Best PlacesStruthers, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Struthers, 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.
Struthers ranks 22,071st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Struthers
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.
Struthers' strengths and weaknesses
Where Struthers ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 96% of towns
- BikingBetter than 95% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 95% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
Where Struthers ranks low
- Crime safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 15% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 19% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 22% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 23% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Struthers
A household needs to earn about $27,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Struthers home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $61,179, 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 Struthers' effective rate of 1.14%, 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 3 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Struthers
Struthers's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Struthers.
Who works in Struthers, and how
Work in Struthers centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Struthers
Struthers has more parkland per resident than 97% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Struthers and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Struthers, month by month
Struthers sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 28° | 20° |
| April | 64° | 50° | 38° |
| July | 86° | 73° | 61° |
| October | 67° | 54° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Struthers
Pittsburgh International sits about 43 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 Struthers
Schools across Struthers average a B, better than 70% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Mckinley Elementary SchoolA · 71% proficient
- Lowellville Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Struthers Elementary SchoolB · 48% proficient
Top middle schools
- Struthers Middle SchoolA− · 53% proficient
Top high schools
- Poland Seminary High SchoolA · 73% proficient
- Lowellville High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- Struthers High SchoolB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Struthers school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Struthers 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 Struthers against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Struthers
Is Struthers a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Struthers ranks 22,071st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, transit, and biking, and lowest on crime and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Struthers expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $97,556. The overall cost of living runs about 18% below the national average. Set against a $61,179 median income, cost of living beats 34% of towns.
Is Struthers safe?
Struthers is safer than 15% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $438 per resident a year.
Compare Struthers with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Struthers. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Struthers 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.
Struthers detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Struthers: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Struthers: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Struthers: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Struthers: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Struthers 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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