Best PlacesWintersville, OH Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Wintersville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Wintersville ranks 12,802nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Wintersville
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.
Wintersville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Wintersville ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 97% of towns
- TransitBetter than 94% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 93% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 91% of towns
Where Wintersville ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,273 a month, better than only 11% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 18% of towns
- Short commute31.5 minutes each way, better than only 26% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 27% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 31% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Wintersville
A household needs to earn about $37,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Wintersville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $71,865, 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 Wintersville's effective rate of 1.01%, 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 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Wintersville
Wintersville runs older than the country, 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 Wintersville.
Who works in Wintersville, and how
Work in Wintersville centers on education and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Wintersville
Wintersville has more restaurants and bars per resident than 81% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Wintersville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Wintersville, month by month
Wintersville sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 23° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 86° | 74° | 64° |
| October | 69° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Wintersville
Pittsburgh International sits about 26 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.8 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Wintersville
Schools across Wintersville average a B+, better than 83% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Pugliese Elementary WestA+ · 90% proficient
- John E Gregg Elementary SchoolA · 67% proficient
- Cross Creek ElementaryB− · 40% proficient
Top middle schools
- Harding Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- Edison Jr. High SchoolA− · 58% proficient
Top high schools
- Indian Creek High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- Edison High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Wintersville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Wintersville 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 Wintersville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Wintersville
Is Wintersville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Wintersville ranks 12,802nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, transit, and walkability, and lowest on childcare costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Wintersville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $136,631. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $71,865 median income, cost of living beats 58% of towns.
Is Wintersville safe?
Wintersville is safer than 40% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $301 per resident a year.
Compare Wintersville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Wintersville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Wintersville 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.
Wintersville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Wintersville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Wintersville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Wintersville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Wintersville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Wintersville 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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