Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Because it does well by almost any measure. Lakeside Park earns an A+, 8th among Kentucky's 138 graded towns. The median household earns $129K, its schools rank ahead of 90% of Kentucky towns, and natural-hazard risk is low. Its lowest mark, a B−, is in cost of living. 54% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Lakeside Park, above both Kentucky’s towns (26%) and U.S. towns (29%). Only 2 of the 142 Kentucky towns we compare have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Lakeside Park. Dixie Highway Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Lakeside Park beats most towns.
Where Lakeside Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Lakeside Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 761 in 1940, 2,841 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper and 4 maps from 1914 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lakeside Park. Close and well known come first.
5 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
5 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw29 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
Big draw26 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
6 mi Stadium & arenaTQL Stadium
7 mi Stadium & arenaNippert StadiumPaycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ark Encounter: OlinEJ, CC0 · Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lakeside Park, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Lakeside Park.
Lakeside Park has less tooth loss than most of Kentucky, sends most of its workers to Cincinnati and beyond and has household incomes well above the Kentucky norm.
The median property tax bill is $3,156, against $1,544 across Kentucky, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Lakeside Park home is worth about $359,000, up 3.7% in a year, 55% above the Kentucky typical home. 83% of households own their home in Lakeside Park.
| Lakeside Park | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 83% | 59% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,154 a month | $930 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Lakeside Park has 189 jobs for its 1,394 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
0.6% of Lakeside Park working residents work locally. Jobs based in Lakeside Park fell to 189 in 2023, 61 fewer than in 2013. The average trip to work in Lakeside Park is 21 minutes.
| Lakeside Park | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 15% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 75% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its widest gap with Kentucky is tooth loss: 11.2% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 18.9% statewide. Against the 4,688 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lakeside Park’s, it is less healthy than 71%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Lakeside Park beats the Kentucky average on 16 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 0.
| Lakeside Park | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 39% | 35% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Lakeside Park | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.2% | 18.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.9% | 15.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lakeside Park has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 23 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
14 within 15 miles of the center of Lakeside Park
About 4 of every 100 Lakeside Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
City in Kentucky, United States
Lakeside Park is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 2,841. It is a suburb in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
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2 towns share a border with Lakeside Park.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Park | #8 | A+ | B− | — | A | B+ |
| Fort Mitchell | #11 | A+ | C | A− | A+ | A− |
| Crestview Hills | #7 | A+ | B− | — | A | A− |
Lakeside Park and Crestview Hills report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lakeside Park with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Lakeside Park grades A+ overall, better than 97% of U.S. towns and #8 of 138 in Kentucky. It grades B+ for health and A for schools.
That is 4.4 years of the area's median household income ($81,120 across the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
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