These are the Boston neighborhoods with the most Sept. 1 move-in traffic
The moving trucks return.
It’s that time of year again: Boston’s Sept. 1 move-in day is coming.
While the traffic from an abnormally high volume of move-in rental trucks on the streets may not be 100 percent avoidable — especially if you’re driving one of them — there are some key areas of the city to avoid if you’re trying to spare yourself a headache.
The apartment listing website, Renthop, recently took moving truck permit data from City Hall, to create a heat map that gives a pretty good idea of the Boston areas that will be a hotbed of moving-related activity.
Data used for the map took only permit expiration dates into account, which Renthop notes “generally coincide with the actual moving dates.”
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the number of permits increases the closer the date is to Sept. 1, which had 747 permits set to expire that day — with 416 on Aug. 31 — when Renthop published the map on Aug. 20.
According to the map, the busiest move-in neighborhoods on Sept. 1 are Allston, Brighton, Beacon Hill, the North End, and South Boston, although it appears moving permits are pretty widespread with smaller concentrations in Fenway, Back Bay, and the South End.
However, in terms of the number of permits issued for the entire month of August, Back Bay tops the list with 444 permits followed by Brighton with 412, South Boston with 406, the West End with 385, and the North End with 358, according to Renthop.
If you do find yourself driving around that day, remember there are also traffic and parking regulations in place that the city has listed out on its website.
And there is a plus side to the move-in chaos, according to Renthop: the free, abandoned-at-the-curb furniture frenzy that is Allston Christmas.
“So instead of treating this whole ordeal as a disturbance or a huge place to be avoided, treat it as an opportunity,” the Renthop website said. “There is a good chance you can find some pretty cool things simply laying on the sidewalk or in the street.”
