Research Publications

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.

• Industry Profiles 2025: Retail, Food Services, and Other Services Industry
• Industry Profiles 2025: Culture, Sports, and Tourism Industry
• Industry Profiles 2025: Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Industry
• Industry Profiles 2025: Educational Services Industry
• Industry Profiles 2025: Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry
• Industry Profiles 2025: Professional, Technical, and Scientific Services Industry
• Industry Profiles 2025: Industrial Industry

This presentation provides an up-to-date snapshot of current land use and examines key shifts in residential, commercial, industrial, mixed-use, and tax-exempt land throughout the city's neighborhoods from 2002 to 2025. View the presentation by clicking on the title or thumbnail image. View our interactive land use and land value explorer tool here.

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

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.

Boston's Economy 2024 covers trends in employment, wages, housing prices, and real estate.

This presentation explores Boston's home purchase mortgage environment to understand the trends and changes in mortgage applicant composition by income and race/ethnicity from 2007 to 2022, using HMDA data from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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.

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.

This presentation explores spatial patterns and temporal trends in land use and assesses land values by analyzing the City of Boston's property assessment data. A summarizing infographic is available here.

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