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SheetOH-AUSTINTOWN-OH · Austintown, OH 30,215 pop · income 21st 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 Austintown
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Austintown on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Morgantown · lowest
42,245
Morgantown · lowest
42,245 median HH income
26.1% of the leader · rank #1
Carthage · near
50,849
Carthage · near
50,849 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #2
Clinton · near
50,852
Clinton · near
50,852 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #3
Austintown · this city
50,855
Austintown · this city
50,855 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #4
Houghton Lake · near
50,861
Houghton Lake · near
50,861 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #5
Cade Lakes · near
50,862
Cade Lakes · near
50,862 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #6
Highland Park · highest
161,875
Highland Park · highest
161,875 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 Austintown 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: 30,215.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Austintown - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Austintown lands in the 21st percentile for household income and the 46th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
21st
percentile, household income
22nd
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
46th
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: Austintown, OH
Ohio's Austintown is a small city, with 30,215 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Austintown report a median income of $50,855 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.8%. Typical homes in Austintown are valued around $133,000, and the median resident age is 43.6 years. Educational attainment runs 20.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Austintown reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1484.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Ohio run below the national norm: the state registers 92.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,092 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Austintown workers runs 20.0 minutes, with 86.4% driving alone and 5.2% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 55.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Austintown'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 work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Austintown, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Austintown?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.0 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Austintown?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Austintown?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1484.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 35% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Austintown?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Bowling Green (30,051 residents, $46,719 income); North Royalton (31,013 residents, $81,810 income); Garfield Heights (29,369 residents, $52,006 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Middletown, NY (30,227 residents); Highland Park, IL (30,229 residents); Niles, IL (30,262 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.
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.
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 B
101 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$50,855
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Austintown profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 101 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 36/100 (F) · 20.6%
Poverty rate: 25/100 (F) · 13.8%
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,855
Where Austintown sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Austintown'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 - Austintown highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Austintown, OH (this city): home $133,000, crime 1,485/100k
Middletown, NY : home $271,000, crime 1,514/100k
Highland Park, IL : home $594,400, crime 861/100k
Niles, IL : home $350,900, crime 2,278/100k
Morgantown, WV : home $238,200, crime 2,170/100k
Newark, DE : home $357,600, crime 2,308/100k
Bowling Green, OH : home $217,300, crime 1,027/100k
Garfield Heights, OH : home $100,000, crime 2,334/100k
North Olmsted, OH : home $202,400, crime 1,062/100k
Massillon, OH : home $138,800, crime 2,134/100k
How does Austintown compare to other US cities?
Austintown measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income21% higher than other cities
Home value22% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety46% 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: Austintown ranks #174 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 Austintown 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 Austintown near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Austintown ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Austintown only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#890 of 1,145
22nd percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#678 of 1,164
42nd percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#288 of 1,196
76th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#520 of 1,196
56th 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income · 46th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Austintown's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Austintown'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 Austintown's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$133,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 78% 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
Austintown's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,594 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#461 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Austintown sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,594 of 15,516 and #461 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
$50,855Austintown, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Austintown, 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 Austintown, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
30,215
Median Income
$50,855
Median Home Value
$133,000
Median Age
43.6
Poverty Rate
13.8%
Labor force participation
59.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1484.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
101.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1383.4
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.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.0 minutes
Drive Alone
86.4%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
5.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 14,999 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 Austintown. 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 Austintown 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 Austintown sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Austintown 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, 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.