Best PlacesBrook Park, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Brook Park, 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.
Brook Park ranks 16,504th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Brook Park
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.
Brook Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Brook Park ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 97% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 96% of towns
- BikingBetter than 96% of towns
- TransitBetter than 95% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 93% of towns
Where Brook Park ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 3% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 62 pleasant days a year, better than only 12% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 21% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Brook Park
A household needs to earn about $49,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Brook Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $73,244, 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 Brook Park's effective rate of 1.57%, 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 Brook Park
Brook Park 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 Brook Park.
Who works in Brook Park, and how
Work in Brook Park 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 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Brook Park
Brook Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 65% of towns and more parkland per resident than 97% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Brook Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Brook Park, month by month
Brook Park sees roughly 62 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 30° | 23° |
| April | 63° | 50° | 40° |
| July | 86° | 76° | 65° |
| October | 69° | 57° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Brook Park
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 2 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 Brook Park
Schools across Brook Park average a B+, better than 79% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Grindstone Elementary SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Brook Park Elementary SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Parma Park Elementary SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Olmsted Falls Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Lewis F Mayer Middle SchoolA · 61% proficient
- Berea-midpark Middle SchoolB+ · 50% proficient
Top high schools
- Olmsted Falls High SchoolA · 71% proficient
- Fairview High SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Berea-midpark High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Brook Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Brook Park 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 Brook Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Brook Park
Is Brook Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Brook Park ranks 16,504th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low disaster risk, cell coverage, and biking, and lowest on noise and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Brook Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $168,724. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $73,244 median income, cost of living beats 58% of towns.
Is Brook Park safe?
Brook Park is safer than 21% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $390 per resident a year.
Compare Brook Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Brook Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Brook Park 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.
Brook Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Brook Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Brook Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Brook Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Brook Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Brook Park 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.