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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-ALLIANCE-OH · Alliance, OH 21,574 pop · income 27th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Alliance
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Alliance on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Oxford · lowest
42,147
Oxford · lowest
42,147 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #1
Norvelt · near
54,605
Norvelt · near
54,605 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #2
Alliance · this city
54,608
Alliance · this city
54,608 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #3
Saguache · near
54,609
Saguache · near
54,609 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #4
Dunlap · near
54,609
Dunlap · near
54,609 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #5
North Berwick · near
54,612
North Berwick · near
54,612 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #6
Waxhaw · highest
128,115
Waxhaw · highest
128,115 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Alliance on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 21,574.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Alliance - the verdict
Alliance ranks in the 27th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
27th
percentile, household income
15th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
25th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Alliance, OH
Alliance is a small city in Ohio, home to 21,574 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Alliance brings in $54,608 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 17.9%. Typical homes in Alliance are valued around $113,300, and the median resident age is 37.5 years. About 17.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 55.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 10 residential building permits were authorized in Alliance (Rapid Growth), up 43% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2336.0 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Ohio run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Ohio at 92.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,092 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Alliance report an average commute of 20.4 minutes, with 74.5% driving alone and 7.8% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.0 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Alliance's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Alliance, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Alliance?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are South Euclid (21,606 residents, $78,782 income); Rocky River (21,490 residents, $93,956 income); Lebanon (21,216 residents, $78,598 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Clemmons, NC (21,574 residents); Green Valley, AZ (21,581 residents); Waxhaw, NC (21,565 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What does the journey to work look like in Alliance?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.4 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
How far does income reach against housing in Alliance?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 17.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Alliance?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2336.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 2% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Alliance?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 17.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
17.9%
Bachelor's degree+
17.5%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Alliance growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -54 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 10 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
21,636
2025 estimate
21,582
Period change
-0.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 17.9% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
F
City profile score · Alliance, OH
37/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B+
92.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
275 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$54,608
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
17.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Alliance profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 275 /100k
Household income: 27/100 (F) · $54,608
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.5%
Poverty rate: 17/100 (F) · 17.9%
Where Alliance sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Alliance's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Alliance highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Alliance, OH (this city): home $113,300, crime 2,336/100k
Waxhaw, NC : home $506,300, crime 481/100k
Del City, OK : home $112,800, crime 3,674/100k
Ennis, TX : home $225,900, crime 1,701/100k
Seymour, IN : home $153,300, crime 1,610/100k
South Euclid, OH : home $134,800, crime 2,033/100k
Rocky River, OH : home $327,600, crime 442/100k
Lebanon, OH : home $257,100, crime 1,205/100k
Chillicothe, OH : home $145,900, crime 4,847/100k
Parma Heights, OH : home $165,800, crime 361/100k
How does Alliance compare to other US cities?
Here's how Alliance stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income27% higher than other cities
Home value15% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Ohio and the picture shifts: Alliance ranks #229 of 281 Ohio cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Alliance against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Ohio only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Ohio-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Alliance near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Alliance ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Alliance only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#811 of 1,145
29th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#845 of 1,164
27th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#187 of 1,196
84th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#610 of 1,196
49th percentile in Ohio
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Ohio only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
27th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Alliance's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Alliance's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Alliance's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$113,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 85% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Alliance's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,921 of 15,516
More affordable than 88% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#90 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.1×, Alliance sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,921 of 15,516 and #90 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$54,608Alliance, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Alliance, OH median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Alliance, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,574
Median Income
$54,608
Median Home Value
$113,300
Median Age
37.5
Poverty Rate
17.9%
Labor force participation
55.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2336.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
274.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2061.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Alliance's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
21,636 residents
2021
21,438 residents
2022
21,456 residents
2023
21,504 residents
2024
21,444 residents
2025
21,582 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
10
housing units authorized
Single-Family
10
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$1.1M
2020
26
5
21
$3.0M
2021
7
7
0
$2.0M
2022
4
4
0
$0.9M
2023
6
2
4
$0.8M
2024
10
10
0
$4.6M
Permit volume increased 43% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.4 minutes
Drive Alone
74.5%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
4.5%
Work from Home
7.8%
Other
2.0%
Based on 9,662 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Ohio statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $228
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Ohio at $228 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Ohio statewide averages, not a meter reading for Alliance. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Ohio's BEA cost-of-living index is 92.8 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Alliance is $1,092/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Ohio statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.0 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Ohio statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Alliance sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Alliance compares to similar-size Ohio cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.