Best PlacesVilla Hills, KY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Villa Hills, 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.
Villa Hills ranks 4,417th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Villa Hills
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.
Villa Hills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Villa Hills ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Household income$128,199 median, better than 95% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 94% of towns
- TransitBetter than 91% of towns
Where Villa Hills ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 52 pleasant days a year, better than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 15% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 16% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 17% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 26% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Villa Hills
A household needs to earn about $97,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Villa Hills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $128,199, 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 Villa Hills' effective rate of 1.08%, 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 Villa Hills
Villa Hills's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Villa Hills.
Who works in Villa Hills, and how
Work in Villa Hills centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Villa Hills
Villa Hills has more restaurants and bars per resident than 93% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Villa Hills and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Villa Hills, month by month
Villa Hills sees roughly 52 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 32° | 23° |
| April | 68° | 55° | 43° |
| July | 88° | 77° | 67° |
| October | 71° | 59° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Villa Hills
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 4 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 99 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Villa Hills
Schools across Villa Hills average a B−, better than 63% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Beechwood Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
- Delshire Elementary SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- River Ridge Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
Top middle schools
- Delhi Middle SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Tichenor Middle SchoolD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- Beechwood High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Dixie Heights High SchoolC+ · 39% proficient
- Lloyd High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Villa Hills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Villa Hills 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 Villa Hills against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Villa Hills
Is Villa Hills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Villa Hills ranks 4,417th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, health care access, and high incomes, and lowest on the weather and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Villa Hills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $355,812. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $128,199 median income, cost of living beats 97% of towns.
Is Villa Hills safe?
Villa Hills is safer than 51% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $270 per resident a year.
Compare Villa Hills with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Villa Hills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Villa Hills 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.
Villa Hills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Villa Hills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Villa Hills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Villa Hills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Villa Hills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Villa Hills 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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