail or water, or the tariff has not been read yet.

Refineries that can supply this market

Running refineries that can reach a terminal here by published route, including across connecting carriers, confirmed links first. 0 are confirmed or named in a tariff; 0 are per research; 0 are inferred because the refinery shares a city with a tariff origin. Capacity, contracts and who actually ships are not known from tariffs.

No refinery has a published pipeline route here on file.

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
974,056
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#114
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
921,324
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
141,079
counties wholly in this market
0
counties shared with other markets
9
An estimate of who lifts here. Each county goes to its nearest rack market with terminals; a market within 1.5 times that distance (or 25 miles more) shares it, up to 4 markets, weighted toward the closer one and the one with more terminals. Distances are straight-line from the county’s centre. Shares of a county always add to 100%, so the people counted across all markets add back to the U.S. total.
County State Share here People counted here Gasoline gal/day Diesel gal/day County population Miles
Middlesex County MA 20% 330,155 306,608 47,297 1,669,979 20
Suffolk County MA 21% 164,001 94,037 13,107 791,891 4
Essex County MA 20% 163,347 155,005 24,650 826,653 20
Norfolk County MA 14% 107,190 120,433 19,496 739,749 17
Worcester County MA 10% 92,493 100,172 17,992 888,502 47
Plymouth County MA 14% 74,259 83,354 10,947 546,829 31
Barnstable County MA 14% 31,551 48,455 5,241 233,539 64
Cheshire County NH 12% 9,298 11,226 2,143 78,269 73
Nantucket County MA 12% 1,795 2,077 214 14,758 89

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

How good is it? Checked in October 2026 against the county retail sales Iowa and California publish: for gasoline, about 3–5% of gallons landed in the wrong rack market and a typical market was within 5–6%. For diesel, 14–21% landed in the wrong market and a typical market was 30–45% off, with truck-stop corridors such as Bakersfield and Stockton under-counted. Treat gasoline as a working estimate and diesel as a rough guide.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

No published pipeline rate into a terminal here is on file yet. Markets supplied by truck, rail or water have no tariff to read.

Supply resilience

pipeline supply
No pipeline
pipeline systems delivering
0
terminals on two or more pipelines
0
terminals with no pipeline tariff
1

No pipeline tariff delivers here on file: the market depends on truck, rail or water, or its tariff has not been read.

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Chelsea, MA 1 2 —
Revere, MA 1 2 —
Everett, MA 2 1 —
Boston, MA 3 0 —
Braintree, MA 10 3 —
Providence, RI 45 6 —
Newington, NH 51 2 —

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.