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Small-bay brief · Boston · live county records

Boston's small-bay supply, measured across five counties.

A live public-record profile of smaller industrial buildings across Greater Boston: the measured formats, building vintages, county concentration, and qualified property records behind the market.

Market reading

Three ways to read Boston's measured supply

Read Boston, Cambridge, and Woburn against the wider five-county balance to see how the urban core and distributed industrial stock differ.

County concentration

36%

Middlesex County accounts for 12,427 of the tracked records in this definition.

Leading size band

43%

Under 10K SF is the largest band within the 28,266 records carrying usable building area.

Measured median vintage

1970

Calculated only from the 24,706 records carrying a plausible year built.

Building format

How the measured buildings break down

28,266 records carry a usable building area. Missing or implausible values remain in the market total but never enter this distribution or its median.

Under 10K SF43%12,222
10–25K SF28%8,051
25–50K SF14%4,090
50–100K SF9%2,679
100–200K SF1,224

Building-area coverage: 83% of the tracked universe.

Building vintage

When Boston's measured stock was built

Recorded years are grouped without filling gaps or assigning estimated construction dates.

Measured median

1970

Year-built coverage: 72%.

Before 196037%9,090
1960–197925%6,210
1980–199924%5,984
2000–20098%1,897
2010–present1,525

Market geography

Where the tracked inventory sits

Middlesex County is the largest share in SpanVor's 5-county Boston definition. County and focus-area counts come from the same reconciled predicate.

Named city cores / balance

Boston2,754

8%

Cambridge475

1%

Woburn881

3%

Rest of Boston30,057

88%

Named cores use exact case-insensitive matches, including audited source aliases. The balance is the reconciled remainder across all market counties.

Method / 01

What this page counts—and what it does not

Latest canonical record update in this view: July 15, 2026.

Canonical base

SpanVor's canonical property table, filtered to Massachusetts, 5 audited county GEOIDs, the small-bay industrial class, and non-duplicate map records.

Inventory, not availability

The total is a tracked public-record universe—not a count of buildings for sale, for lease, vacant, or currently marketed.

Measured fields only

Building area uses 100–199,999 SF and vintage uses plausible recorded years. Missing values are excluded, never filled.

Release gates

County totals must reconcile, size and vintage coverage must clear the publication floor, and all 12 property links must pass the stricter trailhead gate.

Field questions

Boston small-bay FAQ

How many small-bay industrial properties does SpanVor track in Boston?

SpanVor tracks 34,167 non-duplicate small-bay industrial property records across its 5-county Boston definition. The latest canonical record update in this view is July 15, 2026.

What is the median small-bay building size in the Boston dataset?

The median recorded building area is 12,017 SF, calculated from 28,266 records with a usable area from 100 through 199,999 SF.

Which counties are included in this Boston profile?

Middlesex, Norfolk, Essex, Plymouth, Suffolk counties. Every county count uses the same canonical predicate and must sum to the market total before values render.

Does this page show industrial properties currently for sale or lease?

No. This is a tracked property universe assembled from public property records. It does not represent current listings, availability, vacancy, rents, cap rates, or properties for sale or lease.

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