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SheetOH-BRYAN-OH · Bryan, OH 8,664 pop · income 20th pct · 9 tracts
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 Bryan
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bryan on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Wharton · lowest
47,692
Wharton · lowest
47,692 median HH income
30.5% of the leader · rank #1
Fredonia · near
50,294
Fredonia · near
50,294 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #2
Farmington · near
50,294
Farmington · near
50,294 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #3
Roswell · near
50,294
Roswell · near
50,294 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #4
Coleman · near
50,294
Coleman · near
50,294 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #5
Bryan · this city
50,295
Bryan · this city
50,295 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #6
Wyoming · highest
156,518
Wyoming · highest
156,518 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 Bryan 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: 8,664.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bryan - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Bryan lands in the 20th percentile for household income and the 72nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
20th
percentile, household income
21st
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
72nd
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: Bryan, OH
Bryan is a small town in Ohio, home to 8,664 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Bryan report a median income of $50,295 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 19.0%. Typical homes in Bryan are valued around $132,000, and the median resident age is 43.1 years. About 15.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 57.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 5 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 37% from five years earlier. Bryan reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 805.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Bryan's yearly average temperature at 49.7°F with 37.4 inches of precipitation per year.
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). 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). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 55.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bryan'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 schools and households to housing and income to population change to work and mobility to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bryan, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Bryan?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 15.6% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Bryan?
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 19.0%, 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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bryan?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Perry Heights (8,672 residents, $63,288 income); Cheviot (8,655 residents, $54,654 income); Olmsted Falls (8,640 residents, $93,907 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Park Hills, MO (8,667 residents); South Lockport, NY (8,660 residents); Wharton, TX (8,671 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.
Population change
Is Bryan growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -143 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 5 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-1.6%
2025 estimate
8,579
2020 estimate
8,722
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.6%
Work from home
2.8%
Drive alone
82.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,098 workers age 16+.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 49.7°F, with 37.4 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Ohio is 55.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
49.7°F
Annual precipitation
37.4 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
55.0
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bryan?
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 805.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 65% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
746.7
Violent rate
58.3
Total reported rate
805.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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-
58 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$50,295
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bryan profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 82/100 (A-) · 58 /100k
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 22/100 (F) · 15.6%
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,295
Poverty rate: 15/100 (F) · 19.0%
Where Bryan sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bryan'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 - Bryan highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Bryan, OH (this city): home $132,000, crime 805/100k
Park Hills, MO : home $121,100, crime 2,213/100k
Wharton, TX : home $149,300, crime 2,232/100k
Tecumseh, MI : home $193,600, crime 455/100k
Bel Aire, KS : home $213,500, crime 791/100k
Cheviot, OH : home $137,900, crime 2,387/100k
Olmsted Falls, OH : home $214,800, crime 313/100k
Shelby, OH : home $117,300, crime 1,405/100k
Highland Heights, OH : home $342,400, crime 444/100k
Wyoming, OH : home $404,500, crime 694/100k
How does Bryan compare to other US cities?
Where Bryan sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income20% higher than other cities
Home value21% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety72% 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, Bryan ranks #88 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 Bryan 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 Bryan near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bryan ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bryan only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#908 of 1,145
21st percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#685 of 1,164
41st percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#161 of 1,196
86th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#694 of 1,196
42nd 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
20th percentile nationally for median household income · 72nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bryan's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bryan'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 Bryan's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$132,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 79% 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
Bryan's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,644 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,117 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Bryan sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,644 of 15,516 and #4,117 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$50,295Bryan, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bryan, 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 Bryan, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,664
Median Income
$50,295
Median Home Value
$132,000
Median Age
43.1
Poverty Rate
19.0%
Labor force participation
57.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
805.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
58.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
746.7
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
49.7°F
Annual Precipitation
37.4"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Bryan's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,722 residents
2021
8,642 residents
2022
8,616 residents
2023
8,601 residents
2024
8,620 residents
2025
8,579 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
5
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
8
6
2
$1.7M
2020
1
1
0
$0.4M
2021
8
6
2
$2.2M
2022
2
2
0
$0.7M
2023
8
6
2
$1.9M
2024
5
3
2
$1.2M
Permit volume decreased 37% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.9%
Carpool
8.9%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
3.2%
Work from Home
2.8%
Other
0.6%
Based on 4,098 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 Bryan. 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 Bryan 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 Bryan sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bryan 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.