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SheetOH-CENTERVILLE-OH · Centerville, OH 24,815 pop · income 63rd 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 Centerville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Centerville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Zanesville · lowest
39,085
Zanesville · lowest
39,085 median HH income
28.5% of the leader · rank #1
Heritage Lake · near
81,495
Heritage Lake · near
81,495 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #2
Centerville · this city
81,500
Centerville · this city
81,500 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #3
North Beach · near
81,500
North Beach · near
81,500 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #4
New Era · near
81,500
New Era · near
81,500 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #5
Everett · near
81,502
Everett · near
81,502 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #6
Pecan Grove · highest
137,275
Pecan Grove · highest
137,275 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 Centerville 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: 24,815.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Centerville - the verdict
Centerville ranks in the 63rd percentile for household income and the 62nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
63rd
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
62nd
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: Centerville, OH
Centerville is a small city in Ohio, home to 24,815 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Centerville households earn a median of $81,500 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.3%. Centerville's housing stock carries a median value of $262,300, and the median resident age is 48.4 years. 47.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 57.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 267 residential building permits were authorized in Centerville (Building Boom), up 3238% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Centerville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1046.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. 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 Centerville'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 reported crime to schools and households to housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Centerville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Centerville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1046.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 54% lower 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.
What does the education layer cover for Centerville?
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 9 public schools within the city match. 47.4% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Centerville?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Centerville?
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 Sandusky (24,748 residents, $47,827 income); Zanesville (24,726 residents, $39,085 income); Barberton (24,977 residents, $48,943 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Westchase, FL (24,818 residents); Yukon, OK (24,802 residents); Pecan Grove, TX (24,798 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.
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 Centerville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +703 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 267 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 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.
2020 estimate
24,491
2025 estimate
25,194
Period change
+2.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Centerville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
76.3%
Work from home
15.8%
Public transit
0.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 11,670 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 8.3% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
B-
City profile score · Centerville, OH
69/100
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.
Violent crime A
38 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Household income C+
$81,500
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Centerville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 87/100 (A) · 38 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 47.4%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $81,500
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.3%
Where Centerville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Centerville'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 - Centerville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Centerville, OH (this city): home $262,300, crime 1,046/100k
Yukon, OK : home $185,800, crime 1,355/100k
Fort Dodge, IA : home $128,900, crime 4,257/100k
Big Spring, TX : home $138,800, crime 3,548/100k
Seal Beach, CA : home $492,200, crime 3,231/100k
Sandusky, OH : home $104,800, crime 2,977/100k
Zanesville, OH : home $106,900, crime 3,174/100k
Barberton, OH : home $120,100, crime 2,380/100k
Perrysburg, OH : home $306,500, crime 474/100k
Avon, OH : home $377,100, crime 970/100k
How does Centerville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Centerville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income63% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety62% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Ohio, Centerville ranks #121 of 281 Ohio cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Centerville 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 Centerville near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Centerville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Centerville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#289 of 1,145
75th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#164 of 1,164
86th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#506 of 1,196
58th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#120 of 1,196
90th 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
63rd percentile nationally for median household income · 62nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Centerville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Centerville'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 Centerville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$262,30042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% 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
Centerville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,780 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,201 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Centerville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,780 of 15,516 and #1,201 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
$81,500Centerville, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Centerville, 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 Centerville, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,815
Median Income
$81,500
Median Home Value
$262,300
Median Age
48.4
Poverty Rate
8.3%
Labor force participation
57.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1046.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
38.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1008.3
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Centerville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
24,491 residents
2021
24,916 residents
2022
25,045 residents
2023
24,999 residents
2024
25,067 residents
2025
25,194 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
267
housing units authorized
Single-Family
9
detached homes
Multifamily
258
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
8
8
0
$1.4M
2020
313
9
304
$39.7M
2021
315
10
305
$40.3M
2022
364
7
357
$45.6M
2023
276
8
268
$35.3M
2024
267
9
258
$34.3M
Permit volume increased 3238% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.3%
Carpool
4.7%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
15.8%
Other
1.0%
Based on 11,670 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 Centerville. 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 Centerville 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 Centerville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Centerville 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.