Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and three-, two- and one-family zoning in Dorchester, from Columbia Point to Ashmont and Fields Corner.
Search this neighborhoodDorchester is Boston's largest and most populous neighborhood, settled in 1630 and annexed to Boston in 1870. It is made up of many smaller districts: Savin Hill, Fields Corner, Uphams Corner, Codman Square, Ashmont and Peabody Square, Lower Mills along the Neponset River, and Columbia Point on the harbor. The housing is mostly triple-deckers, two-family houses and single-family homes.
The University of Massachusetts Boston and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum sit on Columbia Point. Cedar Grove Cemetery, the Neponset River Reservation, Pope John Paul II Park and Dorchester Park are among its largest open spaces. The Red Line's Ashmont branch stops at Savin Hill, Fields Corner, Shawmut and Ashmont, and Fairmount Line commuter rail stops at Uphams Corner and other stations. Because Dorchester is a single, very large neighborhood of about 125,000 residents, the crime, permit and crash figures on its CivicScout pages cover the half mile around the neighborhood’s center point, not all of Dorchester; search an address for the half mile around that address.
CivicScout tracks Boston Police reported incidents, Vision Zero traffic crash records, and open building and property violation cases within a half mile of any searched address in Dorchester. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity ranges from renovation of triple-deckers and two-family houses to larger redevelopment around Columbia Point, Fields Corner and Uphams Corner.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →The zoning layer shows about 28 percent of Dorchester as Three-Family Residential, 21 percent as Two-Family and 11 percent as One-Family, with commercial districts along Dorchester Avenue and Washington Street.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for Dorchester addresses surface Inspectional Services building permits, open 311 requests, food establishment inspections, and the applicable Boston zoning subdistrict.
Search an address →Search an address in Dorchester to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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