Boston parking tickets map
Boston is well known for its hefty parking tickets. Between July 2020 and end of June 2021, the City of Boston made over $50m from parking tickets according to the city data.
SpotAngels – the ‘Waze for Parking’ app that helps drivers find street parking and avoid tickets – analyzed this data to show you the best and worst spots and neighborhoods for parking tickets in Boston.
It used the same data to show you the riskiest times to get a ticket for any given spot in the SpotAngels app.
Between July 2020 and end of June 2021, there were 909,097 parking tickets issued in the City of Boston totaling over $50m in revenue. While that is a huge number, it is lower than previous years because the city stopped enforcing some parking rules at the beginning of the pandemic. As an example, in 2018 the city collected over $60m.
A parking ticket cost Boston citizens on average $55.
The most common violation was ‘METER FEE UNPAID’.
For the below study, SpotAngels focused on a subset of 500,922 parking tickets exclusively linked to parking and not driving a vehicle and that have accurate geographic coordinates in Boston neighborhoods covered by the SpotAngels parking map – see the Methodology Section below for the data cleaning process and the list of parking violation codes used.
With over 12 parking tickets per 100 spots – North End, West End and Leather District are the neighborhoods where you’re most likely to get a parking ticket.
With less than 6 parking tickets per 100 spots – Mission Hill, Roxbury and Dorchester are where you’re less likely to get a parking ticket.
Neighborhood | # of parking tickets | $ parking tickets | # parking spots with restrictions | Ratio tickets per 100 spots |
Back Bay | 118,626 | $ 6,310,230 | 1,803,165 | 6.6 |
Downtown | 78,879 | $ 5,158,620 | 727,853 | 10.8 |
South End | 68,755 | $ 3,533,340 | 933,762 | 7.4 |
South Boston | 52,751 | $ 3,062,240 | 595,735 | 8.9 |
Beacon Hill | 41,280 | $ 2,489,315 | 391,107 | 10.6 |
Fenway | 37,857 | $ 1,868,695 | 461,933 | 8.2 |
North End | 27,978 | $ 1,698,770 | 230,957 | 12.1 |
Mission Hill | 17,836 | $ 1,024,240 | 300,243 | 5.9 |
Chinatown | 12,605 | $ 825,280 | 117,968 | 10.7 |
South Boston Waterfront | 12,352 | $ 666,485 | 144,373 | 8.6 |
West End | 7,155 | $ 549,235 | 52,924 | 13.5 |
Leather District | 7,577 | $ 426,605 | 57,700 | 13.1 |
Roxbury | 5,658 | $ 331,900 | 96,879 | 5.8 |
Dorchester | 6,323 | $ 308,305 | 117,707 | 5.4 |
Bay Village | 2,822 | $ 155,210 | 24,955 | 11.3 |
Longwood | 2,468 | $ 144,150 | 35,020 | 7.0 |
These are the 10 parking spots with the most parking tickets in the neighborhoods included in the study. Each spot gets more than 1 parking ticket per day, be extra careful when you park there!
# of parking tickets | Address | Neighborhood | Most common parking violations |
1345 | 201 NEWBURY ST, Boston | Back Bay | LOADING ZONE |
677 | 115 NEWBURY ST, Boston | Back Bay | LOADING ZONE |
635 | 46 NEWBURY ST, Boston | Back Bay | LOADING ZONE |
629 | 150 HUNTINGTON AV, Boston | Back Bay | METER FEE UNPAID |
606 | 41 BELVIDERE ST, Boston | Back Bay | METER FEE UNPAID |
592 | 11 AV DE LAFAYETTE, Boston | Downtown | METER FEE UNPAID |
590 | 100 CAMBRIDGE ST, Boston | Downtown | METER FEE UNPAID |
581 | 126 NEWBURY ST, Boston | Back Bay | LOADING ZONE |
580 | 120 IPSWICH ST, Boston | Fenway | RESIDENT PERMIT ONLY METER FEE UNPAID |
538 | 501 BOYLSTON ST, Boston | Back Bay | LOADING ZONE |
SpotAngels helps drivers find street parking and avoid tickets in Boston and 100+ cities across North America. The SpotAngels parking map in Boston has parking rules, rates and availability information that is constantly updated by a community of 30k+ active Angels in the city.
The app also shows the riskiest times to get a ticket at a given spot using the Boston city data detailed above.
Most of the features on the app are free. Some are part of the ‘Plus’ plan which provides premium features like the chance to find parking based on historical availability contributions or alternate side parking reminders the night before street cleaning. Plus costs $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year.
Go to https://www.spotangels.com/parking_ticket_scanner
Enter your email and license plate and SpotAngels will notify you if you get a new ticket
Parking violation codes considered for the SpotAngels study:
STREET CLEANING
OVER POSTED LIMIT
OVER METER LIMIT
OVER POST LIM-ZONE B
OVER POST LIM-ZONE B
METER FEE UNPAID
OVER METER LIMIT
OVER POSTED LIMIT
STREET CLEANING
NO PARKING-ZONE B
NO PRK-B
NO PARKING ZONE B
RESIDENT PARK ONLY
RESIDENT PERMIT ONLY
RESIDENT PARK ONLY
COMMERCIAL OVERNIGHT
NO STOP OR STAND
NO PARKING
NO STOP OR STAND
LOADING ZONE
LOADING ZONE
NO PARKING
NO STOP / STAND
LOADING ZONE
OVR NIGHT ST CLEANIN
NO VALID RPP
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