SherwoodOH
A town of 3,808.
Is Sherwood a good place to live?
Few places in the country grade higher. Sherwood earns an A+, ranked 15th of 987 in Ohio. The median household earns $126K, its schools rank ahead of 93% of Ohio towns, and it is healthier than 90% of U.S. towns. Its lowest mark, a B−, is in cost of living. 55% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Sherwood, above both the Ohio town median (24%) and the median of U.S. towns (29%). On history, just 78 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse.
What makes Sherwood stand out
Where Sherwood beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Sherwood for work
Where Sherwood’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Sherwood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Sherwood is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Kings Island and 54 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sherwood. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
8 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
8 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw34 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 Sherwood: who provides what
Sherwood 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 Sherwood.
Sherwood has less tooth loss than most of Ohio and sends most of its workers to Cincinnati and beyond, but it has little public open land.
Sherwood earns an A for health
Its widest gap with Ohio is tooth loss: 5.1% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 15.3% statewide.
10% of Sherwood adults report frequent physical distress. Sherwood beats the Ohio average on 22 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 18% of Sherwood adults get no exercise outside work.
| Sherwood | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 28% | 25% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 16% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 20% | 19% |
| What stands out | Sherwood | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.1% | 15.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.2% | 14.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Very low risk in Sherwood, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 84% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Sherwood.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Sherwood’s typical home value is about $341K
The median property tax bill is $5,030, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Sherwood home is worth about $341,000, up 2.2% in a year, 39% above the Ohio typical home. 95% of households own their home in Sherwood.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
A smaller share of working residents in Sherwood work locally than in the typical Ohio or U.S. town
Sherwood has 438 jobs for its 1,612 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Since 2013, Sherwood has added 140 jobs, to 438 in 2023. Only 6 of the 993 Ohio towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Sherwood. The average trip to work in Sherwood is 22 minutes.
| Sherwood | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $126,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Sherwood
Sherwood has chilly winters and warm summers. Sherwood’s July high is 87°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0% of Sherwood is conserved land
Just 0 of its 688 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Sherwood itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Five Mile Trail | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Sherwood
Colleges nearby
16 within 15 miles of the center of Sherwood
About 3 of every 100 Sherwood residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Sherwood
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Sherwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,633 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 728 ft
Sherwood’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Sherwood.
At #15 in OH, it grades higher overall than all 5 graded towns on its borders; Fruit Hill (A+) comes closest.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood | #15 | A+ | B− | — | A | A |
| Turpin Hills | #106 | A | D | — | A | A |
| Fruit Hill | #51 | A+ | C | — | A | A |
| Anderson Township | #94 | A | C− | — | A | A− |
| Forestville | #112 | A | D | — | A | A |
| Cincinnati | #957 | D | C+ | D− | C | C |
Sherwood, Turpin Hills, Fruit Hill, Anderson Township and Forestville report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Sherwood with a neighbor →
Questions about Sherwood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sherwood, OH a good place to live?
Yes, by almost any measure. Sherwood grades A+ overall, among the top 2% of U.S. towns and #15 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A for health and A for schools.
Is Sherwood, OH expensive?
That is 4.2 years of the area's median household income ($81,120 across the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.