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Industry Profiles: Finance Insurance and Real Estate

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Industry Profiles

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Document Date:
06/27/2025
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Industry Profiles: Retail

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06/17/2025
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Industry Profiles 2025

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Income & Poverty, Industry Profiles, Labor Market, Real Estate & Development

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Document Date:
06/17/2025
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This series profiles Boston's 7 top industries including: Retail, Educational Services, Healthcare, Culture Sports and Tourism, Finance Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE), Industrial, and Professional Services. Each profile includes data on employment, earnings, establishments, associated real estate, and more.












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Boston's Economy 2025

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06/02/2025
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Boston's Economy 2025 covers trends in employment, wages, mobility, travel, consumer spending, housing prices, and real estate.

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Unpacking Boston's FY2024 NIH Funding

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05/20/2025
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This report provides an overview of NIH funding awarded to Boston researchers in fiscal year 2024, highlighting the City’s continued leadership in biomedical research and innovation. Boston received nearly $2.5 billion across 4,194 grants, the second-highest total nationwide. The majority of this funding supported world-renowned institutions such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital, reflecting the strength of Boston’s hospitals, universities, and life sciences sector in advancing groundbreaking medical research.

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Unpacking Boston's FY2023 NIH Funding

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Industry Profiles

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05/16/2024
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This report provides an in-depth analysis of the NIH funding sent to Boston researchers in fiscal year 2023, demonstrating the City's significant role as a leader in medical research. It explores how Boston's renowned hospitals, top universities, and thriving life sciences industry lead the nation in NIH funding, driving groundbreaking advancements in science and medicine, and solidifying the City's reputation as a global hub of innovation in the biomedical field.

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Business Establishments in Boston: Detailed Industry Trends

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Industry Profiles, Labor Market, Real Estate & Development

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11/27/2023
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This presentation explores detailed industry trends in Boston's business establishments, tracking numbers of employer and non-employer businesses in particular sectors over time by size and neighborhood while also analyzing broader shifts in business dynamics coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Business Establishments in Boston: Citywide Trends

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Industry Profiles, Labor Market, Real Estate & Development

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11/27/2023
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This presentation explores citywide trends in business establishments in Boston, providing some pre-pandemic background on business dynamics by firm age and size and giving an overview of the effects of COVID-19 on businesses by neighborhood, size, and industry.

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Boston's Economy 2023

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Income & Poverty, Industry Profiles, Labor Market, Real Estate & Development

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05/12/2023
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Boston's Economy 2023 covers trends in employment, wages, housing prices, and real estate.

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Transportation in Boston

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12/10/2020
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The Transportation in Boston report identifies sources for transportation data by mode, and documents major trends in active transportation, public transportation, automobile travel, and freight. It covers ridership and utilization, costs and investments, and future developments. This report serves as a pre-COVID-19 baseline for analysis going forward.

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