Best PlacesValley View, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Valley View, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Valley View ranks 4,804th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Valley View
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.
Valley View's strengths and weaknesses
Where Valley View ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 96% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 96% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 96% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- TransitBetter than 94% of towns
Where Valley View ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 12% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 14% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Valley View
A household needs to earn about $79,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Valley View home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $110,365, 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 Valley View's effective rate of 1.45%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Valley View
Valley View runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Valley View.
Who works in Valley View, and how
Work in Valley View centers on manufacturing and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Valley View
Valley View has more restaurants and bars per resident than 93% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Valley View and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Valley View, month by month
Valley View sees roughly 73 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 39, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39° | 31° | 25° |
| April | 60° | 50° | 41° |
| July | 84° | 76° | 69° |
| October | 68° | 59° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Valley View
Cleveland-Hopkins International sits about 13 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 Valley View
Schools across Valley View average an A, better than 96% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Cuyahoga Hts Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
Top middle schools
- Cuyahoga Hts Middle SchoolA+ · 68% proficient
Top high schools
- Cuyahoga Hts High SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Valley View school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Valley View 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 Valley View against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Valley View
Is Valley View a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Valley View ranks 4,804th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, good schools, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on childcare costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Valley View expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $278,548. The overall cost of living runs about 18% below the national average. Set against a $110,365 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Valley View safe?
Valley View is safer than 15% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $482 per resident a year.
Compare Valley View with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Valley View. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Valley View 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.
Valley View detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Valley View: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Valley View: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Valley View: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Valley View: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Valley View 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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