Home security system cost in Boston: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Boston owners paid a median $500 for a home security system: $71 above the U.S. median, tied for second-highest of 14 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Boston owners paid
$500
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$161: at 90% confidence the Boston median lies between $339 and $661.
How Boston compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $429
- Rank, highest first
- Tied at 2 of 14
Boston: $500. The big-metro medians run from $334 to $557.
1 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 14.
- Houston$557
- Boston$500
- Dallas$500
- Los Angeles$500
- Miami$500
- San Francisco$500
- Seattle$500
- Philadelphia$464
- Riverside$464
- Atlanta$450
- Washington DC$429
- Detroit$400
- Phoenix$400
- Chicago$334
No published figure: New York City.
What it covers
Adding or replacing a home security system: the equipment and its installation.
The Census category is “Security system” within “Interior Additions and Replacements”: 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 $500, ask what is in it that the typical job is not. Are equipment, installation and any ongoing service separately identified?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.