Best PlacesPottery Addition, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pottery Addition, 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.
Pottery Addition ranks 33,221st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on few empty homes by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Pottery Addition
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.
Pottery Addition's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pottery Addition ranks high
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
- School gradeA−, better than 88% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 88% of towns
- Short commute21.2 minutes each way, better than 83% of towns
Where Pottery Addition ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 5% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 14% of towns
- Household income$51,250 median, better than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pottery Addition
A household needs to earn about $33,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pottery Addition home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $51,250, 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 Pottery Addition's effective rate of 0.88%, 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 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Pottery Addition
Pottery Addition runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Pottery Addition.
Who works in Pottery Addition, and how
Work in Pottery Addition centers on professional & technical and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 2%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Pottery Addition
Pottery Addition has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Pottery Addition and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pottery Addition, month by month
Pottery Addition sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 23° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 86° | 74° | 64° |
| October | 69° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Pottery Addition
Pittsburgh International sits about 22 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.8 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Pottery Addition
Schools across Pottery Addition average an A−, better than 88% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Wells AcademyA+ · 98% proficient
- Stanton Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Top middle schools
- Harding Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Edison Jr. High SchoolA− · 58% proficient
Top high schools
- Steubenville High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Edison High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pottery Addition school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pottery Addition 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 Pottery Addition against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Pottery Addition
Is Pottery Addition a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pottery Addition ranks 33,221st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on few empty homes, cheap car insurance, and good schools, and lowest on noise and a weak job market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pottery Addition expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $124,400. The overall cost of living runs about 17% below the national average. Set against a $51,250 median income, cost of living beats 16% of towns.
Is Pottery Addition safe?
Pottery Addition is safer than 27% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $349 per resident a year.
Compare Pottery Addition with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pottery Addition. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pottery Addition 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.
Pottery Addition detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pottery Addition: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pottery Addition: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pottery Addition: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pottery Addition: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pottery Addition 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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