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SheetOH-AVON-LAKE-OH · Avon Lake, OH 25,456 pop · income 83rd 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 Avon Lake
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Avon Lake on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Barberton · lowest
48,943
Barberton · lowest
48,943 median HH income
26.7% of the leader · rank #1
Central Islip · near
110,166
Central Islip · near
110,166 median HH income
60.0% of the leader · rank #2
Avon Lake · this city
110,174
Avon Lake · this city
110,174 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #3
La Mirada · near
110,177
La Mirada · near
110,177 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #4
Smithfield · near
110,182
Smithfield · near
110,182 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #5
Friendship He… · near
110,199
Friendship He… · near
110,199 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #6
Mill Creek Ea… · highest
183,466
Mill Creek Ea… · highest
183,466 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 Avon Lake 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: 25,456.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Avon Lake - the verdict
Avon Lake ranks in the 83rd percentile for household income and the 92nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
83rd
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
92nd
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: Avon Lake, OH
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 25,456 residents in Avon Lake, a small city within Ohio. The typical household in Avon Lake brings in $110,174 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.3%. Typical homes in Avon Lake are valued around $337,200, and the median resident age is 43.7 years. Educational attainment runs 54.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 146 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 1% from five years earlier. Avon Lake reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 309.6 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Ohio scores 92.8 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,092 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Ohio's average monthly utility costs around $228 (state average). Workers in Avon Lake report an average commute of 23.5 minutes, with 75.5% driving alone and 17.6% 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 Avon Lake'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 population change to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Avon Lake, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history.
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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Avon Lake?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.5 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Avon Lake?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.3%, 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.
Is Avon Lake growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,216 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 146 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Avon Lake?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Xenia (25,555 residents, $54,616 income); Avon (25,082 residents, $126,618 income); Perrysburg (25,065 residents, $105,226 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bailey's Crossroads, VA (25,458 residents); West Whittier-Los Nietos, CA (25,459 residents); Mill Creek East, WA (25,461 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Avon Lake?
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 309.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 86% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
290.4
Violent rate
19.1
Total reported rate
309.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Avon Lake?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 54.3% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
7
Bachelor's degree+
54.3%
Poverty estimate
2.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Violent crime A+
19 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
54.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$110,174
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Avon Lake profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 92/100 (A+) · 19 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 88/100 (A) · 54.3%
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.3%
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $110,174
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Where Avon Lake sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Avon Lake'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 - Avon Lake highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Avon Lake, OH (this city): home $337,200, crime 310/100k
Reading, MA : home $741,100, crime 572/100k
Reedley, CA : home $311,700, crime 1,427/100k
Xenia, OH : home $147,300, crime 1,739/100k
Avon, OH : home $377,100, crime 970/100k
Perrysburg, OH : home $306,500, crime 474/100k
Barberton, OH : home $120,100, crime 2,380/100k
Medina, OH : home $231,700, crime 871/100k
Centerville, OH : home $262,300, crime 1,046/100k
How does Avon Lake compare to other US cities?
Here's how Avon Lake stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety92% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Ohio alone, Avon Lake ranks #15 of 281 Ohio cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Avon Lake 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 Avon Lake near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Avon Lake ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Avon Lake only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#106 of 1,145
91st percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#77 of 1,164
93rd percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#920 of 1,196
22nd percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#89 of 1,196
92nd 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income · 92nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Avon Lake's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Avon Lake'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 Avon Lake's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$337,20030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Avon Lake's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,004 of 15,516
More affordable than 55% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#992 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Avon Lake sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,004 of 15,516 and #992 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$110,174Avon Lake, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Avon Lake, 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 Avon Lake, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)54.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,456
Median Income
$110,174
Median Home Value
$337,200
Median Age
43.7
Poverty Rate
2.3%
Labor force participation
65.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
54.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
309.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
19.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
290.4
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Avon Lake's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,270 residents
2021
25,509 residents
2022
25,578 residents
2023
25,904 residents
2024
26,218 residents
2025
26,486 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
146
housing units authorized
Single-Family
146
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
144
100
44
$36.6M
2020
133
52
81
$32.0M
2021
67
49
18
$31.6M
2022
174
143
31
$59.6M
2023
135
135
0
$50.0M
2024
146
146
0
$56.8M
Permit volume increased 1% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.5 minutes
Drive Alone
75.5%
Carpool
3.9%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
17.6%
Other
2.0%
Based on 12,857 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 Avon Lake. 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 Avon Lake 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 Avon Lake sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Avon Lake 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.