Best PlacesPainesville, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Painesville, 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.
Painesville ranks 878th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and health outcomes rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Painesville
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.
Painesville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Painesville ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 96% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 95% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than 93% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 80% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 73% of cities
Where Painesville ranks low
- Health outlookBetter than only 18% of cities
- QuietBetter than only 20% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than only 21% of cities
- Local economyBetter than only 22% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than only 25% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Painesville
A household needs to earn about $65,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Painesville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $88,599, 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 Painesville's effective rate of 1.49%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Painesville
Painesville's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Painesville.
Who works in Painesville, and how
Work in Painesville centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Painesville
Painesville has more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Painesville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Painesville, month by month
Painesville sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 30° | 23° |
| April | 58° | 47° | 36° |
| July | 82° | 72° | 62° |
| October | 66° | 55° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Painesville
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 38 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.9 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Painesville
Schools across Painesville average a B, better than 71% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
- Parkside Elementary SchoolA+ · 77% proficient
- Melridge Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
Top middle schools
- Perry Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Memorial Middle SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Henry F Lamuth Middle SchoolA · 59% proficient
Top high schools
- Istem Geauga Early College High SchoolA · 78% proficient
- Chardon High SchoolA · 73% proficient
- Perry High SchoolA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Painesville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Painesville 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 Painesville against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Painesville suits
Common questions about living in Painesville
Is Painesville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Painesville ranks 878th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on low disaster risk, cheap car insurance, and heat safety, and lowest on health outcomes and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Painesville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $228,041. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $88,599 median income, cost of living beats 63% of cities.
Is Painesville safe?
Painesville is safer than 51% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $286 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Painesville?
July highs average about 82 degrees, and January highs near 38 with lows near 23. That works out to about 81 pleasant days a year, more than 46% of cities.
Is Painesville good for families?
Schools beat 71% of cities, crime safety beats 51%, and childcare runs $1,273 a month.
Compare Painesville with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Painesville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Painesville 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.
Painesville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Painesville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Painesville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Painesville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Painesville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Painesville 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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