CheviotOH
Is Cheviot a good place to live?
Cheviot gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $181K, 2.2 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. It grades C overall, 829th of 987 graded towns in Ohio. The low prices come with trade-offs. The median household income is $53K, and 23% of residents live below the poverty line, and its crime rate is higher than 75% of U.S. towns, with 21 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. On the plus side, natural-hazard risk is low. 23% of residents live below the poverty line in Cheviot, above both Ohio’s towns (9.1%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Only 52 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns score higher on walkability. Cheviot's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 91% of U.S. towns.
What makes Cheviot stand out
Where Cheviot beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Cheviot for work
Where Cheviot’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Cheviot grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Cheviot is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Paycor Stadium and 50 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Cheviot. Close and well known come first.
7 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
Big draw22 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
7 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw37 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
6 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
6 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumPhoto credits
Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ark Encounter: OlinEJ, CC0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Cheviot: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Cheviot, and how to reach them.
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 Cheviot.
Cheviot is healthier than towns with similar incomes, has homes that are cheap against local pay and has seen reported crime fall by a third or more.
Cheviot faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by tornadoes
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 88% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Cheviot’s schools rank behind 70% of Ohio districts
Its public schools are run by the Cincinnati Public Schools. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheviot SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 570 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
Cheviot’s grade for safety is a C
Reported crimes fell from 232 to 152 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Cheviot’s property crime rate is 15.2 per 1,000 residents. Cheviot reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 75% report less. Cheviot’s violent crime rate is 2.4 per 1,000 residents.
| Cheviot | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 15.2 per 1,000 residents | 9.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.4 per 1,000 residents | 1.2 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Cheviot’s workers commute out
Jobs based here fell from 1,845 in 2013 to 1,388.
Most working residents leave Cheviot for work: only 2% work in town. Since 2013, Cheviot has lost 457 jobs, to 1,388 in 2023. The top destinations are Cincinnati (33%), West Chester Township (3%) and Bridgetown (3%).
| Cheviot | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $53,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 6.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Cheviot is less healthy than 74% of U.S. towns
Against the 6,820 U.S. towns with household incomes like Cheviot’s, it is healthier than 53%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
Cheviot beats the Ohio average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 20% of Cheviot adults report frequent mental distress.
| Cheviot | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 26% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 38% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Cheviot | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 7.4% | 8.7% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 11.7% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Cheviot’s grade for cost of living is an A−
At 2.2 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income, the typical home (about $181K) costs less against local pay than in 88% of Ohio towns; that ratio is one input to its A− for cost of living.
54% of households own their home in Cheviot. The typical Cheviot home is worth about $181,000, about the same as a year ago, 26% below the Ohio typical home. The median rent in Cheviot is $878 a month.
| Cheviot | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 54% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $878 a month | $944 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Cheviot
Cheviot has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 22° and about 16 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Cheviot | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.7% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Harvest Home Park | 0.1 mi | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Cheviot
Colleges nearby
16 within 15 miles of the center of Cheviot
About 4 of every 100 Cheviot residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Cheviot
City in Ohio, United States
Cheviot () is a city in west-central Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cincinnati. The population was 8,658 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1818
- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 909 ft
Cheviot’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Cheviot.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheviot | #829 | C | A− | C | C | C |
| Green Township | #285 | B+ | B | B− | B | B+ |
| Cincinnati | #957 | D | C+ | D− | C | C |
| Bridgetown | #20 | A+ | A− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Monfort Heights | #156 | A | B | — | C+ | A− |
Bridgetown and Monfort Heights report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Cheviot with a neighbor →
Questions about Cheviot
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cheviot, OH a good place to live?
Cheviot grades C overall, better than 28% of U.S. towns and #829 of 987 in Ohio. It grades C for health, C for safety and C for schools. Jobs & income is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Cheviot, OH expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.
What is Cheviot, OH known for?
2 notable people were born here, including Robert Huebner and Dorothy Mueller.