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This is the website for the City of Boston’s new Planning Department, which launched on July 1. The staff and many responsibilities of the Boston Planning & Development Agency have moved to the Planning Department of the City of Boston including planning & zoning, urban design, development review, and real estate divisions. Please excuse any misalignment you may see on our site as we transition to the City. Learn more

The Boston Neighborhood Change Explorer is a tool for people to visualize some of the ways that Boston and its neighborhoods have changed from 1950 to the present. Users can create custom geographic areas of interest based on census tracts or neighborhoods and move through time using interactive controls in order to explore topics like total population, age distribution, race & ethnicity, nativity, housing occupancy & tenure, educational attainment, and labor force participation.

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The Boston Neighborhood Change Explorer is a tool for people to visualize some of the ways that Boston and its neighborhoods have changed from 1950 to the present.