Best PlacesAlliance, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Alliance, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Alliance ranks 1,530th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and health outcomes rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Alliance
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.
Alliance's strengths and weaknesses
Where Alliance ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 88% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than 85% of cities
- Short commute22.0 minutes each way, better than 77% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 72% of cities
Where Alliance ranks low
- Health outlookBetter than only 4% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than only 7% of cities
- Household income$62,175 median, better than only 11% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 12% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 64 pleasant days a year, better than only 14% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Alliance
A household needs to earn about $38,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Alliance home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $62,175, 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 Alliance's effective rate of 0.92%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Alliance
Alliance runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Alliance.
Who works in Alliance, and how
Work in Alliance centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Alliance
Alliance has more restaurants and bars per resident than 73% of cities and more parkland per resident than 94% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Alliance and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Alliance, month by month
Alliance sees roughly 64 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 29° | 21° |
| April | 64° | 51° | 39° |
| July | 87° | 75° | 64° |
| October | 68° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Alliance
The nearest airport, Akron-Canton Regional, is about 17 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Cleveland-Hopkins International, about 52 miles away.
The best schools in and around Alliance
Schools across Alliance average a B, better than 68% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Washington Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Alliance Intermediate School @ NorthsideA− · 57% proficient
- Lexington Elementary SchoolB · 50% proficient
Top middle schools
- West Branch Middle SchoolA+ · 70% proficient
- Louisville Middle SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Marlington Middle SchoolA · 65% proficient
Top high schools
- Louisville High SchoolA · 69% proficient
- West Branch High SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Marlington High SchoolA− · 67% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Alliance school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Alliance 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 Alliance against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Alliance suits
Common questions about living in Alliance
Is Alliance a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Alliance ranks 1,530th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, a stable housing market, and low disaster risk, and lowest on health outcomes and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Alliance expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $144,154. The overall cost of living runs about 20% below the national average. Set against a $62,175 median income, cost of living beats 23% of cities.
Is Alliance safe?
Alliance is safer than 12% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $431 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Alliance?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 38 with lows near 21. That works out to about 64 pleasant days a year, more than 14% of cities.
Is Alliance good for families?
Schools beat 68% of cities, crime safety beats 12%, and childcare runs $952 a month.
Compare Alliance with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Alliance. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Alliance 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.
Alliance detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Alliance: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Alliance: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Alliance: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Alliance: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Alliance 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.