Best PlacesOlive Green, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Olive Green, 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.
Olive Green ranks 1,540th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Olive Green
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.
Olive Green's strengths and weaknesses
Where Olive Green ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 95% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 94% of towns
- Household income$119,465 median, better than 93% of towns
Where Olive Green ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 32% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 35% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 38% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Olive Green
A household needs to earn about $132,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Olive Green home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $119,465; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Olive Green's effective rate of 0.82%, 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 Olive Green
Olive Green runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Olive Green.
Who works in Olive Green, and how
Work in Olive Green centers on manufacturing and public administration. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 75%
- Work from home 25%
- Transit, walk, or bike 0%
Life in Olive Green
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Olive Green.
What the weather is like in Olive Green, month by month
Olive Green sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 29° | 23° |
| April | 62° | 51° | 41° |
| July | 84° | 74° | 65° |
| October | 66° | 54° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Olive Green
John Glenn Columbus International sits about 22 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 94 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Olive Green
Schools across Olive Green average an A, better than 92% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Prairie Run Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- General Rosecrans ElementaryA · 63% proficient
- Buckeye Valley East Elementary SchoolA− · 57% proficient
Top middle schools
- Big Walnut Intermediate SchoolA+ · 74% proficient
- Buckeye Valley Local Middle SchoolA · 61% proficient
Top high schools
- Big Walnut High SchoolA · 72% proficient
- Buckeye Valley Local High SchoolA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Olive Green school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Olive Green 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 Olive Green against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Olive Green
Is Olive Green a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Olive Green ranks 1,540th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, what local pay buys, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on childcare costs and walkability. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Olive Green expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $503,640. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $119,465 median income, cost of living beats 95% of towns.
Is Olive Green safe?
Yes, Olive Green is safer than 92% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $151 per resident a year.
Compare Olive Green with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Olive Green. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Olive Green 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.
Olive Green detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Olive Green: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Olive Green: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Olive Green: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Olive Green: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Olive Green 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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