Comprehensive demographic dataset for Dorchester, Boston, MA, US including population statistics, household income, housing units, education levels, employment data, and transportation with year-over-year changes.

Please note this page provides neighborhood demographic data using 2010 Census tracts. For updated Neighborhood Demographics using 2020 Census tracts consistently across historical years, please refer to the Planning Department Research Division's Exploring Neighborhood Change Tool. The tool visualizes demographic, economic, and housing data for Boston's tracts and neighborhoods from 1950 to 2025 (with projections to 2035) using the most up-to-date 2020 Census tract-based Neighborhood boundaries.

Boston is a city defined by the unique character of its many neighborhoods. The historical tables created by the BPDA Research Division from U.S. Census Decennial data describe demographic changes in Boston’s neighborhoods from 1950 through 2010 using consistent tract-based geographies. For more analysis of these data, please see Historical Trends in Boston's Neighborhoods. The most recent available neighborhood demographic data come from the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS tables also present demographic data for Census-tract approximations of Boston’s neighborhoods. For pdf versions of the data presented here plus earlier versions of the analysis, please see Boston in Context.

Demographics, population, housing, income, education, schools, and geography for ZIP Code 02121 (Dorchester, MA). Interactive charts load automatically as you scroll for improved performance.

Historical Dataset of Woodrow Wilson Middle School is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (1989-2009),Total Classroom Teachers Trends Over Years (2004-2009),Distribution of Students By Grade Trends,Student-Teacher Ratio Comparison Over Years (2004-2009),Asian Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1989-2009),Hispanic Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1989-2009),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1989-2009),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1989-2009),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (1989-2009),Free Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (1999-2009),Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (1999-2009)

Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. This is a dataset containing records from the new crime incident report system, which includes a reduced set of fields focused on capturing the type of incident as well as when and where it occurred. Records in the new system begin in June of 2015.

The Analyze Boston Data Exports posted now are the updated incident data from the Mark43 RMS Database which launched in September of 2019 and is complete through present with the exclusion of data that falls under MGL ch.41 s.98f. The 2019 data that was originally posted contained combined exports from the Intergraph RMS and the Mark43 RMS during 2019 but the Extract/Transfer/Load process was not updated during the transition.

Historical Dataset of Wm E Endicott Elementary School is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (1988-2023),Distribution of Students By Grade Trends,Asian Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1988-1999),Hispanic Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1988-2023),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1988-2023),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1988-2023),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (1988-2023),Free Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (1999-2001),Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (1999-2001)

Historical Dataset of Emily A Fifield Elementary School is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (1991-2011),Total Classroom Teachers Trends Over Years (2004-2011),Distribution of Students By Grade Trends,Student-Teacher Ratio Comparison Over Years (2004-2011),Asian Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1991-2011),Hispanic Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1991-2011),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1991-2011),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1988-2011),Two or More Races Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2009-2011),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (1991-2011),Free Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (1999-2011),Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (1999-2011),Reading and Language Arts Proficiency Comparison Over Years (2010-2011),Math Proficiency Comparison Over Years (2010-2011),Overall School Rank Trends Over Years (2010-2011)

November 2025