Best PlacesSavage, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Savage, 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.
Savage ranks 18,918th 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 Savage
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.
Savage's strengths and weaknesses
Where Savage ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 97% of towns
- BikingBetter than 97% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 94% of towns
Where Savage ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,745 a month, better than only 1% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 2% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Savage
A household needs to earn about $104,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Savage home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $87,144, 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 Savage's effective rate of 1.13%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Savage
Savage runs younger 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 Savage.
Who works in Savage, and how
Work in Savage centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Savage
Savage has more restaurants and bars per resident than 83% of towns. The coast is about 23 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Savage and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Savage, month by month
Savage sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 34° | 27° |
| April | 67° | 54° | 43° |
| July | 87° | 76° | 67° |
| October | 68° | 56° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Savage
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 8 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 Savage
Schools across Savage average a C, better than 34% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Guilford ElementaryD+ · 21% proficient
- Bollman Bridge ElementaryD · 18% proficient
Top middle schools
- Patuxent Valley MiddleC− · 29% proficient
- Lake Elkhorn MiddleD+ · 24% proficient
Top high schools
- Hammond HighB · 49% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Savage school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Savage 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 Savage against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Savage
Is Savage a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Savage ranks 18,918th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, transit, 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 Savage expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $382,222. The overall cost of living runs about 2% below the national average. Set against a $87,144 median income, cost of living beats 68% of towns.
Is Savage safe?
Savage is safer than 26% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $384 per resident a year.
Compare Savage with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Savage. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Savage 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.
Savage detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Savage: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Savage: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Savage: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Savage: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Savage 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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