Best Places43025, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 43025, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
43025 ranks 14,123rd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in 43025
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
43025's strengths and weaknesses
Where 43025 ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 95% of zip codes
- Voter turnoutBetter than 90% of zip codes
- Disaster safetyBetter than 90% of zip codes
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 79% of zip codes
- Crime safetyBetter than 77% of zip codes
Where 43025 ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of zip codes
- Nice weatherabout 60 pleasant days a year, better than only 8% of zip codes
- QuietBetter than only 9% of zip codes
- Low property taxBetter than only 19% of zip codes
- Tree shadeBetter than only 26% of zip codes
What it costs to buy a home in 43025
A household needs to earn about $80,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 43025 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $80,624, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 43025's effective rate of 1.32%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in 43025
43025 runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 43025.
Who works in 43025, and how
Work in 43025 centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in 43025
43025 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of zip codes and more parkland per resident than 93% of zip codes. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of 43025 and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in 43025, month by month
43025 sees roughly 60 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 31° | 22° |
| April | 67° | 53° | 40° |
| July | 88° | 75° | 63° |
| October | 71° | 56° | 43° |
Flying in and out of 43025
John Glenn Columbus International sits about 21 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 94 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around 43025
Schools across 43025 average a B+, better than 74% of zip codes.
Top elementary schools
- Granville Elementary SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Jackson IntermediateB · 49% proficient
Top middle schools
- Granville Intermediate SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
- Watkins Middle SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Lakewood Middle SchoolB+ · 48% proficient
Top high schools
- Granville High SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
- Watkins Memorial High SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Lakewood High SchoolB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 43025 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
43025 measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 43025 against the other 33,109 zip codes.
Common questions about living in 43025
Is 43025 a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 43025 ranks 14,123rd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, civic engagement, and low disaster risk, and lowest on an overheated housing market and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is 43025 expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $284,387. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $80,624 median income, cost of living beats 63% of zip codes.
Is 43025 safe?
Yes, 43025 is safer than 77% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $209 per resident a year.
Compare 43025 with other zip codes
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 43025. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 43025 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
43025 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for 43025: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in 43025: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of 43025: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in 43025: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
43025 detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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