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The S&P Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index has been on an upward trend in the past years. The index measures changes in the prices of existing single-family homes. The index value was equal to 100 as of January 2000, so if the index value is equal to 130 in a given month, for example, it means that the house prices have increased by 30 percent since 2000. The value of the S&P Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index amounted to nearly ****** in August 2025. That was above the national average.

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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.

1. crim: Per capita crime rate by town.
2. zn: Proportion of large residential lots (over 25,000 sq. ft.).
3. indus: Proportion of non-retail business acres per town.
4. Chas: Binary variable indicating if the property is near Charles River (1 for yes, 0 for no).
5. nox: Concentration of nitrogen oxides in the air.
6. rm: Average number of rooms per dwelling.
7. age: Proportion of old owner-occupied units built before 1940.
8. dis: Weighted distances to Boston employment centers.
9. rad: Index of accessibility to radial highways.
10. tax: Property tax rate per $10,000.

These features provide valuable information about the characteristics of neighborhoods that can influence housing prices.

About Dataset

All the following text is copied directly from the original dataset used: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/fedesoriano/the-boston-houseprice-data
The only difference is that features 12 and 13 have been removed for simplicity. See original link for a version with those features in place.

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Context

The Boston house-price data of Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. 'Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978.

Attribute Information

Input features in order: 1) CRIM: per capita crime rate by town
2) ZN: proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.
3) INDUS: proportion of non-retail business acres per town
4) CHAS: Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
5) NOX: nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) [parts/10M]
6) RM: average number of rooms per dwelling
7) AGE: proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
8) DIS: weighted distances to five Boston employment centres
9) RAD: index of accessibility to radial highways
10) TAX: full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 [$/10k]
11) PTRATIO: pupil-teacher ratio by town
[Original features 12 and 13 have been deliberately removed from this version of the dataset]

Output variable:
1) MEDV: Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's [k$]

Source

StatLib - Carnegie Mellon University

Relevant Papers

Harrison, David & Rubinfeld, Daniel. (1978). Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 5. 81-102. 10.1016/0095-0696(78)90006-2. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Rubinfeld/publication/4974606_Hedonic_housing_prices_and_the_demand_for_clean_air/links/5c38ce85458515a4c71e3a64/Hedonic-housing-prices-and-the-demand-for-clean-air.pdf

Belsley, David A. & Kuh, Edwin. & Welsch, Roy E. (1980). Regression diagnostics: identifying influential data and sources of collinearity. New York: Wiley https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Regression+Diagnostics%3A+Identifying+Influential+Data+and+Sources+of+Collinearity-p-9780471691174

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Dataset

This dataset was created by Fazela Amjad

Contents

The Boston housing dataset is a multivariate dataset containing information about housing prices in Boston. The dataset is used to demonstrate the proposed methods for visualizing feature importance in black box models.

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The dataset consists of various features (CRIM, ZN, INDUS, etc.) related to a housing market dataset, likely for Boston or a similar dataset. The features represent various characteristics about the neighborhoods and properties, and the target variable is typically related to property prices or a similar metric. - The dataset provides various socio-economic and property features such as crime rate (CRIM), property zoning (ZN), air quality (NOX), and educational infrastructure (PTRATIO), as well as property values (MEDV). - The dataset spans a wide range of values across different features, indicating a diverse set of neighborhoods and properties with varying socio-economic characteristics. - The distribution of values across each feature reflects different neighborhoods, their proximity to industrial areas, quality of life indicators (air quality, school ratios), and housing prices.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Kevin Nguyen

Released under CC0: Public Domain

Contents

The Boston Housing dataset contains information about housing prices in the suburbs of Boston, 1970.

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