Dataset
Boston Neighborhood Boundaries
Boston Neighborhood Boundaries represent a combination of zoning neighborhood boundaries, zip code boundaries and 2010 census tract boundaries. These boundaries are used in the broad sense for visualization purposes, research analysis and planning studies. However these boundaries are not official…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 7
- Keywords
- BPDA neighborhoods, boston neighborhoods, boundary, neighborhood, planning
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/bpda-neighborhood-boundaries
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 2425 | a45a9a2887b23efadfe9b0ccb6bf950583748ba7b012340981b9eccf03626041 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 1317938 | d69407f3a1db76af7fb2510102afd0ec77d97cf5f7e070943c6535513032b7df | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 352411 | 9bbda2d031f22c2f0e0895353f85cffccb5dbf1fd78a06fb9727a0afbc708753 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
name | text | |
acres | text | |
neighborhood_id | text | |
sqmiles | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:bpda-neighborhood-boundaries
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/bpda-neighborhood-boundaries
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/bpda-neighborhood-boundaries.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- bpda-neighborhood-boundaries
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |