Best PlacesRoland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore, 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.
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore ranks 1,395th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and the schools rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
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.
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore's strengths and weaknesses
Where Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 94% of neighborhoods
- Educational attainmentBetter than 93% of neighborhoods
- Voter turnoutBetter than 91% of neighborhoods
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 90% of neighborhoods
Where Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore ranks low
- School gradeF, better than only 2% of neighborhoods
- State infrastructureBetter than only 3% of neighborhoods
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 12% of neighborhoods
- Low property taxBetter than only 16% of neighborhoods
What it costs to buy a home in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
A household needs to earn about $121,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $127,008, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore's effective rate of 1.51%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore 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 Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore.
Who works in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore, and how
Work in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore centers on education and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 56%
- Work from home 31%
- Transit, walk, or bike 14%
Life in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of neighborhoods and more parkland per resident than 82% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 17 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore, month by month
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore sees roughly 96 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 Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 12 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 Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
Schools across Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore average an F, better than 2% of neighborhoods.
Top elementary schools
- Roland Park Elementary/middleB− · 44% proficient
- Hampden Elementary/middleD+ · 24% proficient
- Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins PartnershipF · 8% proficient
Top high schools
- Baltimore Polytechnic InstituteA · 75% proficient
- Western HighC · 31% proficient
- The Reach! Partnership SchoolF · 4% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore 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 Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.
Common questions about living in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore
Is Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore ranks 1,395th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on health care access, what local pay buys, and an educated workforce, and lowest on the schools and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $420,226. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $127,008 median income, cost of living beats 94% of neighborhoods.
Is Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore safe?
Yes, Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore is safer than 56% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $414 per resident a year.
Compare Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore with other neighborhoods
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore 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.
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Roland Park-Homewood-Guilford, Baltimore 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.
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