Cleveland Magazine: Solon One of City's Top Suburbs

Solon is the fourth-best Cleveland suburb, bolstered by the top school district in Northeast Ohio, according to Cleveland magazine's annual "Rating the Suburbs" issue.

The magazine, which was released to newsstands this week, rated all 77 suburbs of Cleveland on a variety of factors, including schools, safety, walkability, home prices, taxes and more.

Solon earned the No. 4 rank, the same rank as last year. The top suburb – rising from seventh place last year – was Richfield Village.

The school district again earned the top spot, which it held last year, too.

Here are some other Solon highlights from the "Rating the Suburbs" feature.

• Solon ranked 12th for median home sale price with a 2010 price of $238,500. The highest was Pepper Pike at $437,700.
• Solon ranked 33rd out of 77 suburbs on safety, with more than 2 violent crimes and 8 non-violent crimes per 1,000 people.
• Solon ranked 47th out of 77 suburbs for walkability, defined by the percentage of streets with sidewalks. Only 40.6 percent of Solon's streets have sidewalks