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SheetOH-BOSTON-HEIGHTS-OH · Boston Heights, OH 1,436 pop · income 89th 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 Boston Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Boston Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Miami · lowest
44,286
Miami · lowest
44,286 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #1
Andover · near
127,054
Andover · near
127,054 median HH income
79.8% of the leader · rank #2
Somerville · near
127,056
Somerville · near
127,056 median HH income
79.8% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Morton-B… · near
127,074
Lake Morton-B… · near
127,074 median HH income
79.8% of the leader · rank #4
Boston Heights · this city
127,083
Boston Heights · this city
127,083 median HH income
79.8% of the leader · rank #5
Centereach · near
127,106
Centereach · near
127,106 median HH income
79.8% of the leader · rank #6
Bratenahl · highest
159,250
Bratenahl · highest
159,250 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Boston Heights on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 1,436.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Boston Heights lands in the 89th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
89th
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Boston Heights, OH
Ohio's Boston Heights is a small town, with 1,436 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $127,083 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.9%. Boston Heights's housing stock carries a median value of $435,400, and the median resident age is 50.6 years. Educational attainment runs 55.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. 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). 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 Boston Heights'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 population change to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Boston Heights, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Boston Heights?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Sawyerwood (1,437 residents, $53,750 income); West Liberty (1,438 residents, $56,250 income); Bratenahl (1,433 residents, $159,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Miami, AZ (1,436 residents); Crested Butte, CO (1,436 residents); Wisner, NE (1,436 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.
Is Boston Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.2% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Boston Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.9%, 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 does the journey to work look like in Boston Heights?
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 76.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Household income A
$127,083
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
55.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Boston Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $127,083
Bachelor's+ share: 89/100 (A) · 55.9%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 1.9%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
How does Boston Heights compare to other US cities?
Boston Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Boston Heights 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 Boston Heights near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Boston Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Boston Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#62 of 1,145
95th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#40 of 1,164
97th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#951 of 1,196
20th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#85 of 1,196
93rd 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Boston Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$435,40020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Boston Heights's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,681 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,036 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Boston Heights sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,681 of 15,516 and #7,036 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$127,083Boston Heights, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Boston Heights, 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 Boston Heights, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)55.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,436
Median Income
$127,083
Median Home Value
$435,400
Median Age
50.6
Poverty Rate
1.9%
Labor force participation
58.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
55.9%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Boston Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,405 residents
2021
1,402 residents
2022
1,397 residents
2023
1,400 residents
2024
1,403 residents
2025
1,408 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.7%
Carpool
4.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
17.4%
Other
1.5%
Based on 677 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 Boston Heights. 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 Boston Heights 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 Boston Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Boston Heights 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, 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.