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A town of 13,997, settled in 1788.
Sharonville grades B overall, 437th among Ohio's 987 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. The median household earns $75K and residents are healthier than 77% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Its lowest everyday mark is in safety: it reports more crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, including 30 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. A typical home there costs about $282K, 3.5 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. 15% of the land in Sharonville is conserved, above both the Ohio town median (3.7%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). On the outdoors, just 34 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do better. Sharonville is home to Galen College of Nursing-Cincinnati.
Where Sharonville beats most towns.
15.1% of the town is conserved land, across 8 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Sharonville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Its founding year, 1788, comes before those of 98% of the Ohio towns we grade with a known year.
Census counts: 753 in 1920, 14,117 in 2020. The archive holds 3 old photos and papers going back to 2019 and 5 maps from 1904 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sharonville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw8 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
14 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
14 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
12 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
38 mi MuseumNational Museum of the United States Air Force1.0M visitors a year
11 mi Zoo & aquariumCincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden1.2M visitors a yearKings 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 · National Museum of the United States Air Force: No machine-readable author provided. Rogerd assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sharonville, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Sharonville.
Sharonville draws workers from Cincinnati and beyond and is one of Ohio’s best towns for the outdoors, but it has a long record of flood insurance claims.
Its A for the outdoors ranks #23 of 993 in Ohio.
12 miles of trail in 8 parks and preserves. Sharonville’s trail density is 1.2 miles per square mile, above both Ohio’s towns (0.2) and U.S. towns (0.4). The biggest place to walk is Sharon Woods, 718 acres with 9.7 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sharon Woods | 9.7 mi | 718 |
| 2. Twin Creek Preserve | 0.6 mi | 48 |
| 3. Gower Park | 0.4 mi | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Princeton City school district. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Princeton High School, with 1,619 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton Community Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,332 | C |
| Princeton High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,619 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
27,417 jobs are based in Sharonville, 4.4 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 17.1 minutes, against 23.4 across Ohio.
Most working residents leave Sharonville for work: only 8% work in town. Sharonville’s average trip to work is 17 minutes. Since 2013, Sharonville has added 3,602 jobs, to 27,417 in 2023.
| Sharonville | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 17 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 9.4% | 9.7% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
54 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 10 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 86% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 54 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Sharonville.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
12% of adults report frequent physical distress in Sharonville. Sharonville beats the Ohio average on 17 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 16% of adults report frequent mental distress in Sharonville.
| Sharonville | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Sharonville | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.2% | 8.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.7% | 14.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Reported crimes fell from 344 to 240 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
The property crime rate in Sharonville is 15 per 1,000 residents. Sharonville reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 71% report less. The violent crime rate in Sharonville is 2.1 per 1,000 residents.
| Sharonville | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 15 per 1,000 residents | 9.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.1 per 1,000 residents | 1.2 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Sharonville has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 14 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
57% of Sharonville households own their home. The typical Sharonville home is worth about $282,000, up 2.1% in a year, 15% above the Ohio typical home.
| Sharonville | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 57% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,171 a month | $943 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
People 65 and older are 24% of residents (18% statewide); children under 18 are 17% of residents (22% statewide). 35% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Ohio.
| Sharonville | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 17% | 22% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 24% | 20% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 24% | 29% |
| Median age | 43.5 years | 41.7 years | 40.5 years |
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Ohio, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Sharonville | OH | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.4% | 11.7% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.5% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.9% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.9% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.5% | 12.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 7.2% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 17.9% | 13.2% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.9% | 10.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.8% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.4% | 8.2% | 10.4% |
| High school | 29.8% | 32.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.3% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9.9% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21.9% | 19.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.7% | 12.2% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
14 within 15 miles of the center of Sharonville
About 3 of every 100 Sharonville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
Where Sharonville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
City in Ohio, US
Sharonville is a city largely in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 14,117 at the 2020 census. Sharonville is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area and located about 13 miles (21 km) from downtown Cincinnati.
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8 towns share a border with Sharonville.
Blue Ash next door grades higher for schools (A to Sharonville’s B−) and lower for cost of living (D to B−).
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharonville | #437 | B | B− | C | B− | A− |
| Evendale | #696 | C+ | C− | D− | B− | A |
| Sycamore Township | #462 | B | C− | — | B | A |
| Blue Ash | #211 | A− | D | C+ | A | A |
| Glendale | — | — | C− | — | B− | A |
| West Chester Township | #415 | B+ | C− | B− | A− | A− |
| Brecon | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Springdale | #835 | C | C+ | C− | B− | C+ |
Glendale has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Sycamore Township and Glendale report no FBI crime data of their own. Brecon isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Sharonville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Sharonville grades B overall, better than 64% of U.S. towns and #437 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A− for health, C for safety and B− for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
2 notable people were born here, including Carmen Electra and Spencer Ware.
