Dataset
Economic Indicators
**For Economic Indicators from January 2019 to present, please refer to the Planning Department Research Division's [Economic Indicators Dashboard](https://www.bostonplans.org/research/economic-indicators-dashboard). This interactive dashboard visualizes regularly updated, current data on the…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Planning Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 19
- Keywords
- bra, economics, growth, hubhacks, indicators, legacy portal
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/economic-indicators-legacy-portal
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 8249 | acbf5866c622f0f16390e3566eeb40be2bd8235137ad2db8d39747e54b5b39d5 | source |
| XLSX | referenced | 9484 | 85275d33ea3832b0e39c045382575ceecee1b56f1d06e624b8ec23de003fbbb5 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Year | text | |
Month | text | |
logan_passengers | text | |
logan_intl_flights | text | |
hotel_occup_rate | text | |
hotel_avg_daily_rate | text | |
total_jobs | text | |
unemp_rate | text | |
labor_force_part_rate | text | |
pipeline_unit | text | |
pipeline_total_dev_cost | text | |
pipeline_sqft | text | |
pipeline_const_jobs | text | |
foreclosure_pet | text | |
foreclosure_deeds | text | |
med_housing_price | text | |
housing_sales_vol | text | |
new_housing_const_permits | text | |
new-affordable_housing_permits | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:economic-indicators-legacy-portal
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/economic-indicators-legacy-portal
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/economic-indicators-legacy-portal.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- economic-indicators-legacy-portal
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |