Best PlacesSagamore, MA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Sagamore, 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.
Sagamore ranks 6,445th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on civic engagement by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Sagamore
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.
Sagamore's strengths and weaknesses
Where Sagamore ranks high
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 96% of towns
Where Sagamore ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,514 a month, better than only 3% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 24% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 25% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Sagamore
A household needs to earn about $130,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Sagamore home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $98,289, 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 Sagamore's effective rate of 0.71%, 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 Sagamore
Sagamore runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Sagamore.
Who works in Sagamore, and how
Work in Sagamore centers on health care & social and wholesale trade. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Sagamore
The coast is about 4 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Sagamore, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Sagamore, month by month
Sagamore sees roughly 97 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 80 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 32° | 25° |
| April | 55° | 47° | 39° |
| July | 80° | 73° | 66° |
| October | 63° | 56° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Sagamore
The nearest airport, Cape Cod Gateway, is about 15 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 48 miles away.
The best schools in and around Sagamore
Schools across Sagamore average a B−, better than 60% of towns.
Top middle schools
- Bourne Middle SchoolC− · 31% proficient
Top high schools
- Sandwich Middle High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
- Bourne High SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Sagamore school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Sagamore 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 Sagamore against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Sagamore
Is Sagamore a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Sagamore ranks 6,445th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on civic engagement, an educated workforce, and biking, and lowest on noise and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Sagamore expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $501,491. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $98,289 median income, cost of living beats 63% of towns.
Is Sagamore safe?
Yes, Sagamore is safer than 86% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $182 per resident a year.
Compare Sagamore with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Sagamore. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Sagamore 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.
Sagamore detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Sagamore: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Sagamore: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Sagamore: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Sagamore: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Sagamore 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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