Fruit HillOH
A town of 4,200, settled in 1876.
Is Fruit Hill a good place to live?
Few places in the country grade higher. Fruit Hill earns an A+, 51st of 987 graded towns in Ohio. Its schools rank ahead of 93% of Ohio towns, residents are healthier than 91% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, and the median household earns $107K. Its lowest mark, a C, is in cost of living. 67% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Fruit Hill, above both Ohio’s towns (24%) and U.S. towns (29%). On the outdoors, just 157 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do better. The biggest place to walk is Beech Acres Park, 48 acres with 2 miles of trail.
What makes Fruit Hill stand out
Where Fruit Hill beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Fruit Hill for work
Where Fruit Hill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Fruit Hill grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Fruit Hill is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Kings Island and 53 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fruit Hill. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
8 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
8 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw33 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
9 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
9 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumPhoto credits
Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Paycor 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 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Fruit Hill: who provides what
Fruit Hill is unincorporated, so Hamilton 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 Fruit Hill.
Fruit Hill has less tooth loss than most of Ohio and has household incomes well above the Ohio norm, but it has lost a quarter or more of its jobs in ten years.
2.9% of Fruit Hill is conserved land
2.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The trail density in Fruit Hill is 1.6 miles per square mile.
| Fruit Hill | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.6 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.9% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Beech Acres Park | 2 mi | 48 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For health, Fruit Hill earns an A
Its widest gap with Ohio is tooth loss: 6.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 15.3% statewide.
10% of adults report frequent physical distress in Fruit Hill. Fruit Hill beats the Ohio average on 23 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 9.8% of adults smoke cigarettes in Fruit Hill.
| Fruit Hill | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 28% | 25% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| What stands out | Fruit Hill | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.1% | 15.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.5% | 14.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Fruit Hill faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 80% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Fruit Hill’s workers commute out: the town has 0.3 jobs for each of them
Jobs based here fell from 726 in 2013 to 579.
Most working residents leave Fruit Hill for work: only 1% work in town. Since 2013, Fruit Hill has lost 147 jobs, to 579 in 2023. 6.8% of Fruit Hill residents live below the poverty line.
| Fruit Hill | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $107,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.2% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.8% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Fruit Hill
Fruit Hill 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.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More of Fruit Hill’s households own their home than in the typical Ohio or U.S. town
The median property tax bill is $5,214, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The median sale price was $486,000 in May 2026.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Fruit Hill
Colleges nearby
16 within 15 miles of the center of Fruit Hill
About 2 of every 100 Fruit Hill residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Fruit Hill
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Fruit Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,748 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 725 ft
Fruit Hill’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Fruit Hill.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit Hill | #51 | A+ | C | — | A | A |
| Salem Heights | #3 | A+ | B | — | A | A |
| Sherwood | #15 | A+ | B− | — | A | A |
| Forestville | #112 | A | D | — | A | A |
| Anderson Township | #94 | A | C− | — | A | A− |
| Cincinnati | #957 | D | C+ | D− | C | C |
Fruit Hill, Salem Heights, Sherwood, Forestville and Anderson Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Fruit Hill with a neighbor →
Questions about Fruit Hill
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fruit Hill, OH a good place to live?
Yes, by almost any measure. Fruit Hill grades A+ overall, better than 96% of U.S. towns and #51 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A for health and A for schools.
Is Fruit Hill, OH expensive?
The typical home is worth about $271,000, 10% 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.