Midtown Savannah
About midtown Savannah
Midtown is where Savannah's residential life is rooted. Drawn tightly, it's the stretch between Victory Drive and DeRenne Avenue, Bull Street and Waters Avenue, which is the Ardsley Park and Parkside side of it. Most locals extend it further south, past DeRenne, to take in Kensington Park, Habersham Woods and Magnolia Park. Either way, it's one of the city's most established neighborhoods, tree-lined, unhurried, and genuinely beautiful in the way that only comes from a century of people taking care of things.
The neighborhoods here each have their own personality. Ardsley Park is Savannah's original suburb, developed starting in 1909 with a grid that echoes Oglethorpe's own plan — landscaped squares, circular parks, and some of the most architecturally varied housing stock in the city. Just outside it is Daffin Park, 77 acres of green with Grayson Stadium and the Savannah Bananas inside it.
You're in the heart of Savannah here. That's the point.
Where Midtown starts and where it stops
Midtown is the part of Savannah where the map and the mailing address stop agreeing. The national search sites each draw their own lines here, and then they merge neighborhoods nobody local has ever merged. Redfin reports Kensington Park as Groveland-Kensington Park, Magnolia Park as Magnolia Park-Blueberry Hill, and Ardsley Park as Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent.
That's how a home in Habersham Woods surfaces under a Kensington Park label, and how a search set to Ardsley Park hands you houses from the section next door. Habersham Woods and Habersham Village get treated as one thing too. The Village is the shops and restaurants along Habersham Street. The Woods is residential and sits apart from it.
If you have your eye on Midtown but you're not certain yet where you want to land, or what neighborhoods there are to choose from here, reach out! I'm happy to put a list together for you.
The neighborhoods inside Midtown
Ardsley Park is the oldest piece of this and the one people picture first. The housing runs early to mid twentieth century and detached, and no two blocks look alike. A Tudor, a Colonial Revival and a brick bungalow can sit in a row.
Parkside sits around Daffin Park, and the housing is smaller and closer together than Ardsley. Craftsman bungalows, tighter lots, sidewalks that lead to the park rather than to a subdivision entrance.
Kensington Park is postwar, laid out on collector roads rather than a grid, with wider lots and more room between houses. It was never a master-planned subdivision, so there is no gate and no architectural review.
Habersham Woods is the estate end of Midtown. Larger lots, larger houses, and eclectic builds where no two neighbors chose the same thing. It sits back off the Habersham Street corridor, close enough to walk to it, with sidewalks and the quiet that comes from being off the main road.
Magnolia Park runs older and smaller, mostly ranch homes on generous lots with wide streets. There is no new construction here.
A few things that make owning in Midtown different
No required dues, no architectural committee signing off on your windows. That's why the streetscape reads the way it does, as a long run of individual decisions rather than one plan, and it's a good part of what holds the character here. It's still worth asking block by block, so you know what's in place before you're in it.
Midtown sits inside the city limits, which means a tax bill here carries a City of Savannah layer on top of Chatham County, the school system and transit. An address a few miles out can look similar on paper and stack up differently. I walked through how the layers work in my guide to property taxes in Savannah.
School assignment comes from Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools and it is set by address, not by neighborhood, and the boundaries get revisited. If schools are part of what you're weighing, check the assignment for the exact house. My guide to Savannah schools covers how the choice and magnet side of it works.
Homes for Sale in Midtown Savannah
EXPLORE MIDTOWN SAVANNAH NEIGHBORHOODS
OPEN HOUSES IN MIDTOWN
Open house times come straight from the MLS and change through the week. Jump straight to Midtown, Ardsley Park or Parkside. You can also browse every open house across Savannah.
New to Savannah? These cover the parts that are easy to miss: what it costs to live here, how the neighborhoods compare and property taxes.
Thinking about making midtown home?
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