Crescent SpringsKY
A town of 4,708, settled in 1891. Public schools that outperform most of Kentucky.
Trash day: TuesdayIs Crescent Springs a good place to live?
Crescent Springs grades A− overall, ranked 28th of 138 in Kentucky, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its schools rank ahead of 90% of Kentucky towns and it is healthier than 82% of U.S. towns. It also does better than most on incomes: the median household earns $83K. A typical home there costs about $318K, 3.9 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. On hazard risk, just 11 of Kentucky’s 238 towns do better. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. Among 142 Kentucky towns, just 10 have a lower January low than Crescent Springs.
What makes Crescent Springs stand out
Where Crescent Springs beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph School | K–8 | 409 |
| Widest gap | Crescent Springs | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 6.6% | 10.2% |
Crescent Springs has grown 25% since 2010
3,801 counted in 2010 and 4,319 in 2020; an estimated 4,708 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 10.2% since 2020, after 13.6% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Crescent Springs grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Crescent Springs is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Paycor Stadium and 50 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Crescent Springs. Close and well known come first.
4 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
5 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw26 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
Big draw30 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
5 mi Stadium & arenaTQL Stadium
6 mi Stadium & arenaNippert StadiumPhoto credits
Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ark Encounter: OlinEJ, CC0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Crescent Springs: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Crescent Springs, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Crescent Springs.
Crescent Springs sends many workers across the state line and has less COPD than most of Kentucky, but it has property taxes about twice the Kentucky norm.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 409 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within KY on state tests and graduation
For health, Crescent Springs earns an A−
Its widest gap with Kentucky is COPD: 6.6% of its 3,208 adults have COPD, against 10.2% statewide.
For adults in Crescent Springs, the share who sleep under 7 hours is 37%. Crescent Springs: just over one in ten adults report frequent physical distress, against 15% in Kentucky’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns. 15% of adults in Crescent Springs say their health is fair or poor; 20% get no exercise outside work.
| Crescent Springs | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 23% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 27% | 25% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| What stands out | Crescent Springs | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 6.6% | 10.2% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 2.6% | 4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
For cost of living, Crescent Springs earns a C+
The median property tax bill is $2,919, against $1,544 across Kentucky, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The share of households in Crescent Springs who live in a home they own: 58%. Homes here are typically worth about $318,000, about the same as a year ago, 38% above the Kentucky typical home. The midpoint rent for Crescent Springs comes to $926 a month, where Kentucky’s towns sit at $937 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. On the market here: a median 31 days to sell.
| Crescent Springs | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 58% | 59% | 73% |
| Median rent | $926 a month | $937 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Top of a low hazard risk in Crescent Springs: inland flooding
For Crescent Springs, the natural-hazard score from FEMA is 21 of 100. Flood insurance has paid one claim here since 2019. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 37% come from inland flooding and 28% from tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Crescent Springs has four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 23 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A job hub: Crescent Springs has 1.3 jobs for every working resident and draws in 2,558 commuters
26% of working residents cross a state line to work.
Just 2% of Crescent Springs’s working residents have a job in town. Crescent Springs: 5.4% of residents live below the poverty line. Half the trips to work are shorter than 6 miles. The typical journey to work for Crescent Springs comes to 20 minutes.
| Crescent Springs | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.4% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 15% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 14% | 10% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
1.2% of Crescent Springs is conserved land
Across 1 park or preserve: 0.8 miles of trail. Crescent Springs has one park or preserve, 9 acres in all. The trail density here is 0.5 miles per square mile.
| Crescent Springs | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.2% | 1.8% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. City Park | 0.3 mi | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Crescent Springs
Colleges nearby
14 within 15 miles of the center of Crescent Springs
About 6 of every 100 Crescent Springs residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Kentucky.
About Crescent Springs
City in Kentucky, United States
Crescent Springs is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 4,319 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 823 ft
- Area code
- 859
Crescent Springs’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Crescent Springs.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its A−; Villa Hills (A) is closest.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent Springs | #28 | A− | C+ | — | A | A− |
| Erlanger | #9 | A+ | A− | A− | A− | B |
| Villa Hills | #14 | A | C+ | B+ | A | A− |
| Fort Mitchell | #11 | A+ | C | A− | A+ | A− |
| Bromley | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Crescent Springs reports no FBI crime data of its own. Bromley isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Crescent Springs with a neighbor →
Questions about Crescent Springs
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Crescent Springs, KY a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Crescent Springs grades A− overall, better than 83% of U.S. towns and #28 of 138 in Kentucky. It grades A− for health and A for schools.
Is Crescent Springs, KY expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.