Linwood, MD

Reisterstown, near Linwood, MD: Reisterstown Historic District Dec 09
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City Score 36 · Liberty · Baltimore-Columbia area · Maryland

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What is Linwood's City Score?

Linwood, MD scores 36 out of 100 on the Joy Project City Score, status Liberty since Nov 2026: Condition 40 (the city from public data) and Movement 31 (how the church is moving). It is updated weekly, every number with its source.

City Score: Linwood, MD

Linwood, MD scores 36 out of 100 on the Joy Project City Score, status Liberty since Nov 2026. Condition 40 (the city from public data, 60%) and Movement 31 (how the church is moving, 40%). How the score is built.

Condition: Maryland state-wide

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State-wide for Burden, Marriage & family, and Liberty: the numbers for Violent crime, Property crime, Legal gambling, Divorces, Marriages, Religious Liberty in the States score, Safeguards fully in law, State Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Anti-Christian hate crimes, School choice, Protections for the unborn, Homeschool freedom, and Tone of news coverage of Christianity are published for Maryland as a whole, not by city, so every Maryland city carries Maryland's numbers.

Maryland scores 39 out of 100, Liberty since Oct 2026 (Condition 43 · Movement 33).

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What's moving it

  • 18 prayer gatherings (Prayer, listed from church websites)
  • 99 ways to serve (Service, listed from church websites)
  • 113 gatherings (Gathering, listed from church websites)
  • 200 churches listed (Unity, listed from church websites)
  • 54 Bible studies (Discipleship, listed from church websites)

The condition of Linwood, MD

  • What Linwood is up against: 77 out of 100 — Better than 3% of cities, down 17 points (Maryland state-wide)
  • Where grace is growing: 27 out of 100 — Better than 41% of cities (From the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area)
  • Marriage & family: 46 out of 100 — Better than 45% of cities (Maryland state-wide)
  • Christian liberty: 63 out of 100 — Better than 65% of cities, up 17 points (Maryland state-wide)

Christianity on the Move in Linwood, MD

A non-biased rating of Christian values across the cultural areas of impact, from public data: 1 to 100, higher is more favourable. Linwood, MD rates 40 out of 100: Drifting across 8 of 8 areas.

  • The Church: 16, Barren
  • The Family: 45, Mending
  • Education: 55, Searching
  • Government: 65, Just
  • Media: 46, Mixed
  • Arts & Entertainment: 21, Worldly
  • Business: 54, Fair
  • Compassion: 16, Hardened

Every measure behind Linwood, MD's ratings

What takes Linwood, MD to Revival

  • City Pulse: City Pulse 0 → 40
  • Prayer: Prayer 0 → 45
  • Discipleship: Discipleship 0 → 45
  • Unity: Unity 0 → 45

What affected it

  • This quarter: Anti-Christian hate crimes up 59 percentile points (Christian liberty)
  • This quarter: Property crime down 39 percentile points (What Linwood is up against)
  • This quarter: Drug overdose deaths down 27 percentile points (What Linwood is up against)

Linwood, MD over time

  • — Entered Liberty

The full City Score for Linwood, MD, every indicator with its source

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