Savoy

$3,019/year in property tax on the median home

At $14.52 per $1,000 of assessed value (fiscal 2026). The tax rate year by year, with the bill history and every town in the county, is on its own page. The full worked figure, mortgage at this week's rate, heating, the lot, is on the cost page, and the calculator takes any price.

Most homes here heat with heating oil. No Gas Main serves the town, heating follows the delivered-fuel market. This week's prices and the season maths are on the heating page.

590 parcels; the median single-family home here was built in 1979, surviving stock, not construction history.350 housing units at the 2020 count (324 in 2000). 62% of occupied homes are owner-occupied.

88% of homes here are single-family detached houses, and 15.9% of the housing stock predates 1940 while 6.3% went up in 2010 or later. Survey shares (2023), not counts.

16% of Homes Vacant at the Last Count

About 1 in 6 homes here stood empty at the April 2020 count, but 58.9% of those are seasonal or vacation homes. That is a second-home market, not an abandoned one.

≈4 sales a year

About 1 in 167 properties here changes hands in a year (2022–2024 average of recorded arm's-length deeds), at that pace, a property comes up roughly every 167 years. Steady-state arithmetic, not a measured wait, and the count includes land and commercial parcels.

3 new homes were permitted in 2025 (the Bureau's estimate; the town filed no monthly reports that year). County-wide, house prices moved up 1.06% in 2025 (Berkshire County index, a county figure, not this town's).

Younger Grades Local, Older Grades by Arrangement

The town's own schooling (Savoy (PK–05)) stops before grade 12; older students attend Adams-Cheshire (grades 6-12) under a tuition arrangement the town pays for. Every grade has a school, the question is where the bus goes.

The district spends $21,256 per student. That is total spending per pupil, an input the state publishes, not a rating or a ranking of the schools.

1 school building stands in town. Which building a child attends is set by the district, not by the address alone.

• Emma L Miller Elementary School · PK, K, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 · public elementary

Cable Internet: Spectrum

Cable internet serves this town. Franchise areas can stop at village edges, so confirm service at the specific address, not the town line.

No community water system is registered in this town, homes are on private wells. No municipal sewer treatment is registered here, homes are on septic systems, which state law has inspected at sale. Bedrock well yield potential in town is rated "average specific yield".

Flood Map Unavailable

The federal flood map for this town has not been digitised, so flood risk here is unmapped; that is not the same as absent. Ask the town's building department before relying on any flood answer.

5 dams in town. No sites appear in the state's cleanup registry for this town, a registry fact, not a clean bill of health. Address-level detail, this parcel, this street, is on the address check.

5.2% of working residents work right here in town. The rest most often head to Pittsfield, North adams, Adams. The town itself hosts 66 jobs.

Where people here work: living near Plainfield (3 already commute, 17 min), living near Windsor (17 min), living near Adams (23 already commute, 19 min), living near Cheshire (4 already commute, 22 min), living near Cummington (25 min), living near North Adams (45 already commute, 28 min), living near Pittsfield (87 already commute, 37 min).

The average commute from here runs 34 minutes one way (working residents who leave home for work, 2023 5-year estimate). Walkability, where people live, scores 1.5 out of 20 on the EPA's index (least walkable).

BRTA runs fixed-route buses here: 2 stops in town, on one route. 903 · North Adams / Greenfield .

$1,709/Month: HUD's Two-Bedroom Standard

HUD's fair-rent standard for a two-bedroom here is $1,709 a month, the figure housing vouchers are built on for the Berkshire County, MA (part) HUD Metro FMR Area, not what landlords ask. It assumes rent plus most utilities, so it is not comparable to an advertised rent that excludes heat.

54.8% of households here fall below 80% of the area's median family income, the federal housing-programme measure of need, not a poverty rate. 0% of the town's year-round homes count toward the state's subsidized-housing inventory (the state threshold where override rules change is 10%).

81.3% of renters here spend a third or more of their income on housing (0% spend half or more); for owners it is 20.7%. The federal "cost-burdened" line is 30% of income; these are 5-year survey estimates (2023), not a headcount.

Winters average 21.8°F, summers 62.5°F, and about 85″ of snow a year

Thirty-year normals (1991–2020), not this year's weather. The year averages 42.6°F with 50.28″ of precipitation. Readings come from the nearest long-record weather station to each measure, so a hilltown reading a valley station will see less snow here than falls on its own ridges.

Population is up 132.9% since 1960. Between 1971 and 1999, about 308 acres were developed. About 23.7% of adults here hold a bachelor's degree or higher (2023 survey). The deep story, the town's oldest surviving houses and what they're built in, is in the Old House Atlas.