Fruit HillOH
Home to 4,200 people, the town was settled in 1876.
Is Fruit Hill a good place to live?
Mostly strong, with a single weak spot. Its strongest subject is schools: its schools rank ahead of 93% of Ohio towns. Health is another plus: it is healthier than 91% of U.S. towns. What holds it back is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $271K, 3.3 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. The overall grade lands at A+, better than 96% of U.S. towns. That places it 51st of 987 in Ohio. 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.
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
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
In Fruit Hill, the density of trails is 1.6 miles per square mile. Trails run 2.1 miles in 1 park or preserve.
| 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
A smaller share of adults in Fruit Hill feel lonely than in the typical Ohio or U.S. town
Its widest gap with Ohio is tooth loss: 6.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 15.3% statewide.
A quarter of Fruit Hill adults have been diagnosed with depression. In Fruit Hill, 14% of adults report frequent mental distress, below both Ohio’s towns (18%) and U.S. towns (17%). The town does better than the Ohio average on 23 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1.
| Fruit Hill | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 34% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 28% | 25% |
| 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
The biggest natural risk in Fruit Hill is inland flooding, at a low overall level
Expected losses in Fruit Hill break down as 49% from inland flooding and 23% from tornadoes. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in four fifths of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With only 0.3 jobs per working resident, most people in Fruit Hill work out of town
Jobs based here fell from 726 in 2013 to 579.
Fruit Hill’s middle household income comes in at $107,000. Employers in Fruit Hill shed 147 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 579. In Fruit Hill, 1.2% of working residents work locally, below both the Ohio town median (6.9%) and the median of U.S. towns (8%). Half commute less than 9 miles.
| 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
Fruit Hill: four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect chilly winters and warm summers in Fruit Hill. Summer afternoons peak near 86° in July, and January nights bottom out around 23°; snowfall runs to about 23 inches a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fruit Hill stands out in Ohio and nationally: a larger share of its households live in a home they own
The median property tax bill is $5,214, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
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.