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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-CHILLICOTHE-OH · Chillicothe, OH 21,958 pop · income 18th pct · 17 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 Chillicothe
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chillicothe on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Oxford · lowest
42,147
Oxford · lowest
42,147 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #1
Bay Springs · near
49,183
Bay Springs · near
49,183 median HH income
27.2% of the leader · rank #2
Osterdock · near
49,185
Osterdock · near
49,185 median HH income
27.2% of the leader · rank #3
Winchester · near
49,190
Winchester · near
49,190 median HH income
27.2% of the leader · rank #4
Chillicothe · this city
49,193
Chillicothe · this city
49,193 median HH income
27.2% of the leader · rank #5
El Rancho Vela · near
49,200
El Rancho Vela · near
49,200 median HH income
27.2% of the leader · rank #6
Hudson · highest
180,931
Hudson · highest
180,931 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 Chillicothe 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: 21,958.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Chillicothe - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Chillicothe places in the 18th percentile for household income and the 4th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
18th
percentile, household income
26th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
4th
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: Chillicothe, OH
Chillicothe is a small city in Ohio, home to 21,958 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Chillicothe brings in $49,193 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.3%. Chillicothe's housing stock carries a median value of $145,900, and the median resident age is 41.7 years. About 21.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 51.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 18 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 100% from five years earlier. Chillicothe's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 4847.1 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Chillicothe'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 population change to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chillicothe, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Chillicothe?
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 4847.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 113% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is Chillicothe 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 -226 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 18 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chillicothe?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Oxford (22,069 residents, $42,147 income); South Euclid (21,606 residents, $78,782 income); Alliance (21,574 residents, $54,608 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lorton, VA (21,961 residents); Ozark, MO (21,953 residents); Mililani Mauka, HI (21,967 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.
What can 17 Census tracts reveal inside Chillicothe?
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.
PlainCities matches 17 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Chillicothe?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.3%, 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.
Household income
$49,193
Home value
$145,900
Value / income
3.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Chillicothe?
The NCES join finds 18 public schools within the city match. 21.0% 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 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.
Matched public schools
18
Bachelor's degree+
21.0%
Poverty estimate
13.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Chillicothe?
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 81.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
5.1%
Drive alone
81.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 8,909 workers age 16+.
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.
Violent crime D
206 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$49,193
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Chillicothe profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 47/100 (D) · 206 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 37/100 (F) · 21.0%
Poverty rate: 27/100 (F) · 13.3%
Household income: 19/100 (F) · $49,193
Where Chillicothe sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Chillicothe'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 - Chillicothe highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Chillicothe, OH (this city): home $145,900, crime 4,847/100k
Ozark, MO : home $230,600, crime 764/100k
Golden Valley, MN : home $423,500, crime 1,053/100k
Duarte, CA : home $710,700, crime 1,471/100k
South Euclid, OH : home $134,800, crime 2,033/100k
Alliance, OH : home $113,300, crime 2,336/100k
Rocky River, OH : home $327,600, crime 442/100k
Lebanon, OH : home $257,100, crime 1,205/100k
Hudson, OH : home $444,800, crime 510/100k
How does Chillicothe compare to other US cities?
Here's how Chillicothe stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income18% higher than other cities
Home value26% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety4% 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, Chillicothe ranks #273 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 Chillicothe 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 Chillicothe near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chillicothe ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chillicothe only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#929 of 1,145
19th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#576 of 1,164
51st percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#307 of 1,196
74th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#503 of 1,196
57th 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
18th percentile nationally for median household income · 4th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Chillicothe's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Chillicothe'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 Chillicothe's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$145,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 74% 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
Chillicothe's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,506 of 15,516
More affordable than 58% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#851 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Chillicothe sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,506 of 15,516 and #851 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
$49,193Chillicothe, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chillicothe, 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 Chillicothe, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,958
Median Income
$49,193
Median Home Value
$145,900
Median Age
41.7
Poverty Rate
13.3%
Labor force participation
51.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4847.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
206.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
4641.2
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
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Chillicothe's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
22,041 residents
2021
22,045 residents
2022
21,889 residents
2023
21,884 residents
2024
21,789 residents
2025
21,815 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
18
housing units authorized
Single-Family
16
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
9
0
$2.0M
2020
10
10
0
$2.2M
2021
11
11
0
$2.4M
2022
16
14
2
$5.3M
2023
19
15
4
$5.5M
2024
18
16
2
$6.1M
Permit volume increased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.4%
Carpool
8.8%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
4.1%
Work from Home
5.1%
Based on 8,909 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 Chillicothe. 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 Chillicothe 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 Chillicothe sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chillicothe 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.