Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 14460 · 42.52, -71.02

6 findings fired for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH this run, against a typical home value of $725,639 in September 2026 and covered employment of 2,636,015 in 2026 Q1.

Jobs, OEWS
2,703,890
as of May 2025
  • 97th pct · 10th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500

Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.

Jobs, county rollup
2,636,015
as of 2026 Q1

An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.

Typical home value
$725,639
as of 2026-09
  • 96th pct · 16th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707

Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Typical rent
$2,987
as of 2026-09
  • 98th pct · 8th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504

Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.

Price-to-rent
20.2years of rent
as of 2026-09
  • 77th pct · 87th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9

typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.

Home value, 1-yr
2.1%
as of 2026-09
  • 51st pct · 186th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%

Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.

A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.

Occupation mix #

currentas of May 2025retrieved 2026-10-19

The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.

Top 30 detailed occupations by employment, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
31-1120Home Health and Personal Care Aides72,420$42,2400.97
11-1021General and Operations Managers70,950$163,8001.16
29-1141Registered Nurses64,240$121,8201.09
41-2031Retail Salespersons64,150$40,3200.95
35-3023Fast Food and Counter Workers60,130$36,2300.90
37-2011Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners43,160$45,9001.12
41-2011Cashiers42,920$37,2600.80
15-1252Software Developers42,310$162,4401.44
35-3031Waiters and Waitresses41,570$45,3401.05
43-4051Customer Service Representatives37,780$53,7400.84
13-2011Accountants and Auditors37,150$108,6601.47
53-7065Stockers and Order Fillers35,770$40,6200.73
43-9061Office Clerks, General34,480$52,8800.80
13-1161Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists32,310$109,8402.07
43-6014Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive28,540$59,3900.96
13-1111Management Analysts26,450$149,6001.69
25-9045Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary26,350$44,0801.07
31-1131Nursing Assistants26,130$48,7301.04
43-1011First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers25,630$81,5301.03
41-3091Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel25,310$99,3701.16
53-7062Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand24,030$46,5000.47
35-2014Cooks, Restaurant22,900$45,8800.93
13-1071Human Resources Specialists21,770$96,8401.37
11-3031Financial Managers21,650$221,8001.48
43-3031Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks21,170$61,7800.89
49-9071Maintenance and Repair Workers, General21,030$60,4800.79
25-2031Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education20,600$92,4301.11
11-3021Computer and Information Systems Managers20,530$220,3001.76
25-2021Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education20,340$91,5900.84
53-3032Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers20,090$64,4200.56
All 22 SOC major groups, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
43-0000Office and Administrative Support Occupations265,830$59,5800.86
11-0000Management Occupations254,700$183,0901.32
13-0000Business and Financial Operations Occupations242,960$114,1701.33
35-0000Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations216,600$42,8300.91
41-0000Sales and Related Occupations214,430$66,7600.92
29-0000Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations184,840$124,5201.08
25-0000Educational Instruction and Library Occupations180,160$85,3601.14
53-0000Transportation and Material Moving Occupations163,380$53,3400.69
31-0000Healthcare Support Occupations130,530$47,1800.95
15-0000Computer and Mathematical Occupations128,180$136,1701.40
51-0000Production Occupations95,730$56,7700.64
47-0000Construction and Extraction Occupations93,170$82,9600.83
37-0000Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations76,370$48,2600.97
49-0000Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations76,150$72,7600.72
19-0000Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations66,650$116,9502.60
39-0000Personal Care and Service Occupations66,020$48,0901.17
17-0000Architecture and Engineering Occupations65,560$118,9201.44
33-0000Protective Service Occupations60,420$69,9900.92
21-0000Community and Social Service Occupations52,790$71,5901.14
27-0000Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations38,240$87,2001.07
23-0000Legal Occupations29,540$176,6601.30
45-0000Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations1,640$47,2200.22

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.

Housing #

currentas of 2026-09retrieved 2026-10-19

The typical home in the Boston, MA metro was worth $725,639 in September 2026.

25 months to September 2026. Rent: $2,987 in September 2026.

Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME, not by a shared code: Zillow titles metros short ("Austin, TX") where the Census titles them long. Both series are Zillow's own smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.

Employment, rolled up from member counties #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-19

About 2,636,015 covered jobs across the 7 member counties BLS published.

  • jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 7 of 7 member counties BLS publishes.
  • 2,636,015 = 319,282 + 880,696 + 339,212 + 192,096 + 152,938 + 45,566 + 706,225
The 7 counties the place manifest assigns to CBSA 14460.
CountyFIPS
Essex County, MA25009
Middlesex County, MA25017
Norfolk County, MA25021
Plymouth County, MA25023
Rockingham County, NH33015
Strafford County, NH33017
Suffolk County, MA25025

There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.

National indicator context #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.

The national indicator set, filtered by lens only.
IndicatorLatestUnitStatus
Mississippi River at Memphis, stagenot publishedftno data
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stagenot publishedftno data
Ohio River at Louisville, stage17.95ftok
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stagenot publishedftno data
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases)5,170.00ft³/sok
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full72.20%ok
Laredo truck crossings, monthly258,700.00trucksok
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual10,513,167.00TEUwatch
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports7.00shipsok
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate7,848.00$ per 40 ft boxwatch
US diesel retail pricenot published$ per gallonno data
WTI crude oil, spot101.91$ per barrelwatch
30-year fixed mortgage rate7.40%watch
Housing starts, annual rate1,275.00thousands of unitsok
Building permits, annual rate1,403.00thousands of unitsok
Case-Shiller US home price index337.31index, Jan 2000 = 100ok
Unemployment rate4.20%ok
US goods and services trade balance, monthly-105,572.00$ millionsok
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly652,115.00$ millionsok

lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.

What changed #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH: 6 findings, 6 noted

  1. noteBoston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH's typical asking rent fell 0.6% from $3,005 in August 2026 to $2,987 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.

    Period 2026-09.
    Show the arithmetic
    • -0.6% = (2987.4296568348204 - 3005.3235863482564) / 3005.3235863482564 × 100
    • 2987.4296568348204 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
    • 3005.3235863482564 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08

  2. noteBoston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH's typical asking rent of $2,987 ranks 8th of 382 US metro areas, against a median of $1,504.

    Period 2026-09.
    Show the arithmetic
    • 98 on the 0-to-100 scale across 382 US metro areas that published rent.latest

    position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

  3. noteBoston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH's typical home value of $725,639 ranks 16th of 379 US metro areas, against a median of $305,707.

    Period 2026-09.
    Show the arithmetic
    • 96 on the 0-to-100 scale across 379 US metro areas that published home.latest

    position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

  4. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

  5. noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

The full Boston, MA brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.

Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.

Sources #

  • publishedOccupational Employment and Wage StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    MSA 14460, all occupations · period May 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 7 of 7 member counties BLS publishes. 2,636,015 = 319,282 + 880,696 + 339,212 + 192,096 + 152,938 + 45,566 + 706,225
  • publishedZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv · period 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • publishedZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv · period 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
  • estimateZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns

Citations

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. series MSA 14460, all occupations. period May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. https://www.bls.gov/cew/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 7 of 7 member counties BLS publishes. 2,636,015 = 319,282 + 880,696 + 339,212 + 192,096 + 152,938 + 45,566 + 706,225.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). series Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. period 2026-09. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). series Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. period 2026-09. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zori/Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.

What these numbers are not

  • There is no metro market report: MarketReport describes a county or a state, and BLS QCEW's own metro rows follow each year's delineation, so they are not used here. The metro page shows Zillow's own metro rows and a county-rollup employment estimate with its arithmetic instead.
  • Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME (Zillow titles metros short, "Austin, TX", where the Census titles them long), not by a shared code. RegionID 394404.
  • Metro employment is an ESTIMATE: the sum of the member counties BLS did publish, not BLS QCEW's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. Withheld counties are named and excluded, never zeroed.
  • The indicator block is the NATIONAL set, filtered only by lens. None of these series is keyed to this place: they are United States, gauge, single-state or port series and they are shown as context, not as this place's own readings.

Page assembled 2026-10-19T17:32:56.719Z. Place identity tables pulled 2026-10-01.