Kitchen addition cost in Boston: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Boston owners paid a median $5,098 for a kitchen addition: $19,902 below the U.S. median, the lowest of 4 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Boston owners paid
$5,098
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
- $25,000
- Rank, highest first
- 4 of 4
Boston: $5,098. The lowest of the big metros.
11 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 4.
- New York City$70,000
- Dallas$57,140
- Houston$57,140
- Boston$5,098
No published figure: Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Riverside, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC.
What it covers
Adding a kitchen or enlarging one, counted apart from remodeling.
The Census category is “Kitchen” within “Room Additions and Renovations”: what Boston-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
Ask every contractor to price the same scope, in writing. Does the quote change room area, layout, systems or finishes, and which changes are included?
Measure your job with the material calculator. Then put the quotes in the matching quote worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.