As of 2026, 0 of the 324 active building permits issued near the center of Dorchester in the last 12 months are major or high-impact.
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Compared to the average Boston neighborhood.
0 major or high-impact building permits were issued near the center of Dorchester in the last 12 months and are still active. Search an address above to see what's planned on a specific block.
Dorchester has 324 building permits filed in the last 12 months, 0 of them high-impact. The map above shows where.
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Search DorchesterFigures cover an approximate half-mile area around the center of Dorchester (the crime and permit datasets aren't tagged by neighborhood, so we use a consistent radius), over the last 12 months, compared against the average Boston neighborhood. Source: City of Boston open data (Analyze Boston). Open data updates on a delay, so the most recent records may be incomplete. For general information only — not legal, financial, or real-estate advice.
Circle shows roughly a half-mile around the center of Dorchester. Search an address for block-level detail.