Best PlacesFelicity, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Felicity, 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.
Felicity ranks 37,914th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Felicity
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.
Felicity's strengths and weaknesses
Where Felicity ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 86% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 81% of towns
- School gradeB+, better than 78% of towns
- BikingBetter than 68% of towns
Where Felicity ranks low
- Short commute44.4 minutes each way, better than only 2% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,209 a month, better than only 13% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 14% of towns
- Household income$52,933 median, better than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Felicity
A household needs to earn about $51,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Felicity home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $52,933, 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 Felicity's effective rate of 0.87%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Felicity
Felicity's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Felicity.
Who works in Felicity, and how
Work in Felicity centers on manufacturing and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Felicity
Felicity has more restaurants and bars per resident than 96% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Felicity and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Felicity, month by month
Felicity sees roughly 78 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 33° | 27° |
| April | 66° | 55° | 46° |
| July | 86° | 76° | 67° |
| October | 69° | 58° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Felicity
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 34 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 Felicity
Schools across Felicity average a B+, better than 78% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Felicity-franklin Local Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary SchoolA− · 58% proficient
- Hamersville Elementary SchoolA− · 56% proficient
Top middle schools
- Felicity-franklin Local Middle SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle SchoolB+ · 50% proficient
Top high schools
- Western Brown High SchoolB · 49% proficient
- Ripley-union-lewis-huntington High SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Felicity-franklin Local High SchoolB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Felicity school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Felicity 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 Felicity against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Felicity
Is Felicity a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Felicity ranks 37,914th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, walkability, and low taxes, and lowest on long commutes and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Felicity expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $193,634. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $52,933 median income, cost of living beats 14% of towns.
Is Felicity safe?
Felicity is safer than 23% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $380 per resident a year.
Compare Felicity with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Felicity. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Felicity 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.
Felicity detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Felicity: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Felicity: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Felicity: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Felicity: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Felicity 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.