Best PlacesHarewood Park, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Harewood Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Harewood Park ranks 33,744th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Harewood Park
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Harewood Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Harewood Park ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 97% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 88% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 87% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 79% of towns
Where Harewood Park ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,377 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Harewood Park
A household needs to earn about $123,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Harewood Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $84,837, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Harewood Park's effective rate of 1.08%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Harewood Park
Harewood Park runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Harewood Park.
Who works in Harewood Park, and how
Work in Harewood Park centers on hospitality & food and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 4%
- Transit, walk, or bike 14%
Life in Harewood Park
The coast is about 16 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Harewood Park, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Harewood Park, month by month
Harewood Park sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 36° | 30° |
| April | 65° | 56° | 47° |
| July | 88° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 69° | 60° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Harewood Park
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 21 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.3 million passengers in 2025, with 114 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Harewood Park
Schools across Harewood Park average a C, better than 31% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Vincent Farm ElementaryD+ · 21% proficient
Top middle schools
- Perry Hall MiddleC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Perry Hall HighC+ · 35% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Harewood Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Harewood Park measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Harewood Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Harewood Park
Is Harewood Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Harewood Park ranks 33,744th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, big-city access, and heat safety, and lowest on taxes and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Harewood Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $453,400. The overall cost of living runs about 4% below the national average. Set against a $84,837 median income, cost of living beats 66% of towns.
Is Harewood Park safe?
Harewood Park is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $599 per resident a year.
Compare Harewood Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Harewood Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Harewood Park represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Harewood Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Harewood Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Harewood Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Harewood Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Harewood Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Harewood Park detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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