Best PlacesWesterville, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Westerville, 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.
Westerville ranks 231st of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Westerville
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 Westerville
The parts of Westerville, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Far North
Sunbury Woods Center
Rocky-Fork Blacklick Accord & Northland
Scores across Westerville run from about the 29th to the 99th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Westerville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Westerville ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than 91% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 89% of cities
- School gradeA−, better than 88% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than 88% of cities
Where Westerville ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 58 pleasant days a year, better than only 5% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than only 13% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 34% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than only 36% of cities
- QuietBetter than only 40% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Westerville
A household needs to earn about $111,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Westerville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $118,510, 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 Westerville's effective rate of 1.73%, 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 Westerville
Westerville'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 Westerville.
Who works in Westerville, and how
Work in Westerville centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 68%
- Work from home 28%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Westerville
Westerville has more parkland per resident than 97% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Westerville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Westerville, month by month
Westerville sees roughly 58 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 22° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 88° | 76° | 65° |
| October | 70° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Westerville
John Glenn Columbus International sits about 9 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 Westerville
Schools across Westerville average an A−, better than 88% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Emerson Elementary SchoolA+ · 89% proficient
- Walnut Creek ElementaryA+ · 85% proficient
- Alcott Elementary SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
Top middle schools
- Phoenix Middle SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
- New Albany Intermediate SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
- New Albany Middle SchoolA+ · 84% proficient
Top high schools
- New Albany High SchoolA · 78% proficient
- Orange High SchoolA · 78% proficient
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolA · 73% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Westerville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Westerville 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 Westerville against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Westerville suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 89% of cities and 28% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Westerville
Is Westerville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Westerville ranks 231st of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, health care access, and what local pay buys, and lowest on the weather and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Westerville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $378,342. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $118,510 median income, cost of living beats 89% of cities.
Is Westerville safe?
Yes, Westerville is safer than 61% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $259 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Westerville?
July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 40 with lows near 22. That works out to about 58 pleasant days a year, more than 5% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Westerville?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Far North, Sunbury Woods Center, and Rocky-Fork Blacklick Accord & Northland. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Westerville with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Westerville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Westerville 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.
Westerville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Westerville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Westerville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Westerville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Westerville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Westerville 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.