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Live well for less in Savage, Minn., and enjoy top schools, low crime, quality parks and recreational facilities, and reasonable commutes.
The landing point for Irish and Scottish immigrants in 1800, Savage has grown into a developing bedroom community, absorbing population growth from Burnsville, its larger neighbor to the east. Previously named Hamilton after the city in Ontario, Canada, the town was renamed Savage after Marion Willis Savage who owned and trained the nationally celebrated racing horse Dan Patch. This city located 15 miles south of Minneapolis in Scott County has a total area of 16.45 square miles, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Once a shipbuilding port for the U.S. Navy, Savage is now an industrial manufacturing job center in the southern metro. Savage’s assets include the Minnesota River, which forms the city’s northern border, and gave rise to one of the major industries in Savage. Private facilities operate along the banks of the river to form the Port of Savage. The city is still relatively undeveloped, with sections of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve within its borders.
Over one-third of Savage is parks and open space. There are 23 parks, as well as a regional park and hundreds of miles of sidewalks and trails. The 53-acre Savage Community Park is not only home to baseball/softball fields, tennis courts, trails, a nature area, fishing pier, a soccer field, basketball court, playground equipment, and the city’s skateboard park, but two other amenities. The McColl Pond Environmental Learning and Event Center (ELC) is set among 10 acres of native prairie, rain gardens, butterfly gardens and mature trees within Community Park.
The state-of-the-art Savage Sports Center in the northwest part of Community Park draws 50,000 people a year to sporting games and community events, such as the Home and Garden Show and Movies in the Outfield. May through October the dome structure is down and the artificial turf becomes an excellent outdoor venue for athletic competitions.
The 2,400-acre Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve is operated by the Three Rivers Park District. Its hilly terrain and unique landscape has earned the park a reputation as one of the top trails in the Twin Cities area for mountain biking. It’s the site for the annual Dirt Cup: Mountain Bike Spring Series. Savage is also home to the 500-acre Savage Fen Wetland Complex, which contains some of the largest calcareous ferns in the state. Geocachers and more are drawn to Boiling Springs, an environmental phenomenon and is one of the largest sand boil springs in the Midwest. The spring is at the headwaters of Eagle Creek, one of the last remaining self-producing brown trout population in the metropolitan area.
This community knows how to balance big city convenience with a small town feel. With a population of 30,000, the city has a large retail business area filled with many locally-owned businesses. While strolling through the quaint downtown area, don’t forget to head over to the historic Savage Depot for a cup of coffee and a muffin.
The Savage Library sponsors many events. Plus it is home to the Savage Senior Club, the Savage Arts Council, and the Heritage Room, which features historical artifacts related to Savage.
There’s plenty of room to spread out in Savage, and may be part of why Savage has been named Best Places to Live in America by Money Magazine, and among the Best Affordable Suburbs in the nation by BusinessWeek. The population density is about 1,721.8 inhabitants per square mile, and there are about 9,429 housing units at an average density of 603.3 per square mile. With affordable homes, there’s an 87.9 % household ownership rate. The 7,222 families who reside in the city have a median household income of about $94,432.
Minnesota State Highway 13 and County Road 42 are two of the main routes in Savage, but the city is also conveniently located between the two major roadways of Highway 169 and Interstate 35W.
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