Best PlacesCleves, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cleves, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Cleves ranks 9,243rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Cleves
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.
Cleves' strengths and weaknesses
Where Cleves ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 95% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 88% of towns
- School gradeA−, better than 86% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 81% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 79% of towns
Where Cleves ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 51 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 15% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 16% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Cleves
A household needs to earn about $74,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cleves home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $87,937, 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 Cleves' effective rate of 1.33%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Cleves
Cleves runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cleves.
Who works in Cleves, and how
Work in Cleves centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Cleves
Cleves has more parkland per resident than 94% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Cleves and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Cleves, month by month
Cleves sees roughly 51 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 32° | 23° |
| April | 68° | 55° | 43° |
| July | 88° | 77° | 67° |
| October | 71° | 59° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Cleves
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 10 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 99 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Cleves
Schools across Cleves average an A−, better than 86% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Charles W Springmyer Elementary SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Miami Whitewater Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
- Three Rivers ElementaryA− · 59% proficient
Top middle schools
- Bridgetown Middle SchoolA+ · 79% proficient
- Harrison Middle SchoolA · 62% proficient
- Taylor Middle SchoolA · 61% proficient
Top high schools
- William Henry Harrison High SchoolB+ · 56% proficient
- Taylor High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Oak Hills High SchoolB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cleves school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Cleves 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 Cleves against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Cleves
Is Cleves a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cleves ranks 9,243rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, cell coverage, and good schools, and lowest on the weather and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cleves expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $264,914. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $87,937 median income, cost of living beats 77% of towns.
Is Cleves safe?
Yes, Cleves is safer than 70% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $226 per resident a year.
Compare Cleves with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cleves. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cleves 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.
Cleves detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cleves: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cleves: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cleves: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cleves: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cleves 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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