Best PlacesBushnell, OH Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Bushnell, 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.

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Bushnell ranks 24,810th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and a weak job market ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Bushnell

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Bushnell area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Bushnell's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%Cheap car insurance
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Bushnell with other towns.

Where Bushnell ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 96% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 87% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 84% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 82% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 82% of towns

Where Bushnell ranks low

  • Local economyBetter than only 3% of towns
  • BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Health outlookBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 18% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than only 19% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Bushnell

A household needs to earn about $46,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bushnell home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $73,854, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$46,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,067
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $165,500 home

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$844
Property tax$168
Homeowners insurance$55

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 Bushnell's effective rate of 1.22%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.


Who lives in Bushnell

Bushnell runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
43
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
19%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.0
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1830%
18 to 3410%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6422%
65 and older19%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bushnell.


Who works in Bushnell, and how

Work in Bushnell centers on other services and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
8.5%
above the national average
Job growth
−8.4%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Other services24%
Health care & social18%
Manufacturing15%
Retail trade15%
Transportation & warehousing9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 88%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Bushnell

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Bushnell.


What the weather is like in Bushnell, month by month

Bushnell sees roughly 91 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January37°28°21°
April61°48°37°
July84°72°61°
October66°55°44°

Flying in and out of Bushnell

The nearest airport, Erie International/Tom Ridge Field, is about 25 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Cleveland-Hopkins International, about 74 miles away.

Nearest airport
ERI
Erie International/Tom Ridge Field, about 25 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
259th-busiest in the US, 8 nonstop destinations
Average drive
36 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Bushnell

Schools across Bushnell average a B, better than 64% of towns.

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bushnell school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Bushnell 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 Bushnell against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Bushnell

Is Bushnell a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bushnell ranks 24,810th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, heat safety, and quiet, and lowest on a weak job market and biking. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Bushnell expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $165,500. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $73,854 median income, cost of living beats 51% of towns.

Is Bushnell safe?

Bushnell is safer than 18% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $400 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bushnell. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bushnell 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.

Bushnell detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Bushnell: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Bushnell: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Bushnell: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Bushnell: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Bushnell detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.