Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,188, settled in 1927.
Park Hills is one of the best-graded places in America: an A+, ranked 4th of 138 in Kentucky. Residents are healthier than 90% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, its public schools beat 90% of Kentucky towns on state tests and graduation, and crime is low: it reports less per resident than 77% of U.S. towns. Its lowest mark, a B−, is in cost of living. 66% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Park Hills, against 26% in Kentucky’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Only 2 of Kentucky’s 238 towns score higher on hazard risk. Park Hills Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Park Hills beats most towns.
Where Park Hills’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 Park Hills is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,275 in 1930, 3,162 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 2016 and 4 maps from 1914 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Park Hills. Close and well known come first.
2 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
3 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw24 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
3 mi Stadium & arenaTQL Stadium
5 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 · 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Park Hills, 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 Park Hills.
Park Hills carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Kentucky (mostly inland flooding), sends many workers across the state line and has less smoking than most of Kentucky.
Its widest gap with Kentucky is smoking: 10.4% of its 2,476 adults smoke cigarettes, against 18.5% statewide.
11% of Park Hills adults report frequent physical distress. Park Hills beats the Kentucky average on 17 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 14% of Park Hills adults report frequent mental distress.
| Park Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 18% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Park Hills | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer smokers | 10.4% | 18.5% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 6.1% | 10.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Catholic High School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 497 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within KY on state tests and graduation
The median property tax bill is $2,864, against $1,544 across Kentucky, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Park Hills home is worth about $347,000, down 5.2% in a year, 50% above the Kentucky typical home.
| Park Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 67% | 59% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,042 a month | $930 a month | $1,185 a month |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 98% of Kentucky towns, with expected losses of about $199 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Park Hills’ FEMA risk score is 9 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Reported crimes fell from 21 to 11 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings. Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2025, 0.6 per 1,000 residents.
The property crime rate in Park Hills is 2.8 per 1,000 residents.
| Park Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.8 per 1,000 residents | 8.3 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.6 per 1,000 residents | 1.3 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
34% of working residents cross a state line to work. Jobs based here fell from 705 in 2013 to 563.
Most working residents leave Park Hills for work: only 2% work in town. Jobs based in Park Hills fell to 563 in 2023, 142 fewer than in 2013. 7.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Park Hills.
| Park Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $100,000 | $59,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 15% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.5% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Park Hills has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 24° and about 23 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0.6 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Park Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.4% | 1.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Trolley Park | — | 3 |
| 2. Devou Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
15 within 15 miles of the center of Park Hills
About 4 of every 100 Park Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
City in Kentucky, United States
Park Hills is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 3,162 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Much of the city was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 as the Park Hills Historic District.
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2 towns share a border with Park Hills.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Hills | #4 | A+ | B− | A− | A | A |
| Covington | #72 | C+ | B | C | B+ | C− |
| Fort Wright | #5 | A+ | B− | A− | A | A− |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Park Hills grades A+ overall, better than 98% of U.S. towns and #4 of 138 in Kentucky. It grades A for health, A− for safety and A for schools.
That is 4.3 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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