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The Boston Housing dataset, which is often used for regression analysis and predictive modeling tasks, doesn't typically have an official "subtitle." However, it's commonly referred to as the "Boston Housing dataset" or the "Boston Housing Price dataset" due to its focus on housing-related features and its primary target variable being the median value of owner-occupied homes in Boston suburbs.

Column Description

Columns: 1. CRIM: per capita crime rate by town (numeric) 2. ZN: proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. (numeric) 3. INDUS: proportion of non-retail business acres per town (numeric) 4. CHAS: Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) (categorical) 5. NOX: nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) (numeric) 6. RM: average number of rooms per dwelling (numeric) 7. AGE: proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 (numeric) 8. DIS: weighted distances to five Boston employment centres (numeric) 9. RAD: index of accessibility to radial highways (numeric) 10. TAX: full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 (numeric) 11. PTRATIO: pupil-teacher ratio by town (numeric) 12. B: 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of [people of African American descent] by town (numeric) 13. LSTAT: % lower status of the population (numeric) 14. MEDV: Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s (target variable) (numeric)

United States Median Existing Home Price: MA: Boston-Cambridge-Quincy data was reported at 491.400 USD th in Sep 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 495.900 USD th for Jun 2018. United States Median Existing Home Price: MA: Boston-Cambridge-Quincy data is updated quarterly, averaging 337.600 USD th from Mar 1989 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 111 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 495.900 USD th in Jun 2018 and a record low of 132.800 USD th in Mar 1991. United States Median Existing Home Price: MA: Boston-Cambridge-Quincy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Association of Realtors. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.EB007: Median Existing Home Price: by Metropolitan Area. Series Break/s represents unreported data from National Association of Realtors' prime source for that time period.

Explore Boston, MA rental market 2025. The average long-term prices $3,342 and short-term $4,567, with trends shaping housing in a city of 663,972 residents.

United States Median Home Sale Price: Single Family: Boston, MA data was reported at 580.000 USD th in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 556.000 USD th for Jun 2020. United States Median Home Sale Price: Single Family: Boston, MA data is updated monthly, averaging 430.000 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 580.000 USD th in Jul 2020 and a record low of 301.000 USD th in Feb 2012. United States Median Home Sale Price: Single Family: Boston, MA data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB056: Median Home Sale Price: by Metropolitan Areas.

Overview

This dataset is a cleaned and updated version of the classic Boston Housing Dataset, originally made available by the U.S. Census and later popularized in machine learning communities. It contains detailed information about housing prices in Boston suburbs, along with environmental, structural, and socio-economic indicators for each neighborhood.

The dataset is widely used as a benchmark for regression tasks and offers an excellent opportunity to explore linear modeling, feature engineering, multicollinearity analysis, bias mitigation, and more. 📚 Context

Originally published by Harrison and Rubinfeld in 1978, this dataset has been widely adopted in the machine learning and statistics communities. It contains 506 observations, each representing a town or neighborhood in the Boston metropolitan area.

However, some features in the dataset—particularly the B column which encodes race-based information—have become the subject of ethical scrutiny in recent years. Therefore, this version may have undergone data cleaning, feature selection, or modification to ensure it is more appropriate for modern and ethical ML applications. 📊 Features Feature Description CRIM Per capita crime rate by town ZN Proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq. ft. INDUS Proportion of non-retail business acres per town CHAS Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) NOX Nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) RM Average number of rooms per dwelling AGE Proportion of owner-occupied units built before 1940 DIS Weighted distance to five Boston employment centers RAD Index of accessibility to radial highways TAX Property tax rate per $10,000 PTRATIO Pupil-teacher ratio by town B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of Black residents LSTAT Percentage of lower-status population MEDV Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s (Target Variable)

🟡 Note: Some features (e.g., CHAS, B, or RAD) may have been removed or modified in this version depending on your ethical preprocessing or cleaning steps.

🎯 Target Variable

MEDV: Median value of owner-occupied homes (in $1000s). This is the value we aim to predict in regression tasks.

✅ Use Cases

This dataset is ideal for:

Predictive modeling using linear regression or advanced ML techniques

Feature engineering and feature selection

Studying the effects of urban and environmental variables on real estate prices

Analyzing multicollinearity and variable importance

Exploring ethical considerations in machine learning

⚖️ Ethical Considerations

The original dataset includes the feature B, which encodes racial information. While historically included for statistical analysis, modern ML best practices recommend caution when using such data to avoid unintended bias or discrimination.

In this version, you may choose to remove or retain the column depending on the intended use and audience.

Always consider the fairness, accountability, and transparency of your ML models.

📁 File Information

Filename: boston_housing_cleaned.csv

Records: 506 rows (observations)

Columns: 13 features + 1 target variable (depending on cleaning)

Missing Values: None (in original); NA if introduced during preprocessing

Source: Based on U.S. Census data (original), sourced from Kaggle and cleaned

📌 Tags

housing-prices · regression · real-estate · data-cleaning · ethical-ml · boston · exploratory-data-analysis · feature-engineering

United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: Condo/Co-op: Boston, MA data was reported at 482.000 USD th in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 479.000 USD th for Jun 2020. United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: Condo/Co-op: Boston, MA data is updated monthly, averaging 397.000 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 520.000 USD th in Mar 2020 and a record low of 290.000 USD th in Mar 2012. United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: Condo/Co-op: Boston, MA data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB057: Median Home Sale Price: by Metropolitan Areas: Seasonally Adjusted.

This dataset consolidates Rent prices in different towns and cities in Massachusetts, house prices and other relevant information. The main objective of the app is to prioritize towns in MA where house price and rent relationship is the most favorable for a potential investor.

Average Fair Market Rent Prices information was scraped from https://www.rentdata.org/states/massachusetts/ from 2006 to 2022. Massachusetts has the 3rd highest rent in the country out of 56 states and territories.

Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019. U.S. Census Bureau Population Division. May 21, 2020. The data is available for 351 towns in MA.

Home prices in MA were scraped from Boston Magazine web portal: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/single-family-home-price-chart-2021/. SOURCES: Boston neighborhood and town median home prices, sales volumes, and days on market provided by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (marealtor.com) and MLS Property Information Network (mlspin.com).

Massachusetts is the second wealthiest state in the United States of America, with a median household income of $77,378 (as of 2019). The income per household per town was retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_locations_by_per_capita_income.

Boston Area - Median Home Listing Price - Historical chart and current data through 2025.

United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: All Residential: Boston, MA data was reported at 519.000 USD th in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 507.000 USD th for Jun 2020. United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: All Residential: Boston, MA data is updated monthly, averaging 414.500 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 536.000 USD th in Apr 2020 and a record low of 321.000 USD th in Feb 2012. United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: All Residential: Boston, MA data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB057: Median Home Sale Price: by Metropolitan Areas: Seasonally Adjusted.

Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston The medv variable is the target variable.

Data description The Boston data frame has 506 rows and 14 columns.

This data frame contains the following columns:

crim per capita crime rate by town.

zn proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.

indus proportion of non-retail business acres per town.

chas Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise).

nox nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).

rm average number of rooms per dwelling.

age proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.

dis weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.

rad index of accessibility to radial highways.

tax full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.

ptratio pupil-teacher ratio by town.

black 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town.

lstat lower status of the population (percent).

medv median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.

Source Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. (1978) Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air. J. Environ. Economics and Management 5, 81–102.

Belsley D.A., Kuh, E. and Welsch, R.E. (1980) Regression Diagnostics. Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity. New York: Wiley.

Graph and download economic data for All-Transactions House Price Index for Massachusetts (MASTHPI) from Q1 1975 to Q3 2025 about MA, appraisers, HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

Context

This dataset is extracted from the The Boston Housing Dataset, and the extraction of the data is explained in Extract dataset/dataframe from an URL

Acknowledgements

A Dataset derived from information collected by the U.S. Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston Mass.

Column description:

This dataset contains information collected by the U.S Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston Mass. It was obtained from the StatLib archive (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston), and has been used extensively throughout the literature to benchmark algorithms. However, these comparisons were primarily done outside of Delve and are thus somewhat suspect. The dataset is small in size with only 506 cases.

The data was originally published by Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978.Variables in order: CRIM per capita crime rate by town ZN proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. INDUS proportion of non-retail business acres per town CHAS Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) NOX nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) RM average number of rooms per dwelling AGE proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 DIS weighted distances to five Boston employment centres RAD index of accessibility to radial highways TAX full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 PTRATIO pupil-teacher ratio by town B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town LSTAT % lower status of the population MEDV Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's`

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