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SheetOH-BROADVIEW-HEIGHTS-OH · Broadview Heights, OH 19,768 pop · income 77th 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 Broadview Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Broadview Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Nogales · lowest
40,745
Nogales · lowest
40,745 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #1
Rolling Hills · near
99,412
Rolling Hills · near
99,412 median HH income
73.1% of the leader · rank #2
Broadview Hei… · this city
99,431
Broadview Hei… · this city
99,431 median HH income
73.2% of the leader · rank #3
Clinton CDP (… · near
99,436
Clinton CDP (… · near
99,436 median HH income
73.2% of the leader · rank #4
Pine Level · near
99,444
Pine Level · near
99,444 median HH income
73.2% of the leader · rank #5
Elk River · near
99,457
Elk River · near
99,457 median HH income
73.2% of the leader · rank #6
Albany · highest
135,927
Albany · highest
135,927 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 Broadview Heights 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: 19,768.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Broadview Heights - the verdict
Nationally, Broadview Heights sits in the 77th percentile for household income and the 98th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
64th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
98th
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: Broadview Heights, OH
19,768 people live in Broadview Heights, Ohio - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Broadview Heights report a median income of $99,431 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Home values in Broadview Heights run a median of $292,500, and the median resident age is 44.9 years. 53.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 66.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 31 residential building permits were authorized in Broadview Heights (Slowing), down 22% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Broadview Heights reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 106.6 in FBI UCR data, below 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: the state registers 92.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,092 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Ohio's average monthly utility costs around $228 (state average). Commute times here average 22.6 minutes, with 77.0% driving alone and 15.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Broadview 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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change 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 Broadview Heights, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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 Broadview 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 77.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.6 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Broadview Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Broadview Heights?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Oregon (19,821 residents, $82,467 income); Miamisburg (19,859 residents, $82,095 income); Springboro (19,577 residents, $112,872 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Albany, CA (19,768 residents); Palm Valley, FL (19,775 residents); Lackawanna, NY (19,779 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.
Is Broadview 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 declined by -157 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 31 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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 Broadview Heights?
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 106.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 95% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
101.5
Violent rate
5.1
Total reported rate
106.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Broadview Heights?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 53.8% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
Matched public schools
2
Bachelor's degree+
53.8%
Poverty estimate
1.7%
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+
5 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
53.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$99,431
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.
Broadview Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 96/100 (A+) · 5 /100k
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 53.8%
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $99,431
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Where Broadview Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Broadview Heights'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 - Broadview Heights highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Broadview Heights, OH (this city): home $292,500, crime 107/100k
Albany, CA : home $1,188,600, crime 2,631/100k
Lackawanna, NY : home $126,500, crime 1,956/100k
Crest Hill, IL : home $222,600, crime 1,089/100k
Nogales, AZ : home $172,800, crime 3,830/100k
Oregon, OH : home $191,300, crime 4,399/100k
Miamisburg, OH : home $203,700, crime 1,618/100k
Springboro, OH : home $330,300, crime 648/100k
Whitehall, OH : home $138,700, crime 7,009/100k
Forest Park, OH : home $163,200, crime 1,972/100k
Mayfield Heights, OH : home $187,600, crime 318/100k
How does Broadview Heights compare to other US cities?
Broadview Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value64% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety98% 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, Broadview Heights ranks #3 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 Broadview 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 Broadview Heights near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Broadview Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Broadview Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#149 of 1,145
87th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#121 of 1,164
90th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#964 of 1,196
19th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#93 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 98th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Broadview Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Broadview Heights'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 Broadview Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$292,50036th percentilemore affordable than 36% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,380 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#825 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Broadview Heights sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,380 of 15,516 and #825 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
$99,431Broadview Heights, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Broadview 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 Broadview Heights, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)53.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,768
Median Income
$99,431
Median Home Value
$292,500
Median Age
44.9
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
66.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
53.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
106.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
5.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
101.5
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Broadview Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,912 residents
2021
19,743 residents
2022
19,684 residents
2023
19,691 residents
2024
19,734 residents
2025
19,755 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
31
housing units authorized
Single-Family
31
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
40
28
12
$11.0M
2020
11
11
0
$4.1M
2021
44
44
0
$19.6M
2022
47
47
0
$14.4M
2023
25
17
8
$12.5M
2024
31
31
0
$13.5M
Permit volume decreased 22% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.6 minutes
Drive Alone
77.0%
Carpool
3.4%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
15.5%
Other
1.1%
Based on 10,757 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 Broadview 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 Broadview 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 Broadview Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Broadview 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, 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.