Savage is a medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 21,184 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Savage is the 40th largest community in Minnesota.

Savage is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Savage is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Savage who work in management occupations (14.10%), sales jobs (13.69%), and office and administrative support jobs (13.12%).

Also of interest is that Savage has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

For most residents of Savage, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 97.7% of people in Savage drive alone to work on most days, making Savage a very car-oriented city. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Savage's landscape.

Savage is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Savage Information and Demographics

The population of Savage is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 41.36% of adults in Savage have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Savage in 2000 was $26,858, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,432 for a family of four. However, Savage contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Savage home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Savage is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Savage include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Savage is English.