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Mount Healthy HeightsOH

A town of 3,263.

Is Mount Healthy Heights a good place to live?

Mount Healthy Heights grades D overall, 934th of 987 graded towns in Ohio, mostly because of health. Residents are less healthy than 90% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. One bright spot: natural-hazard risk is low. 5.9% of residents are 65 or older in Mount Healthy Heights, below both the Ohio town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (18%). Only 70 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns score lower on history.

StrongestAHazard riskWeakestDHealth

What makes Mount Healthy Heights stand out

Where Mount Healthy Heights beats most towns.

A shrinking town

Mount Healthy Heights has shrunk 11% from 2010 to 2020

3,264 counted in 2010 and 2,918 in 2020.

3,2642010
2,9182020

U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts

How Mount Healthy Heights grades

Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Mount Healthy Heights is from typical.

How grading works
Character Graded, but not part of the overall grade.
Described, not graded Taste, not quality: snow or an older crowd is neither good nor bad.

How TownRatings grades towns →

Nearby attractions

Kings Island and 59 more within 40 miles

Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mount Healthy Heights. Close and well known come first.

All 77 attractions →
Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo 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 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0

Getting set up

Moving to Mount Healthy Heights: who provides what

Mount Healthy Heights is unincorporated, so Hamilton County and regional agencies provide most services.

PowerDuke Energy16.8¢/kWh · EIA 2025HIFLD · EIA
WaterGCWWNo health-based violations in 5 years · EPAEPA
Internet5 providers100% of addresses get 100/20 MbpsFCC
Trash & county servicesHamilton CountyHamilton County provides services here
SchoolsMount Healthy City School DistrictNorthwest Local School District2 districts serve Mount Healthy Heights; which school depends on your address and gradeNCES
Register to voteOnlineIn Ohio you can register online until 30 days before Election Day, in person until 30 days before Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 30 days before).vote.gov
Who runs elections hereDirector, Hamilton County Board of ElectionsHamilton County; contacts on the Handbook page.FVAP, May 2026
ZIP code4523145231 100%Census 2020

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 Mount Healthy Heights.

Mount Healthy Heights has homes that are cheap against local pay and sends most of its workers to Cincinnati and beyond.

HealthD

Mount Healthy Heights earns a D for health

For adults in Mount Healthy Heights, the share who sleep under 7 hours is 42%. Of 32 CDC measures, Mount Healthy Heights beats the Ohio average on 1 and trails it on 17.

10%healthier than U.S. townsDHealth Grade
Mount Healthy HeightsOhio townsU.S. towns
Food insecurity (CDC PLACES)24%13%14%
Diabetes (CDC PLACES)17%13%12%
Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES)42%38%36%
Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES)25%20%19%
32 measures vs. Ohio
1 better14 too close to call17 worse
What stands outMount Healthy HeightsOH
Fewer adults who have had cancer7.4%8.7%
More adults facing a utility shut-off15.3%8.3%
Mercy Health - Fairfield Hospital
3.9 mi away · emergency room
1 of 3
care shortages: mental health
13th
percentile among OH towns

CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA

Natural hazardsHazard risk grade A

Top of a very low hazard risk in Mount Healthy Heights: inland flooding

The risk rating from FEMA in Mount Healthy Heights is 18 of 100. FEMA puts 37% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 31% to tornadoes. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 82% of U.S. communities.

18risk score of 100
FEMA risk score
18Very low riskLowerHigher
Inland floodingTornadoesHeat waves

FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA

Work & commuteJobs & income grade C+

Few of Mount Healthy Heights’ working residents work in town

Mount Healthy Heights has 350 jobs for its 1,314 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.

Half the trips to work are shorter than 10 miles. The income of the median household for Mount Healthy Heights comes to $53,000. Since 2013, Mount Healthy Heights has lost 29 jobs, to 350 in 2023. 12% of residents live below the poverty line in the town.

0%work in town
Mount Healthy HeightsOhio townsU.S. towns
Median household income$53,000$75,000$80,000
Working residents who work in town0.2%6.9%8%
Average trip to work22 minutes24 minutes25 minutes
Below the poverty line12%9.1%9.6%

Where working residents work

In Mount Healthy Heights0%
Cincinnati19%
West Chester Township7%
Fairfield6%
Blue Ash4%
10 mi
median commute distance
350
jobs based in Mount Healthy Heights
A commuter town
jobs vs. working residents
B+
Walkability grade: more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns

Census LEHD 2023 · ACS

Who lives here

Mount Healthy Heights stands out in Ohio and nationally: the median age there is lower

College graduates make up nearly a quarter of adults 25 and older, against 32% across Ohio. Children under 18 are just over a third of residents (22% statewide); people 65 and older are 6% of residents (18% statewide).

28.8median age · OH 39.7
Mount Healthy HeightsOhio townsU.S. towns
Median age28.8 years41.7 years40.5 years
Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+23%24%29%
Mount Healthy HeightsOhioUnited States

Ages · share of residents

Education · adults 25 and older

No diploma3%
High school27%
Some college34%
Associate’s13%
Bachelor’s17%
Graduate6%

Women and men · all residents

Somewhere between 37% and 63% women

The Census survey reached too few of Mount Healthy Heights’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±12.8 points. Across Ohio, 50.7% of residents are women.

Ages and education in Mount Healthy Heights
Mount Healthy HeightsOHU.S.
Under 1013%11.7%11.6%
10 to 1722.1%10.3%10.3%
18 to 244.9%8.9%9.1%
25 to 3416.6%13.2%13.7%
35 to 4413.7%12.5%13.2%
45 to 5418.6%12%12.2%
55 to 645.2%13.2%12.7%
65 to 744%10.9%10.2%
75 and older1.8%7.3%7%
No diploma3.1%8.2%10.4%
High school26.9%32.1%26%
Some college34.2%19.3%19.1%
Associate’s13.1%9%8.8%
Bachelor’s16.5%19.3%21.6%
Graduate6.2%12.2%14.1%

U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,300, single groups can be off by several points

Climate

The climate in Mount Healthy Heights brings four seasons and pleasant summers

July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 22° and about 16 inches of snow falls in a winter.

16″snow a winter

Typical low → high °F

Winter25–41°
Spring43–64°
Summer63–84°
Fall45–66°
Oct 26
typical first frost
Apr 17
typical last frost
+1.2°
vs. the 20th-century average

NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020

HousingCost of living grade C+

The median home in Mount Healthy Heights sells for about $250K

At 1.8 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 97% of Ohio towns; that ratio is one input to its C+ for cost of living. 77% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 45.9% across Ohio.

The share of households in Mount Healthy Heights who live in a home they own: 52%. Mount Healthy Heights’ typical rent is $1,488 a month.

$250Kmedian sale price
Mount Healthy HeightsOhio townsU.S. towns
Households that own their home52%77%73%
Median rent$1,488 a month$943 a month$1,185 a month
1
homes sold in May

Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Mount Healthy Heights

15pages on Mount Healthy Heights
After high school

Colleges nearby

14 within 15 miles of the center of Mount Healthy Heights

A commuter town

100% of working residents leave Mount Healthy Heights for work

Where Mount Healthy Heights’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.

19% → Cincinnati Cincinnati 19% 7% → West Chester Township West Chester Township 7% 6% → Fairfield Fairfield 6% 4% → Blue Ash Blue Ash 4% 4% → Sharonville Sharonville 4% 3% → Springdale Springdale 3% Mount Healthy Heights · 0% stay
350jobs based in Mount Healthy Heights
0%of working residents work in town
10 mimedian commute distance

Census LEHD 2023

About Mount Healthy Heights

Census-designated place in Ohio, United States

Mount Healthy Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,918 at the 2020 census.

From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)

Area
0.8 sq mi
Elevation
846 ft

Mount Healthy Heights’s neighbors

2 towns share a border with Mount Healthy Heights.

Explore the map →
NorthgatePleasant RunNorthgatePleasant RunMount Healthy Heights
How the neighbors grade
TownOH rankOverallCostSafetySchoolsHealth
Mount Healthy Heights#934DC+—C+D
Northgate#439BB—C+C
Pleasant Run#603B−B+—C+B−

Mount Healthy Heights, Northgate and Pleasant Run report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mount Healthy Heights with a neighbor →

Questions about Mount Healthy Heights

Short answers, built from the data on this page.

Is Mount Healthy Heights, OH a good place to live?

It grades D for health and C+ for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.

Is Mount Healthy Heights, OH expensive?

The typical home is worth about $146,000, 41% below 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+.