Best PlacesOhioville, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Ohioville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Ohioville ranks 8,468th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Ohioville
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.
Ohioville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Ohioville ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 96% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 94% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 93% of towns
Where Ohioville ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 8% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,308 a month, better than only 10% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Ohioville
A household needs to earn about $130,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Ohioville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $114,407, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Ohioville's effective rate of 2.08%, 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 Ohioville
Ohioville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Ohioville.
Who works in Ohioville, and how
Work in Ohioville centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 70%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Ohioville
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Ohioville.
What the weather is like in Ohioville, month by month
Ohioville sees roughly 64 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 30° | 20° |
| April | 64° | 50° | 38° |
| July | 88° | 75° | 63° |
| October | 68° | 55° | 42° |
Flying in and out of Ohioville
The nearest airport, New York Stewart International, is about 17 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Laguardia, about 68 miles away.
The best schools in and around Ohioville
Schools across Ohioville average an A, better than 94% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Highland Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
Top middle schools
- New Paltz Middle SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- Highland Middle SchoolB+ · 50% proficient
Top high schools
- New Paltz Senior High SchoolA+ · 97% proficient
- Highland High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Ohioville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Ohioville 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 Ohioville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Ohioville
Is Ohioville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Ohioville ranks 8,468th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, big-city access, and an educated workforce, and lowest on property taxes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Ohioville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $421,544. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $114,407 median income, cost of living beats 88% of towns.
Is Ohioville safe?
Yes, Ohioville is safer than 56% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $288 per resident a year.
Compare Ohioville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Ohioville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Ohioville 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.
Ohioville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Ohioville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Ohioville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Ohioville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Ohioville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Ohioville 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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