Best PlacesCurtice, OH Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Curtice, 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.

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Curtice ranks 5,094th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Curtice

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Curtice 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.

Curtice's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Cheap car insurance
Top 10%Good schools
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Curtice with other towns.

Where Curtice ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
  • School gradeA, better than 92% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 88% of towns
  • Household income$102,043 median, better than 86% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 82% of towns

Where Curtice ranks low

  • Air qualityBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than only 15% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$1,113 a month, better than only 15% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 19% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Curtice

A household needs to earn about $63,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Curtice home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $102,043, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$63,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,481
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $226,412 home
Median rent
$1,313
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,154
Property tax$251
Homeowners insurance$75

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 Curtice's 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Curtice

Curtice runs older than the country.

Median age
49
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.5
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3416%
35 to 4921%
50 to 6423%
65 and older22%

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


Who works in Curtice, and how

Work in Curtice centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.1%
below the national average
Job growth
−2.2%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing17%
Health care & social16%
Construction12%
Retail trade10%
Education10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in Curtice

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


What the weather is like in Curtice, month by month

Curtice sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August 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°29°21°
April63°50°38°
July87°76°65°
October69°56°46°

Flying in and out of Curtice

The nearest airport, Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express, is about 25 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Detroit Metro Wayne County, about 40 miles away.

Nearest airport
TOL
Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express, about 25 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
262nd-busiest in the US, 7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
35 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Curtice

Schools across Curtice average an A, better than 92% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

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


Curtice 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 Curtice against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Curtice

Is Curtice a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Curtice ranks 5,094th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, good schools, and what local pay buys, and lowest on air quality and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Curtice expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $226,412. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $102,043 median income, cost of living beats 88% of towns.

Is Curtice safe?

Yes, Curtice is safer than 78% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $213 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 Curtice. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Curtice 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.

Curtice detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Curtice 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.