Best PlacesSherwood, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Sherwood, 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.
Sherwood ranks 14,936th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Sherwood
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.
Sherwood's strengths and weaknesses
Where Sherwood ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 96% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 94% of towns
- QuietBetter than 91% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 86% of towns
Where Sherwood ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 6% 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 Sherwood
A household needs to earn about $145,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Sherwood home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $101,216, 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 Sherwood's effective rate of 0.68%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Sherwood
Sherwood 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 Sherwood.
Who works in Sherwood, and how
Work in Sherwood centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 18%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Sherwood
The coast is about 1 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Sherwood, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Sherwood, month by month
Sherwood sees roughly 93 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 31. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 38° | 31° |
| April | 68° | 58° | 49° |
| July | 89° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 71° | 62° | 54° |
Flying in and out of Sherwood
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 35 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 Sherwood
Schools across Sherwood average a C, better than 36% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tilghman ElementaryD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Windy Hill MiddleB · 43% proficient
- Matapeake Middle SchoolC · 35% proficient
- Easton MiddleD · 23% proficient
Top high schools
- Huntingtown High SchoolA · 72% proficient
- St. Michaels Middle/high SchoolB− · 45% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Sherwood school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Sherwood 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 Sherwood against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Sherwood
Is Sherwood a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Sherwood ranks 14,936th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, low crime, and big-city access, and lowest on taxes 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 Sherwood expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $563,400. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $101,216 median income, cost of living beats 86% of towns.
Is Sherwood safe?
Yes, Sherwood is safer than 96% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $148 per resident a year.
Compare Sherwood with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Sherwood. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Sherwood 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.
Sherwood detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Sherwood: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Sherwood: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Sherwood: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Sherwood: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Sherwood 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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