Best PlacesAustintown, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Austintown, 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.
Austintown ranks 1,464th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and low incomes rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Austintown
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.
Austintown's strengths and weaknesses
Where Austintown ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 97% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 80% of cities
- Short commute22.0 minutes each way, better than 77% of cities
- School gradeB+, better than 76% of cities
Where Austintown ranks low
- Household income$56,934 median, better than only 5% of cities
- Health outlookBetter than only 11% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 12% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 18% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 70 pleasant days a year, better than only 27% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Austintown
A household needs to earn about $38,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Austintown home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $56,934, 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 Austintown's effective rate of 1.26%, 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 Austintown
Austintown 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 Austintown.
Who works in Austintown, and how
Work in Austintown centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Austintown
Austintown has more restaurants and bars per resident than 81% of cities and more parkland per resident than 82% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Austintown and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Austintown, month by month
Austintown sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 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° | 50° | 37° |
| July | 86° | 73° | 61° |
| October | 67° | 55° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Austintown
The nearest airport, Akron-Canton Regional, is about 39 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Pittsburgh International, about 49 miles away.
The best schools in and around Austintown
Schools across Austintown average a B+, better than 76% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Austintown Intermediate SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Prospect Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Austintown Middle SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Girard Junior High SchoolA− · 55% proficient
Top high schools
- Fitch High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
- Girard Sr High SchoolB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Austintown school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Austintown 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 Austintown against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Austintown suits
Common questions about living in Austintown
Is Austintown a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Austintown ranks 1,464th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, low disaster risk, and low taxes, and lowest on low incomes and health outcomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Austintown expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $138,354. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $56,934 median income, cost of living beats 12% of cities.
Is Austintown safe?
Austintown is safer than 18% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $391 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Austintown?
July highs average about 86 degrees, and January highs near 38 with lows near 21. That works out to about 70 pleasant days a year, more than 27% of cities.
Is Austintown good for families?
Schools beat 76% of cities, crime safety beats 18%, and childcare runs $959 a month.
Compare Austintown with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Austintown. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Austintown 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.
Austintown detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Austintown: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Austintown: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Austintown: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Austintown: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Austintown 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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