Best PlacesMoores Fork, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Moores Fork, 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.
Moores Fork ranks 24,689th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and tree cover ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Moores Fork
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.
Moores Fork's strengths and weaknesses
Where Moores Fork ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 88% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 79% of towns
- School gradeB+, better than 77% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 73% of towns
Where Moores Fork ranks low
- Tree shadeBetter than only 11% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 63 pleasant days a year, better than only 13% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 13% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 16% of towns
- Cheap childcare$985 a month, better than only 26% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Moores Fork
A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Moores Fork home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $64,766, 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 Moores Fork's effective rate of 0.90%, 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 Moores Fork
Moores Fork runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Moores Fork.
Who works in Moores Fork, and how
Work in Moores Fork centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Moores Fork
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Moores Fork.
What the weather is like in Moores Fork, month by month
Moores Fork sees roughly 63 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 22° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 87° | 75° | 64° |
| October | 70° | 57° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Moores Fork
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 41 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 99 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Moores Fork
Schools across Moores Fork average a B+, better than 77% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Putman Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Blanchester Middle SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
Top high schools
- Blanchester High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Moores Fork school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Moores Fork 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 Moores Fork against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Moores Fork
Is Moores Fork a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Moores Fork ranks 24,689th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, cell coverage, and few empty homes, and lowest on tree cover and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Moores Fork expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $187,394. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $64,766 median income, cost of living beats 38% of towns.
Is Moores Fork safe?
Moores Fork is safer than 48% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $273 per resident a year.
Compare Moores Fork with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Moores Fork. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Moores Fork 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.
Moores Fork detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Moores Fork: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Moores Fork: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Moores Fork: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Moores Fork: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Moores Fork 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
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