Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Silver Lake's standout: the median household earns $140K. Overall it grades B+, 376th among Ohio's 987 graded towns. It is healthier than 90% of U.S. towns and it has 5 miles of trail. Silver Lake’s trail density is 3.2 miles per square mile, against 0.2 in Ohio’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Only 145 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns score lower on history.
Where Silver Lake beats most towns.
Where Silver Lake’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Silver Lake is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 120 in 1920, 2,516 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1905 and 5 maps from 1906 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Silver Lake. Close and well known come first.
Big draw27 mi MuseumRock and Roll Hall of Fame580K visitors a year
Big draw23 mi MuseumPro Football Hall of Fame192K visitors a year
4 mi National ParkCuyahoga Valley National Park3.0M visitors a year
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaProgressive Field
27 mi Stadium & arenaHuntington Bank Field
26 mi Stadium & arenaRocket ArenaRock and Roll Hall of Fame: MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pro Football Hall of Fame: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 · Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Unknown, Public domain · Progressive Field: Jsawczuk, Public domain · Huntington Bank Field: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 · Rocket Arena: Cards84664, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Silver Lake, 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 Silver Lake.
Silver Lake has less food insecurity than most of Ohio, sends most of its workers to Akron and beyond and has household incomes well above the Ohio norm.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Cuyahoga Falls City School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 210 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Ohio is food insecurity: 5.5% of its 2,086 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.1% statewide. Against the 3,574 U.S. towns with household incomes like Silver Lake’s, it is healthier than 64%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
13% of adults report frequent mental distress in Silver Lake, below both the Ohio town median (18%) and the median of U.S. towns (17%). 29% of adults feel lonely in Silver Lake. Silver Lake beats the Ohio average on 22 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Silver Lake | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.7% | 16% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 34% | 33% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 28% | 25% |
| What stands out | Silver Lake | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.5% | 14.1% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 3.6% | 8.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 12.1% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median property tax bill is $5,524, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Silver Lake home is worth about $368,000, up 5% in a year, 50% above the Ohio typical home. 94% of Silver Lake households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Silver Lake has 248 jobs for its 1,175 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Silver Lake for work: only 2% work in town. Since 2013, Silver Lake has added 64 jobs, to 248 in 2023. The top destinations are Akron (23%), Cuyahoga Falls (9%) and Stow (6%).
| Silver Lake | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $140,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.9% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Silver Lake has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 20° and about 47 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 55% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Silver Lake since 1979.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
4 within 15 miles of the center of Silver Lake
About 5 of every 100 Silver Lake residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Ohio.
Village in Ohio, United States
Silver Lake is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,516 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Akron and is part of the Akron metropolitan area. Silver Lake is mostly surrounded by the cities of Stow and Cuyahoga Falls, and shares a small border with Munroe Falls.
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2 towns share a border with Silver Lake.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake | #376 | B+ | C | — | B− | A |
| Cuyahoga Falls | #581 | B− | B− | C+ | B− | B |
| Stow | #290 | B+ | C | B− | B+ | A− |
Silver Lake reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Silver Lake with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Silver Lake grades B+ overall, better than 68% of U.S. towns and #376 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A for health and B− for schools.
That is 5.1 years of the area's median household income ($72,371 across the Akron, OH 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 C.
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