Flood damage repair cost in Boston: 2023 spending
Boston owners paid a median $22,000 for flood work, tied for the highest of 3 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Boston owners paid
$22,000
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
How Boston compares
- U.S. median, same work
- Not published
- Rank, highest first
- Tied at 1 of 3
Boston: $22,000. The highest of the big metros.
12 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 3.
- Boston$22,000
- Phoenix$22,000
- San Francisco$14,000
No published figure: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Riverside, Seattle, Washington DC.
What it covers
Repairs after flood damage, from drying out a room to replacing floors and walls.
The Census category is “Flood” within “Disaster Repairs”: what Boston-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
If your quote is well above $22,000, ask what is in it that the typical job is not. What damage is documented and which specialist work is outside the written quote?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.