Best PlacesMount Healthy, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mount Healthy, 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.
Mount Healthy ranks 35,903rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Mount Healthy
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.
Mount Healthy's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mount Healthy ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 97% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 94% of towns
- BikingBetter than 94% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 91% of towns
Where Mount Healthy ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 6% of towns
- School gradeD, better than only 6% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 60 pleasant days a year, better than only 8% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mount Healthy
A household needs to earn about $46,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mount Healthy home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $60,410, 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 Mount Healthy's effective rate of 1.27%, 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 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Mount Healthy
Mount Healthy runs younger 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 Mount Healthy.
Who works in Mount Healthy, and how
Work in Mount Healthy centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, 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 Mount Healthy
Mount Healthy has more restaurants and bars per resident than 68% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Mount Healthy and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mount Healthy, month by month
Mount Healthy sees roughly 60 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 32° | 23° |
| April | 69° | 54° | 41° |
| July | 89° | 76° | 64° |
| October | 72° | 57° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Mount Healthy
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 14 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 Mount Healthy
Schools across Mount Healthy average a D, better than 6% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Mt. Healthy Preparatory And Fitness AcademyD · 20% proficient
- North College Hill Elementary SchoolD · 18% proficient
- Mt. Healthy South Elementary SchoolD− · 14% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mt Healthy Junior High SchoolD · 21% proficient
- North College Hill Middle SchoolD− · 18% proficient
Top high schools
- North College Hill High SchoolD · 22% proficient
- Mt Healthy High SchoolD · 21% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mount Healthy school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mount Healthy 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 Mount Healthy against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mount Healthy
Is Mount Healthy a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mount Healthy ranks 35,903rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, cell coverage, and walkability, and lowest on noise and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mount Healthy expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $165,090. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $60,410 median income, cost of living beats 32% of towns.
Is Mount Healthy safe?
Mount Healthy is safer than 9% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $526 per resident a year.
Compare Mount Healthy with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mount Healthy. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mount Healthy 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.
Mount Healthy detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mount Healthy: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mount Healthy: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mount Healthy: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mount Healthy: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mount Healthy 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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