Best PlacesOmar, WV Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Omar, 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.
Omar ranks 45,774th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Education levels pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on low property taxes.
The best neighborhoods in Omar
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.
Omar's strengths and weaknesses
Where Omar ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 90% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 88% of towns
- Short commute20.8 minutes each way, better than 85% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 78% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 76% of towns
Where Omar ranks low
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 2% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 3% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 4% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Omar
A household needs to earn about $21,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Omar home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $53,749, 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 Omar's effective rate of 0.38%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Omar
Omar 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 Omar.
Who works in Omar, and how
Work in Omar centers on health care & social and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Omar
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Omar.
What the weather is like in Omar, month by month
Omar sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs April through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 33° | 27° |
| April | 70° | 55° | 44° |
| July | 87° | 75° | 66° |
| October | 71° | 57° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Omar
The nearest airport, Raleigh County Memorial, is about 49 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is John Glenn Columbus International, about 162 miles away.
The best schools in and around Omar
Schools across Omar average a D+, better than 11% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Omar ElementaryC− · 30% proficient
- Gilbert Pk8D+ · 22% proficient
- Burch Pk8D · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Logan Middle SchoolD · 21% proficient
- Man Middle SchoolD · 19% proficient
Top high schools
- Man Senior High SchoolD · 22% proficient
- Logan Senior High SchoolD− · 17% proficient
- Mingo Central Comprehensive High SchoolD− · 17% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Omar school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Omar 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 Omar against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Omar
Is Omar a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Omar ranks 45,774th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, a stable housing market, and short commutes, and lowest on education levels and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Omar expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $86,128. The overall cost of living runs about 20% below the national average. Set against a $53,749 median income, cost of living beats 23% of towns.
Is Omar safe?
Omar is safer than 40% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $306 per resident a year.
Compare Omar with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Omar. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Omar 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.
Omar detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Omar: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Omar: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Omar: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Omar: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Omar 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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