Beachwood

The city of Beachwood was incorporated as a city in 1960 and sits ten miles east of Cleveland. Cleveland Magazine rated the City of Beachwood the #1 place to live in Cuyahoga County, based on factors like neighborhoods, education, home value, tax rates, and safety. Living in Beachwood can offer residents a unique urban feel despite the fact that most residents own their homes. Home prices are quite reasonable with the median home sale price checking in at $255,000. Couple that with the low tax rate and highly rated public school system, and it’s easy to see that Beachwood would be a great place to raise a family.

There are several attractions that make living in Beachwood interesting including Beachwood Place, which is a large shopping mall that includes Dillard’s, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue. There is also Canterbury Golf Club, a private golf and country club that has hosted all five of the PGA men’s rotating major championships that are played within the United States, the most recent of which was the Senior PGA Championship in 2009.

For children, Beachwood is home to the largest fully accessible playground in Northeast Ohio, Preston’s H.O.P.E. Beachwood’s considerable Jewish population is acknowledged and celebrated with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, which also provides perspective on the history of Jewish immigrants and their culture within the United States.

And finally, Beachwood is home to the University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center, which is aiming to become one of the safest and most technologically advanced community hospitals in the country. It will serve more than 540,000 residents in the Cleveland area.