Is Turpin Hills a good place to live?
Where it does best is health (A): CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 94% of the country. With an A overall, Turpin Hills is better than 90% of U.S. towns and ranks 106th of 987 in Ohio. Schools are another plus — its schools outperform 93% of the state's. The drawback is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $497K, 6.1 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. Just over three in five adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in the town, against 24% in Ohio’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Only 132 of Ohio’s 1,707 towns score higher on incomes. Turpin Hills’ typical household income is $141,000, above both Ohio’s towns ($75,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000).
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24.
How Turpin Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Turpin Hills is from typical.
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What makes Turpin Hills stand out
Where Turpin Hills beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Turpin Hills for work
Where Turpin Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Turpin Hills.
Turpin Hills has less food insecurity than most of Ohio, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Ohio and has little public open land.
Turpin Hills’ grade for cost of living is a D
At 6.1 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income, the typical home (about $497K) costs more against local pay than in 94% of Ohio towns; that ratio is one input to that grade. The median property tax bill is $7,162, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Values rose 3.6% in the 12 months to September 2026. 87% of Turpin Hills households are owner-occupiers. Turpin Hills’ going rate for rent comes in at $1,149 a month.
| Turpin Hills | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 87% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,149 a month | $943 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Fewer of Turpin Hills’ adults get no exercise outside work than in the typical Ohio or U.S. town
Its widest gap with Ohio is food insecurity: 6.2% of its 3,763 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.1% statewide.
The share of adults in Turpin Hills who worry about having enough food: 6.2%. Only 9 of the 993 Ohio towns we compare have a lower share of adults who feel lonely than Turpin Hills. CDC measures, 32 in all: Turpin Hills beats Ohio on 23 and trails on 1.
| Turpin Hills | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 28% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 16% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 34% | 33% |
| What stands out | Turpin Hills | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.2% | 14.1% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.3% | 15.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
About one in three of Turpin Hills’ working residents commute to Cincinnati
Turpin Hills has 699 jobs for its 2,466 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. 24.1% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio.
For half of commuters, work is under 8 miles away. Jobs in Turpin Hills grew by 154 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 699. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 2% of working residents work locally. Nearly a quarter of workers do their job from home locally.
| Turpin Hills | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $141,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 24% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 6.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Turpin Hills faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 70% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Turpin Hills
In Turpin Hills, the July high is 87°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Protected land: 0.2% of Turpin Hills
Just 3 of its 1,890 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Turpin Hills itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
Parks and preserves in Turpin Hills: one, of 5 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Five Mile Trail | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Turpin Hills
Kings Island and 54 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Turpin Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi Theme parkKings Island3.2M visitors a year
8 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
7 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
Big draw36 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
8 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
8 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 Turpin Hills: who provides what
Turpin Hills 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.
Colleges nearby
17 within 15 miles of the center of Turpin Hills
About 1 of every 100 Turpin Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Turpin Hills
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Turpin Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,162 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 650 ft
Turpin Hills’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Turpin Hills.
Cincinnati next door grades lower for schools (C to Turpin Hills’s A) and higher for cost of living (C+ to D).
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turpin Hills | #106 | A | D | — | A | A |
| Dry Run | #126 | A | C− | — | A | A |
| Anderson Township | #94 | A | C− | — | A | A− |
| Cincinnati | #957 | D | C+ | D− | C | C |
| Newtown | #191 | A− | D | — | A | A |
| Sherwood | #15 | A+ | B− | — | A | A |
| Forestville | #112 | A | D | — | A | A |
Turpin Hills, Dry Run, Anderson Township, Newtown, Sherwood and Forestville report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Turpin Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Turpin Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Turpin Hills, OH a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Turpin Hills grades A overall, better than 90% of U.S. towns and #106 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A for health and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Turpin Hills, OH expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
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