Best PlacesLagrange, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lagrange, 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.
Lagrange ranks 6,274th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Lagrange
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.
Lagrange's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lagrange ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 89% of towns
- School gradeA−, better than 88% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 86% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 85% of towns
Where Lagrange ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 16% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 75 pleasant days a year, better than only 36% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lagrange
A household needs to earn about $74,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lagrange home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $94,610, 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 Lagrange's effective rate of 1.29%, 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 Lagrange
Lagrange runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Lagrange.
Who works in Lagrange, and how
Work in Lagrange centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 90%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Lagrange
Lagrange has more parkland per resident than 95% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Lagrange and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Lagrange, month by month
Lagrange sees roughly 75 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 28° | 21° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 38° |
| July | 85° | 74° | 63° |
| October | 68° | 56° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Lagrange
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 18 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 Lagrange
Schools across Lagrange average an A−, better than 88% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Mapleton Elementary SchoolA · 72% proficient
- Firelands Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Black River Education Center Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
Top middle schools
- Firelands Middle SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Columbia Middle SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Sailorway Middle SchoolA · 63% proficient
Top high schools
- Keystone High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
- Firelands High SchoolB+ · 58% proficient
- Midview High SchoolB+ · 57% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lagrange school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lagrange 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 Lagrange against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lagrange
Is Lagrange a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lagrange ranks 6,274th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, low disaster risk, and good schools, 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 Lagrange expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $263,978. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $94,610 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Lagrange safe?
Yes, Lagrange is safer than 83% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $190 per resident a year.
Compare Lagrange with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lagrange. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lagrange 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.
Lagrange detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lagrange: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lagrange: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lagrange: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lagrange: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lagrange 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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