Miami HeightsOH
This town in Ohio has a population of 5,269.
Is Miami Heights a good place to live?
Plenty to like here, at a price. Where it does best is incomes (A+): the median household earns $118K. What holds it back is cost of living (C−): the typical home is worth about $327K, 4 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. It also trails on walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. The overall grade comes out at B+, better than 70% of U.S. towns. That places it 337th of 987 in Ohio. On history, just 24 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · National Register of Historic Places.
99% of working residents leave Miami Heights for work
Where Miami Heights’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Miami Heights grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Miami Heights is from typical.
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Kings Island and 50 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Miami Heights. Close and well known come first.
Big draw27 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
12 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
7 mi MuseumCreation Museum1.2M visitors a year
Big draw38 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
12 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
11 mi Stadium & arenaNippert StadiumPhoto credits
Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Creation Museum: Creashin at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Ark Encounter: OlinEJ, CC0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Miami Heights: who provides what
Miami Heights 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 Miami Heights.
Miami Heights has less food insecurity than most of Ohio, sends most of its workers to Cincinnati and beyond and has household incomes well above the Ohio norm.
On CDC estimates, Miami Heights is healthier than four in five U.S. towns
Its widest gap with Ohio is food insecurity: 7.1% of its 3,934 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.1% statewide. Against the 5,998 U.S. towns with household incomes like Miami Heights’s, it is healthier than 65%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Among adults in Miami Heights, 11% have diabetes, below Ohio’s towns (13%) and close to U.S. towns (12%). CDC measures, 32 in all: Miami Heights beats Ohio on 21 and trails on 1. Miami Heights: 20% of adults get no exercise outside work.
| Miami Heights | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 33% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 28% | 25% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Miami Heights | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.1% | 14.1% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4.7% | 8.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.6% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Natural hazards: very low risk in Miami Heights, mostly inland flooding
Of the losses FEMA expects in Miami Heights, 38% come from inland flooding and 32% from tornadoes. On expected storm and flood damage, Miami Heights sits below 87% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About one in three of Miami Heights’ working residents commute to Cincinnati
Miami Heights has 503 jobs for its 2,595 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Just 1% of Miami Heights’s working residents have a job in town. Among residents locally, 2.5% live below the poverty line. The mean commuting time for Miami Heights comes to 29 minutes, against 24 minutes in Ohio’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. For half of commuters, work is under 12 miles away.
| Miami Heights | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $118,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.5% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 15% | 9.7% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Miami Heights has four seasons and pleasant summers
In July, afternoons reach 86°; in January, nights fall to 23°, and about 16 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
5.5% of the land in Miami Heights is protected from building
The trail network density for Miami Heights comes to 0.1 miles per square mile. Walkers can cover 0.3 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The biggest park or preserve is Mitchell Memorial Forest, at 155 acres.
| Miami Heights | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.5% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mitchell Memorial Forest | — | 155 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A larger share of households in Miami Heights live in a home they own than in the typical Ohio or U.S. town
The median property tax bill is $4,931, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The median sale price was $450,000 in September 2026. A home in Miami Heights typically sold within 38 days of listing. Bidding over the asking price: 29% of homes sold in the town.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Miami Heights
Colleges nearby
12 within 15 miles of the center of Miami Heights
About 2 of every 100 Miami Heights residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Miami Heights
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Miami Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,166 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 830 ft
Miami Heights’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Miami Heights.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Heights | #337 | B+ | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Grandview | — | — | B− | — | A− | A− |
| Cleves | #341 | B+ | B+ | — | A− | B− |
| Mack | #201 | A− | C+ | — | A− | A− |
| North Bend | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Grandview has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Miami Heights, Grandview, Cleves and Mack report no FBI crime data of their own. North Bend isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Miami Heights with a neighbor →
Questions about Miami Heights
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Miami Heights, OH a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Miami Heights grades B+ overall, better than 70% of U.S. towns and #337 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A− for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Miami Heights, OH expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $327,000, 33% 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−.