Best PlacesBentleyville, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bentleyville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Bentleyville ranks 263rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Bentleyville
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.
Bentleyville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Bentleyville ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of towns
- Household income$161,409 median, better than 98% of towns
Where Bentleyville ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 25% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 30% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Bentleyville
A household needs to earn about $138,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bentleyville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $161,409, 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 Bentleyville's effective rate of 2.07%, 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 Bentleyville
Bentleyville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bentleyville.
Who works in Bentleyville, and how
Work in Bentleyville centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 71%
- Work from home 26%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Bentleyville
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Bentleyville.
What the weather is like in Bentleyville, month by month
Bentleyville sees roughly 90 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 30° | 24° |
| April | 59° | 50° | 41° |
| July | 82° | 75° | 66° |
| October | 64° | 57° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Bentleyville
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 23 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.9 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Bentleyville
Schools across Bentleyville average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Gurney Elementary SchoolA+ · 91% proficient
Top middle schools
- Chagrin Falls Intermediate Elementary SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
Top high schools
- Chagrin Falls High SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bentleyville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bentleyville 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 Bentleyville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Bentleyville
Is Bentleyville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bentleyville ranks 263rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, what local pay buys, and an educated workforce, and lowest on property taxes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bentleyville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $448,300. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $161,409 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Bentleyville safe?
Bentleyville is safer than 41% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $300 per resident a year.
Compare Bentleyville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bentleyville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bentleyville 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.
Bentleyville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bentleyville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bentleyville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bentleyville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bentleyville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bentleyville 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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