boston_housing

The Boston housing dataset contains information collected by the U.S Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston Massachusetts. It has 506 samples and 14 variables. The response data is medv which is the median-value of owner-occupied homes in $1000. You can download it here.

Variable	Description
CRIM	Per capita crime rate by town
ZN	Proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.
INDUS	Proportion of non-retail business acres per town
CHAS	Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
NOX	Nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million)
RM	Average number of rooms per dwelling
AGE	Proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
DIS	Weighted distances to five Boston employment centres
RAD	Index of accessibility to radial highways
TAX	Full-value property-tax rate per 10,000 Dollar
PTRATIO	Pupil-teacher ratio by town
BLACK	1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town
LSTAT	Lower status of the population
MEDV	Median value of owner-occupied homes in 1000's Dollar