Best PlacesMedina Public Square Historic District, Medina, OH Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina, 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.

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Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina ranks 1,842nd of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and transit ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Cheap car insurance
Top 3%Fast internet
Top 5%Good schools
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina with other neighborhoods.

Where Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
  • School gradeA, better than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Crime safetyBetter than 91% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than 85% of neighborhoods

Where Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina ranks low

  • TransitBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • BikingBetter than only 15% of neighborhoods
  • Low property taxBetter than only 24% of neighborhoods
  • Local economyBetter than only 25% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 25% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $62,725, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$50,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,165
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $178,406 home
Median rent
$1,053
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$910
Property tax$196
Homeowners insurance$59

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 Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina's effective rate of 1.32%, 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 6 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 Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
39
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
19%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.2
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1819%
18 to 3425%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6419%
65 and older19%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina.


Who works in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina, and how

Work in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
8.0%
above the national average
Job growth
+3.6%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing17%
Health care & social17%
Hospitality & food15%
Retail trade15%
Professional & technical6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina has more restaurants and bars per resident than 84% of neighborhoods and more parkland per resident than 90% of neighborhoods. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
61
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 127.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 84% of neighborhoods
Coffee shops
9
about 18.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 87% of neighborhoods
Parkland
80 acres
about 16.7 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 90% of neighborhoods

What the weather is like in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina, month by month

Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina sees roughly 72 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January37°28°19°
April63°49°37°
July85°73°61°
October67°54°43°

Flying in and out of Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

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.

Nearest airport
CLE
Cleveland-Hopkins International, about 19 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
46th-busiest in the US, 72 nonstop destinations
Average drive
27 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

Schools across Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina average an A, better than 96% of neighborhoods.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina 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 Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina

Is Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina ranks 1,842nd of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, fast internet, and good schools, and lowest on transit and biking. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $178,406. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $62,725 median income, cost of living beats 41% of neighborhoods.

Is Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina safe?

Yes, Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina is safer than 91% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $213 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 Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina 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.

Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Medina Public Square Historic District, Medina 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.