Best PlacesToledo, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Toledo metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Toledo ranks 198th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on property taxes and crime. It does better on cheap car insurance, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in the Toledo metro
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.
The best areas in Toledo
The towns and districts of the Toledo metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Sylvania
Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and more adults hold degrees.
Waterville, Whitehouse & Wauseon
Crime runs lower and more residents vote.
Bowling Green & Perrysburg
Biking is better, though tree cover is thinner.
Holland & Swanton
Health care is easier to reach, though streets are more car-dependent.
Pemberville, Luckey & Fostoria
Prices have run up less, though fewer households have young kids.
Downtown Toledo
Scores close to Pemberville, Luckey & Fostoria, except that schools score lower here.
Maumee
Scores close to Downtown Toledo, except that heat risk is higher here.
Oregon, Northwood & Rossford
More homes sit empty and health outcomes score lower.
Toledo shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 1% of the country and others in the top 1%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Toledo's strengths and weaknesses
Toledo lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Cheap car insurance, fast internet, and good schools carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Property taxes, crime, and a weak job market hold the score down. Cost swings more from one part of Toledo to another than it does between Toledo and its neighbors, which the map below shows.
Where Toledo ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of metro areas
- Internet speedBetter than 93% of metro areas
- School gradeB+, better than 92% of metro areas
- Disaster safetyBetter than 86% of metro areas
- Short commute20.8 minutes each way, better than 78% of metro areas
Where Toledo ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 11% of metro areas
- Crime safetyBetter than only 13% of metro areas
- Local economyBetter than only 14% of metro areas
- QuietBetter than only 14% of metro areas
- Cheap childcare$1,169 a month, better than only 23% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Toledo
A household needs to earn about $56,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Toledo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $76,519, 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 Toledo's effective rate of 1.55%, 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 Toledo
Toledo'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 Toledo.
Who works in Toledo, and how
Work in Toledo 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 86%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Toledo
Toledo has more restaurants and bars per resident than 69% of metro areas and more parkland per resident than 90% of metro areas. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Toledo and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Toledo growing, and who is moving in?
Toledo has lost about 1% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Cleveland, OH.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Toledo go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Toledo, month by month
Toledo sees roughly 75 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 29° | 21° |
| April | 63° | 50° | 38° |
| July | 87° | 76° | 65° |
| October | 69° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Toledo
The nearest airport, Eugene F Kranz Toledo Express, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Detroit Metro Wayne County, about 40 miles away.
The best schools in and around Toledo
Schools across Toledo average a B+, better than 92% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Ottawa Hills Elementary SchoolA+ · 91% proficient
- Whitehouse Primary SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Fort Meigs Elementary SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fallen Timbers Middle SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
- Perrysburg Junior High SchoolA+ · 84% proficient
- Hull Prairie Intermediate SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
Top high schools
- Ottawa Hills High SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
- Eastwood I High SchoolA+ · 82% proficient
- Perrysburg High SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Toledo school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Toledo 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 Toledo against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Toledo suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 10% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Toledo
Is Toledo a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Toledo ranks 198th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, fast internet, and good schools, and lowest on property taxes and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Toledo expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $195,811. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $76,519 median income, cost of living beats 42% of metro areas.
Is Toledo safe?
Toledo is safer than 13% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $426 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Toledo?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 37 with lows near 21. That works out to about 75 pleasant days a year, more than 32% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Toledo?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Sylvania, Waterville, Whitehouse & Wauseon, and Bowling Green & Perrysburg. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Toledo good for families?
Schools beat 92% of metro areas, crime safety beats 13%, and childcare runs $1,169 a month.
Is Toledo good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 42% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 93% of metro areas. About 10% of workers already work from home.
Compare Toledo with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Toledo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Toledo 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.
Toledo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Toledo: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Toledo: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Toledo: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Toledo: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Toledo 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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