Beechwood TrailsOH
A town of 3,133.
What should you know before moving to Beechwood Trails?
Beechwood Trails's standout: the median household earns $111K. Overall it grades B+, ranked 322nd of 987 in Ohio. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 76% of the country and natural-hazard risk is low. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. On history, just 3 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse.
What makes Beechwood Trails stand out
Where Beechwood Trails beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Beechwood Trails for work
Where Beechwood Trails’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Beechwood Trails grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Beechwood Trails is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for walkability (better than 10%), so the B+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Ohio Stadium and 30 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Beechwood Trails. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaOhio Stadium
18 mi Stadium & arenaHistoric Crew Stadium
20 mi Stadium & arenaScottsMiracle-Gro Field
20 mi Stadium & arenaValue City Arena
26 mi Zoo & aquariumColumbus Zoo and Aquarium
9 mi Ancient siteAlligator Effigy MoundPhoto credits
Ohio Stadium: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Historic Crew Stadium: Rick Dikeman, CC BY-SA 3.0 · ScottsMiracle-Gro Field: Nova Crystallis, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Value City Arena: Nick81aku at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Columbus Zoo and Aquarium: Adolphus79 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Alligator Effigy Mound: Rev. Stephen D. Peet, editor, Public domain
Moving to Beechwood Trails: who provides what
Beechwood Trails is unincorporated, so Licking County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Beechwood Trails.
Beechwood Trails has less food insecurity than most of Ohio and sends most of its workers to Columbus and beyond, but it has little public open land.
Beechwood Trails faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 85% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Beechwood Trails earns an A− for health
Its widest gap with Ohio is food insecurity: 7.9% of its 2,520 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.1% statewide. Against the 7,016 U.S. towns with household incomes like Beechwood Trails’s, it is healthier than 57%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
20% of adults get no exercise outside work in Beechwood Trails, where Ohio’s towns sit at 28% and U.S. towns at 25%. 15% of Beechwood Trails adults report frequent mental distress. Beechwood Trails beats the Ohio average on 15 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Beechwood Trails | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 28% | 25% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 20% | 19% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Beechwood Trails | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.9% | 14.1% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 5% | 8.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Beechwood Trails stands out in Ohio and nationally: a smaller share of its residents live below the poverty line
Beechwood Trails has 114 jobs for its 1,637 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. 26.1% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio.
1.9% of residents live below the poverty line in Beechwood Trails, below both Ohio’s towns (9.1%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). The average trip to work in Beechwood Trails is 29 minutes. Jobs based in Beechwood Trails grew to 114 in 2023, 82 more than in 2013.
| Beechwood Trails | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 1.9% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $111,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1% | 6.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Beechwood Trails
Beechwood Trails has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 20° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Compared with most of Ohio and the rest of the country, more of Beechwood Trails’ households own their home
The median property tax bill is $4,446, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
98% of households own their home in Beechwood Trails.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Beechwood Trails is conserved land
Just 0 of its 2,274 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Beechwood Trails itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Beechwood Trails Park and Pool | — | 7 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Beechwood Trails
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Beechwood Trails
About 3 of every 100 Beechwood Trails residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Beechwood Trails
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Beechwood Trails is a census-designated place (CDP) in Harrison Township, Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,276 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,207 ft
Beechwood Trails’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Beechwood Trails.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beechwood Trails | #322 | B+ | C | — | B+ | A− |
| Harrison Township | #445 | B | C | — | B+ | B+ |
| Pataskala | #567 | B− | C | — | B | B |
Beechwood Trails, Harrison Township and Pataskala report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Beechwood Trails with a neighbor →
Questions about Beechwood Trails
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Beechwood Trails, OH a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Beechwood Trails grades B+ overall, better than 72% of U.S. towns and #322 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A− for health and B+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Beechwood Trails, OH expensive?
The typical home is worth about $349,000, 42% above the Ohio typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.