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Population
Population of Greater Boston
Migration Related Population Change
Housing and Permits
Annual permitting fell to the lowest it’s been in a decade in 2025.
Annual new housing additions since 2020.
Address Counts in Greater Boston Communities
Rough Year-to-Date Permit Estimates for Greater Boston
Prices
Median single-family home prices in Greater Boston remain elevated in 2026.
About 57 percent of municipalities had median condo sale prices of $500k or higher.
Households in Greater Boston need to earn at least $180,000 to afford a home in a low-priced town.
Affordability
Share of renters earning enough to afford a median-priced home varies by race.
Rents have increased across all neighborhoods since 2023, although increases have slowed in some places since 2025.
More than half of households headed by Black, Latino and multiracial renters were cost-burdened.
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