Savage, Maryland.
Typical home $579,511 (+1.2% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,451 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,091 +1%
- $572,419$579,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,564 +15%
- $502,947$579,511 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Savage$3,042
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Savage, MD rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Savage, Howard County, Maryland
Savage, in Howard County, had 7,542 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $116,895 a year and half less, against $149,763 across Howard County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Howard County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Savage is a small community in Howard County, Maryland, with a population that skews a little younger than older. Incomes run below the county's, though most households are comfortably above the poverty line, and a majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government, and in shops. Many adults hold a four-year degree, a good number work from home, and the typical commute is of moderate length. Across Howard County, the largest workplaces include Howard County Public Schools, Howard Community College and Froneri.
Things to do. The Smithsonian Institution, a museum, is a longer drive away, as is the National Mall, a park lined with memorials and museums. The Lincoln Memorial, a protected area, is also a longer drive away, and for sports, M&T Bank Stadium is a longer drive as well.
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- 3,007households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Howard County had 173,088 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Howard County
- Howard County Public SchoolsSchool district8,861FTE
- Howard CountyGeneral hospital1,492FTE
- Howard Community CollegeTwo-year college1,148
- FroneriCustard, frozen, manufacturing893
- Advarra -MarylandLaboratory testing services, medical818
- Maxim Healthcare ServicesHome health care agencies812
- Giant FoodGeneral warehousing and storag766
- Globus MedicalNeurologists' offices682
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 290 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,136 people in all across the county; Savage has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Savage’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Howard County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Savage home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Savage$579,511
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Savage8
Zip codes with a Savage address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Savage — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.