Best PlacesBerkey, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Berkey, 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.
Berkey ranks 6,191st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and tree cover ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Berkey
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.
Berkey's strengths and weaknesses
Where Berkey ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 98% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 94% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 94% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 92% of towns
Where Berkey ranks low
- Tree shadeBetter than only 4% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 59 pleasant days a year, better than only 7% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,260 a month, better than only 12% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 15% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 20% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Berkey
A household needs to earn about $65,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Berkey home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $99,353, 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 Berkey's effective rate of 1.19%, 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 Berkey
Berkey runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Berkey.
Who works in Berkey, and how
Work in Berkey centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Berkey
Berkey has more restaurants and bars per resident than 97% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Berkey and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Berkey, month by month
Berkey sees roughly 59 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 28° | 20° |
| April | 64° | 50° | 38° |
| July | 88° | 75° | 64° |
| October | 69° | 56° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Berkey
The nearest airport, Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express, is about 8 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Detroit Metro Wayne County, about 43 miles away.
The best schools in and around Berkey
Schools across Berkey average an A, better than 94% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolA+ · 72% proficient
Top middle schools
- Evergreen Middle SchoolA · 65% proficient
Top high schools
- Evergreen High SchoolA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Berkey school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Berkey 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 Berkey against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Berkey
Is Berkey a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Berkey ranks 6,191st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, fast internet, and good schools, and lowest on tree cover and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Berkey expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $234,448. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $99,353 median income, cost of living beats 73% of towns.
Is Berkey safe?
Berkey is safer than 49% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $271 per resident a year.
Compare Berkey with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Berkey. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Berkey 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.
Berkey detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Berkey: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Berkey: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Berkey: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Berkey: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Berkey 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.