Northeast · Massachusetts · pop 650K
Boston, MA
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in MA, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,077 — covering estimated essentials here (about $2,100 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $223 left over.
There's plenty to do — roughly 39 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Expect summer highs near 82°F, winter lows around 23°F, and about 200 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Boston fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,854/mo
Typical rent
$2,470/mo
Home value ÷ income
8.2×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,980/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,470/mo
- Median home value
- $730,000
- Median household income
- $89,000
- Population
- 650,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.4%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.9%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 590
- Property crime rate
- 2,100
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 82°F
- Avg. winter low
- 23°F
- Sunny days / year
- 200
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈2/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈36/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈6/yr
- Annual rain
- 44"
- Annual snow
- 48"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+55
- Int'l airport
- ≈4 mi
- Walkability
- 83/100
- Disaster risk
- 38/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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