Best PlacesMantua, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mantua, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Mantua ranks 10,943rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Mantua
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.
Mantua's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mantua ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 92% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 84% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 125 pleasant days a year, better than 83% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 83% of towns
Where Mantua ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 20% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 26% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 42% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mantua
A household needs to earn about $64,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mantua home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $74,800, 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 Mantua's effective rate of 0.84%, 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 Mantua
Mantua runs older than the country, 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 Mantua.
Who works in Mantua, and how
Work in Mantua centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Mantua
Mantua has more restaurants and bars per resident than 74% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Mantua and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mantua, month by month
Mantua sees roughly 125 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 28° | 22° |
| April | 60° | 48° | 39° |
| July | 83° | 72° | 63° |
| October | 64° | 53° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Mantua
The nearest airport, Akron-Canton Regional, is about 28 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Cleveland-Hopkins International, about 33 miles away.
The best schools in and around Mantua
Schools across Mantua average a B+, better than 80% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Kenston Intermediate SchoolA+ · 84% proficient
- Timmons Elementary SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- James A Garfield Elementary SchoolA · 66% proficient
Top middle schools
- Crestwood Intermediate SchoolA · 60% proficient
- James A Garfield Middle SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
Top high schools
- Kenston High SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
- James A Garfield High SchoolB+ · 58% proficient
- Crestwood High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mantua school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mantua 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 Mantua against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mantua
Is Mantua a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mantua ranks 10,943rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, heat safety, and low disaster risk, and lowest on childcare costs and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mantua expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $242,327. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $74,800 median income, cost of living beats 55% of towns.
Is Mantua safe?
Mantua is safer than 48% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $276 per resident a year.
Compare Mantua with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mantua. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mantua 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.
Mantua detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mantua: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mantua: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mantua: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mantua: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mantua 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.