Best PlacesMontville, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Montville, 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.
Montville ranks 9,782nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and a weak job market ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Montville
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.
Montville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Montville ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 95% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 94% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 93% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 93% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 90% of towns
Where Montville ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 22% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 25% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Montville
A household needs to earn about $69,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Montville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $83,864, 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 Montville's effective rate of 1.09%, 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 Montville
Montville 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 Montville.
Who works in Montville, and how
Work in Montville centers on manufacturing and professional & technical. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 90%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Montville
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Montville.
What the weather is like in Montville, month by month
Montville sees roughly 92 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 30° | 23° |
| April | 58° | 47° | 36° |
| July | 82° | 72° | 62° |
| October | 66° | 55° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Montville
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 44 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 Montville
Schools across Montville average an A, better than 93% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Parkside Elementary SchoolA+ · 77% proficient
- Cork Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Grand Valley Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Top middle schools
- Cardinal Middle SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- Grand Valley Middle SchoolB · 46% proficient
Top high schools
- Chardon High SchoolA · 73% proficient
- Cardinal High SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Grand Valley High SchoolB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Montville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Montville 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 Montville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Montville
Is Montville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Montville ranks 9,782nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, low disaster risk, and good schools, and lowest on a weak job market and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Montville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $254,180. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $83,864 median income, cost of living beats 75% of towns.
Is Montville safe?
Montville is safer than 13% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $482 per resident a year.
Compare Montville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Montville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Montville 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.
Montville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Montville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Montville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Montville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Montville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Montville 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.