Best PlacesFort Wright, KY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fort Wright, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Fort Wright ranks 12,948th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Fort Wright
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.
Fort Wright's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fort Wright ranks high
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 95% of towns
- BikingBetter than 93% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 92% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 90% of towns
Where Fort Wright ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 56 pleasant days a year, better than only 3% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 14% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 23% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fort Wright
A household needs to earn about $88,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fort Wright home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $94,986, 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 Fort Wright's effective rate of 0.93%, 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 Fort Wright
Fort Wright'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 Fort Wright.
Who works in Fort Wright, and how
Work in Fort Wright centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Fort Wright
Fort Wright has more restaurants and bars per resident than 85% of towns and more parkland per resident than 94% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Fort Wright and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Fort Wright, month by month
Fort Wright sees roughly 56 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 Fort Wright
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 7 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 Fort Wright
Schools across Fort Wright average a B, better than 64% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Beechwood Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
- Ft Wright Elementary SchoolB · 49% proficient
- R C Hinsdale Elementary SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Woodland Middle SchoolC+ · 39% proficient
- Holmes Middle SchoolD− · 14% proficient
Top high schools
- Beechwood High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Scott High SchoolC · 31% proficient
- Ludlow High SchoolD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fort Wright school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Fort Wright 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 Fort Wright against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Fort Wright
Is Fort Wright a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fort Wright ranks 12,948th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, cell coverage, and biking, and lowest on the weather and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Fort Wright expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $331,632. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $94,986 median income, cost of living beats 82% of towns.
Is Fort Wright safe?
Fort Wright is safer than 16% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $435 per resident a year.
Compare Fort Wright with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fort Wright. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fort Wright 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.
Fort Wright detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fort Wright: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fort Wright: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fort Wright: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fort Wright: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fort Wright 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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