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SheetOH-CANTON-OH · Canton, OH 70,105 pop · income 7th pct · 90 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 Canton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Canton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Youngstown · lowest
34,746
Youngstown · lowest
34,746 median HH income
21.5% of the leader · rank #1
Red Level · near
39,750
Red Level · near
39,750 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #2
Arctic · near
39,750
Arctic · near
39,750 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #3
Starkville · near
39,751
Starkville · near
39,751 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #4
Macomb · near
39,753
Macomb · near
39,753 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #5
Canton · this city
39,754
Canton · this city
39,754 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #6
Eastvale · highest
161,322
Eastvale · highest
161,322 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 Canton 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: 70,105.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Canton - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Canton lands in the 7th percentile for household income and the 5th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
7th
percentile, household income
8th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
5th
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: Canton, OH
Canton is a small city in Ohio, home to 70,105 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Canton households earn a median of $39,754 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 23.6%. Typical homes in Canton are valued around $94,400, and the median resident age is 36.1 years. About 15.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 29 residential building permits were authorized in Canton (Building Boom), up 107% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Canton's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 4576.2 in FBI UCR data, above 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Ohio run around $228, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Canton report an average commute of 17.8 minutes, with 76.9% driving alone and 7.6% 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 Canton'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 schools and households to population change to within-city variation to reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Canton, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Canton?
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.
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Lorain (65,207 residents, $45,799 income); Hamilton (63,124 residents, $54,293 income); Parma (80,131 residents, $67,425 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Guaynabo zona urbana, PR (70,087 residents); Eastvale, CA (70,179 residents); Tulare, CA (69,984 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.
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.
The NCES join finds 40 public schools within the city match. 15.4% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,574 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 29 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
PlainCities matches 90 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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 Canton?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4576.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 101% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
4576.2
Violent rate
1121.9
Property rate
3454.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Canton?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.8 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
76.9%
Work from home
7.6%
Public transit
2.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 29,071 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Canton?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 23.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.4×
Home value
$94,400
Household income
$39,754
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 23.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
F
City profile score · Canton, OH
21/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
23.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$39,754
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
1,122 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Canton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.4%
Poverty rate: 8/100 (F) · 23.6%
Household income: 6/100 (F) · $39,754
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,122 /100k
Where Canton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Canton'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 - Canton highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Canton, OH (this city): home $94,400, crime 4,576/100k
Eastvale, CA : home $752,000, crime 1,823/100k
Tulare, CA : home $301,200, crime 2,415/100k
Camarillo, CA : home $766,100, crime 1,320/100k
St. Cloud, MN : home $212,800, crime 3,323/100k
West Des Moines, IA : home $286,300, crime 1,879/100k
Lorain, OH : home $123,500, crime 2,132/100k
Hamilton, OH : home $152,300, crime 2,370/100k
Parma, OH : home $157,600, crime 830/100k
Youngstown, OH : home $58,400, crime 3,441/100k
Springfield, OH : home $107,600, crime 5,887/100k
Kettering, OH : home $192,500, crime 1,543/100k
How does Canton compare to other US cities?
Where Canton sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income7% higher than other cities
Home value8% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety5% 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: Canton ranks #270 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 Canton 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 Canton near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Canton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Canton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,080 of 1,145
6th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#1,010 of 1,164
13th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#104 of 1,196
91st percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#702 of 1,196
41st 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
7th percentile nationally for median household income · 5th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Canton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Canton'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 Canton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$94,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 92% 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
Canton's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,352 of 15,516
More affordable than 78% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#24 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.4×, Canton sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,352 of 15,516 and #24 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$39,754Canton, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Canton, 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 Canton, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)23.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
70,105
Median Income
$39,754
Median Home Value
$94,400
Median Age
36.1
Poverty Rate
23.6%
Labor force participation
53.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4576.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1121.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3454.3
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
40
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Canton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
70,575 residents
2021
70,141 residents
2022
69,561 residents
2023
69,205 residents
2024
69,125 residents
2025
69,001 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
29
housing units authorized
Single-Family
21
detached homes
Multifamily
8
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
14
14
0
$2.4M
2020
28
28
0
$3.3M
2021
31
31
0
$3.6M
2022
19
19
0
$3.6M
2023
11
11
0
$1.3M
2024
29
21
8
$3.8M
Permit volume increased 107% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.8 minutes
Drive Alone
76.9%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
2.9%
Walk
2.0%
Work from Home
7.6%
Other
2.5%
Based on 29,071 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 Canton. 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 Canton 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 Canton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Canton 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.