Best PlacesGranger, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Granger, 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.
Granger ranks 630th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Granger
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.
Granger's strengths and weaknesses
Where Granger ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 98% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 97% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 96% of towns
Where Granger ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 8% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 29% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 33% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Granger
A household needs to earn about $116,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Granger home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $125,342, 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 Granger's effective rate of 0.96%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Granger
Granger runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Granger.
Who works in Granger, and how
Work in Granger centers on manufacturing 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 75%
- Work from home 23%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Granger
Granger has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Granger and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Granger, month by month
Granger sees roughly 99 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 39, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39° | 30° | 22° |
| April | 65° | 52° | 40° |
| July | 88° | 76° | 64° |
| October | 69° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Granger
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 19 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.9 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Granger
Schools across Granger average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Granger Elementary SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Sidney Fenn Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
Top middle schools
- Highland Middle SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
- Claggett Middle SchoolA+ · 69% proficient
Top high schools
- Highland High SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Medina High SchoolA · 71% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Granger school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Granger 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 Granger against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Granger
Is Granger a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Granger ranks 630th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, civic engagement, and health care access, and lowest on noise and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Granger expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $435,921. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $125,342 median income, cost of living beats 97% of towns.
Is Granger safe?
Yes, Granger is safer than 89% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $164 per resident a year.
Compare Granger with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Granger. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Granger 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.
Granger detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Granger: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Granger: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Granger: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Granger: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Granger 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.