Best PlacesLutherville-Timonium, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lutherville-Timonium, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Lutherville-Timonium ranks 2,450th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Lutherville-Timonium
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.
Lutherville-Timonium's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lutherville-Timonium ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Household income$140,665 median, better than 96% of towns
- BikingBetter than 94% of towns
Where Lutherville-Timonium ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% 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
- Air qualityBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lutherville-Timonium
A household needs to earn about $168,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lutherville-Timonium home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $140,665, 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 Lutherville-Timonium's effective rate of 0.87%, 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 Lutherville-Timonium
Lutherville-Timonium runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Lutherville-Timonium.
Who works in Lutherville-Timonium, and how
Work in Lutherville-Timonium centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Lutherville-Timonium
Lutherville-Timonium has more parkland per resident than 98% of towns. The coast is about 27 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Lutherville-Timonium and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Lutherville-Timonium, month by month
Lutherville-Timonium sees roughly 97 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 39° | 33° |
| April | 68° | 59° | 51° |
| July | 91° | 83° | 76° |
| October | 71° | 63° | 56° |
Flying in and out of Lutherville-Timonium
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 18 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 Lutherville-Timonium
Schools across Lutherville-Timonium average a B−, better than 59% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Riderwood ElementaryA− · 60% proficient
- Timonium ElementaryA− · 60% proficient
- Hampton ElementaryB · 49% proficient
Top middle schools
- Ridgely MiddleB+ · 48% proficient
- Dumbarton MiddleB · 45% proficient
- Cockeysville MiddleC · 34% proficient
Top high schools
- Towson HighB+ · 55% proficient
- Dulaney HighB− · 45% proficient
- Pikesville HighC+ · 38% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lutherville-Timonium school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lutherville-Timonium 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 Lutherville-Timonium against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lutherville-Timonium
Is Lutherville-Timonium a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lutherville-Timonium ranks 2,450th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, an educated workforce, and big-city access, and lowest on taxes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Lutherville-Timonium expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $637,449. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $140,665 median income, cost of living beats 98% of towns.
Is Lutherville-Timonium safe?
Lutherville-Timonium is safer than 36% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $344 per resident a year.
Compare Lutherville-Timonium with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lutherville-Timonium. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lutherville-Timonium 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.
Lutherville-Timonium detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lutherville-Timonium: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lutherville-Timonium: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lutherville-Timonium: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lutherville-Timonium: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lutherville-Timonium 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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