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Place dossier plate
SheetMN-SAVAGE-MN · Savage, MN 32,706 pop · income 88th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Savage
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Savage on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Houma · lowest
54,637
Houma · lowest
54,637 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #1
Byram Center · near
122,639
Byram Center · near
122,639 median HH income
59.0% of the leader · rank #2
Midlothian · near
122,643
Midlothian · near
122,643 median HH income
59.0% of the leader · rank #3
Savage · this city
122,646
Savage · this city
122,646 median HH income
59.0% of the leader · rank #4
East Oakdale · near
122,647
East Oakdale · near
122,647 median HH income
59.0% of the leader · rank #5
Shorewood · near
122,648
Shorewood · near
122,648 median HH income
59.0% of the leader · rank #6
Los Gatos · highest
207,891
Los Gatos · highest
207,891 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Savage on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 32,706.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Savage - the verdict
Savage ranks in the 88th percentile for household income and the 72nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
88th
percentile, household income
77th
percentile, home value
36th
percentile, median rent
72nd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Savage, MN
Savage is a small city in Minnesota, home to 32,706 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Savage brings in $122,646 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Typical homes in Savage are valued around $395,600, and the median resident age is 37.4 years. 51.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 73.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 27 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 93% from five years earlier. Savage reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 793.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Minnesota tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 98.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,125 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Minnesota, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 42.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Savage's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Savage, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Savage?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 793.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 65% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
How far does income reach against housing in Savage?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Savage?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Savage?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Minnesota, the closest population matches are Brooklyn Center (32,811 residents, $72,009 income); Andover (32,825 residents, $131,528 income); Fridley (29,944 residents, $79,274 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lathrop, CA (32,696 residents); Pasadena, MD (32,717 residents); Goleta, CA (32,693 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Savage?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 51.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
2.7%
Bachelor's degree+
51.5%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +383 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 27 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
32,587
2025 estimate
32,970
Period change
+1.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Minnesota average
B+
City profile score · Savage, MN
75/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A
$122,646
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
51.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
79 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living D
98.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Savage profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 87/100 (A) · $122,646
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) · 51.5%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 79 /100k
Cost of living: 46/100 (D) · 98.6 index
Where Savage sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Savage's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Savage highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Savage, MN (this city): home $395,600, crime 794/100k
Lathrop, CA : home $605,000, crime 1,723/100k
Goleta, CA : home $1,002,500, crime 1,774/100k
St. Charles, IL : home $369,700, crime 1,156/100k
Los Gatos, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 1,580/100k
Brooklyn Center, MN : home $261,100, crime 3,368/100k
Fridley, MN : home $277,100, crime 3,327/100k
Inver Grove Heights, MN : home $352,300, crime 1,560/100k
Roseville, MN : home $334,800, crime 8,897/100k
Richfield, MN : home $320,400, crime 2,728/100k
How does Savage compare to other US cities?
Savage measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income88% higher than other cities
Home value77% pricier than other cities
Median rent36% pricier than other cities
Safety72% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Minnesota, Savage ranks #108 of 229 Minnesota cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Savage against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Minnesota only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Minnesota-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Savage near the bottom of Minnesota's cities
Among the 785 Minnesota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Savage ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Savage only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#57 of 775
93rd percentile in Minnesota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 785
0th percentile in Minnesota
Median Home Value
#64 of 774
92nd percentile in Minnesota
Poverty Rate
#556 of 785
28th percentile in Minnesota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#53 of 784
93rd percentile in Minnesota
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Minnesota only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
88th percentile nationally for median household income · 72nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Savage's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Savage's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Savage's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$395,60023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Savage's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,807 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,206 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Savage sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,807 of 15,516 and #1,206 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$122,646Savage, MN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Savage, MN median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Savage, MN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)51.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
32,706
Median Income
$122,646
Median Home Value
$395,600
Median Age
37.4
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
73.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
51.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
793.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
78.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
715.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Savage's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
32,587 residents
2021
33,037 residents
2022
32,947 residents
2023
33,071 residents
2024
32,955 residents
2025
32,970 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
27
housing units authorized
Single-Family
25
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
362
172
190
$71.0M
2020
106
86
20
$32.3M
2021
93
69
24
$29.5M
2022
193
35
158
$46.0M
2023
39
19
20
$10.5M
2024
27
25
2
$9.3M
Permit volume decreased 93% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.2%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
19.7%
Other
1.3%
Based on 18,468 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Minnesota statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Minnesota at $225 (electricity about $95 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Minnesota statewide averages, not a meter reading for Savage. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Minnesota's BEA cost-of-living index is 98.6 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Savage is $1,125/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Minnesota statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 42.4 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Minnesota statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Savage sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Savage compares to similar-size Minnesota cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.