Best PlacesThornville, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Thornville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Thornville ranks 8,181st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Thornville
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.
Thornville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Thornville ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 93% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 87% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 86% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 84% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 83% of towns
Where Thornville ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 61 pleasant days a year, better than only 9% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 14% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,034 a month, better than only 23% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 29% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 30% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Thornville
A household needs to earn about $85,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Thornville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $90,212, 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 Thornville's effective rate of 1.03%, 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 Thornville
Thornville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Thornville.
Who works in Thornville, and how
Work in Thornville centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Thornville
Thornville has more restaurants and bars per resident than 72% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Thornville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Thornville, month by month
Thornville sees roughly 61 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 31° | 22° |
| April | 67° | 53° | 40° |
| July | 88° | 75° | 63° |
| October | 71° | 56° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Thornville
John Glenn Columbus International sits about 26 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 Thornville
Schools across Thornville average a B+, better than 80% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Thornville Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- West Muskingum Elementary SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Glenford Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fairfield Union Rushville Middle SchoolA · 60% proficient
- Licking Valley Middle SchoolA− · 53% proficient
- West Muskingum Middle SchoolA− · 52% proficient
Top high schools
- Millersport Jr/sr High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Licking Valley High SchoolB+ · 57% proficient
- Sheridan High SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Thornville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Thornville 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 Thornville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Thornville
Is Thornville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Thornville ranks 8,181st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, low disaster risk, and civic engagement, and lowest on the weather and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Thornville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $315,743. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $90,212 median income, cost of living beats 78% of towns.
Is Thornville safe?
Yes, Thornville is safer than 78% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $200 per resident a year.
Compare Thornville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Thornville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Thornville 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.
Thornville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Thornville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Thornville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Thornville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Thornville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Thornville 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.