Best PlacesLuckey, OH Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Luckey, 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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Luckey ranks 5,513th 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.

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The best neighborhoods in Luckey

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Luckey 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.

Luckey's strengths and weaknesses

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

Where Luckey ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
  • School gradeA+, better than 98% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 92% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than 85% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 84% of towns

Where Luckey ranks low

  • QuietBetter than only 11% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 24% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$959 a month, better than only 28% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than only 29% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Luckey

A household needs to earn about $54,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Luckey home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $85,188, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$54,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,262
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $207,277 home
Median rent
$1,326
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,057
Property tax$136
Homeowners insurance$69

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 Luckey's effective rate of 0.79%, 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 5 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 Luckey

Luckey runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
50
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
25%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1815%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4921%
50 to 6421%
65 and older25%

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


Who works in Luckey, and how

Work in Luckey centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
7%
below the national average
Unemployment
0.2%
below the national average
Job growth
+1.1%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing22%
Retail trade19%
Construction14%
Education9%
Health care & social8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 93%
  • Work from home 7%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 0%

Life in Luckey

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


What the weather is like in Luckey, month by month

Luckey 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 Luckey

The nearest airport, Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express, is about 20 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Detroit Metro Wayne County, about 53 miles away.

Nearest airport
TOL
Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express, about 20 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
262nd-busiest in the US, 7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
28 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Luckey

Schools across Luckey average an A+, better than 98% 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 Luckey school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Luckey 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 Luckey against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Luckey

Is Luckey a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Luckey ranks 5,513th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, good schools, and a stable housing market, and lowest on noise and tree cover. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Luckey expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $207,277. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $85,188 median income, cost of living beats 66% of towns.

Is Luckey safe?

Yes, Luckey is safer than 62% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $237 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 Luckey. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Luckey 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.

Luckey detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Luckey 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.