Best PlacesMansfield, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Mansfield metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Mansfield ranks 249th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on health outcomes and low incomes. It does better on cheap car insurance, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in the Mansfield metro
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.
The best areas in Mansfield
The towns and districts of the Mansfield metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Lexington
Crime runs lower, fewer homes sit empty, and it is quieter.
Shelby
More households have young kids, though tree cover is thinner.
Ontario
More residents vote and health care is easier to reach.
Bellville, Lucas & Butler
Prices have run up less, though advertised internet is slower.
Downtown Mansfield
Local pay stretches less far and incomes run lower.
Mansfield shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 2% of the country and others in the top 9%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Mansfield's strengths and weaknesses
Mansfield lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Cheap car insurance, good schools, and fast internet carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Health outcomes, low incomes, and biking hold the score down. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.
Where Mansfield ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 96% of metro areas
- School gradeB+, better than 90% of metro areas
- Internet speedBetter than 84% of metro areas
- Disaster safetyBetter than 78% of metro areas
- Short commute21.8 minutes each way, better than 68% of metro areas
Where Mansfield ranks low
- Health outlookBetter than only 6% of metro areas
- Household income$64,621 median, better than only 10% of metro areas
- BikingBetter than only 10% of metro areas
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 12% of metro areas
- Local economyBetter than only 13% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Mansfield
A household needs to earn about $45,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mansfield home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $64,621, 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 Mansfield's effective rate of 1.19%, 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 Mansfield
Mansfield's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mansfield.
Who works in Mansfield, and how
Work in Mansfield centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 90%
- Work from home 7%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Mansfield
Mansfield has fewer places to eat and drink per resident than most metro areas and less parkland per resident than most metro areas. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Mansfield and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Mansfield growing, and who is moving in?
Mansfield has grown about 2% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Cleveland, OH.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Mansfield go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Mansfield, month by month
Mansfield sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 28° | 20° |
| April | 64° | 50° | 38° |
| July | 86° | 74° | 63° |
| October | 67° | 55° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Mansfield
John Glenn Columbus International sits about 56 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 94 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Mansfield
Schools across Mansfield average a B+, better than 90% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Central Elementary SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Mansfield Spanish Immersion SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Taft Intermediate SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
Top middle schools
- Eastern Elementary SchoolA+ · 74% proficient
- Lexington Junior High SchoolA+ · 72% proficient
- Ontario Middle SchoolA+ · 68% proficient
Top high schools
- Lexington High SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Ashland High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
- Ontario High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mansfield school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mansfield 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 Mansfield against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Mansfield suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 7% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Mansfield
Is Mansfield a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mansfield ranks 249th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, good schools, and fast internet, and lowest on health outcomes and low incomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mansfield expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $163,110. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $64,621 median income, cost of living beats 14% of metro areas.
Is Mansfield safe?
Mansfield is safer than 42% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $328 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Mansfield?
July highs average about 86 degrees, and January highs near 37 with lows near 20. That works out to about 69 pleasant days a year, more than 20% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Mansfield?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Lexington, Shelby, and Ontario. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Mansfield good for families?
Schools beat 90% of metro areas, crime safety beats 42%, and childcare runs $764 a month.
Is Mansfield good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 14% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 84% of metro areas. About 7% of workers already work from home.
Compare Mansfield with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mansfield. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mansfield 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.
Mansfield detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mansfield: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mansfield: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mansfield: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mansfield: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mansfield 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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