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SheetOH-CLEVELAND-HEIGHTS-OH · Cleveland Heights, OH 44,694 pop · income 53rd 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 Cleveland Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cleveland Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Lafayette · lowest
33,497
West Lafayette · lowest
33,497 median HH income
30.4% of the leader · rank #1
Cambridge · near
72,292
Cambridge · near
72,292 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #2
Guntown · near
72,292
Guntown · near
72,292 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #3
Cleveland Hei… · this city
72,302
Cleveland Hei… · this city
72,302 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #4
State Center · near
72,303
State Center · near
72,303 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #5
San Pedro · near
72,303
San Pedro · near
72,303 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #6
Beavercreek · highest
110,064
Beavercreek · highest
110,064 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 Cleveland 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: 44,694.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cleveland Heights - the verdict
Nationally, Cleveland Heights sits in the 53rd percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
53rd
percentile, household income
36th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
44th
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: Cleveland Heights, OH
Cleveland Heights is a small city in Ohio, home to 44,694 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Cleveland Heights brings in $72,302 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. Typical homes in Cleveland Heights are valued around $176,700, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. About 57.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 62.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 68 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 353% from five years earlier. Cleveland Heights reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1550.6 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,092 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 55.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cleveland 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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cleveland Heights, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Cleveland Heights?
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 Fairfield (44,597 residents, $70,166 income); Strongsville (46,022 residents, $102,574 income); Huber Heights (43,266 residents, $76,551 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Moorhead, MN (44,706 residents); North Lauderdale, FL (44,650 residents); Burlington, VT (44,649 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.
What does the education layer cover for Cleveland Heights?
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 11 public schools within the city match. 57.5% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Cleveland Heights?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.8%. 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.
Is Cleveland Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,472 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 68 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.
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 Cleveland Heights?
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 8.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.4×
Home value
$176,700
Household income
$72,302
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cleveland Heights?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1550.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 32% 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.
Total reported rate
1550.6
Violent rate
250.8
Property rate
1299.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 8.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
C
City profile score · Cleveland Heights, OH
59/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
57.5%
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-
$72,302
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
251 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cleveland Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 57.5%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Household income: 52/100 (C-) · $72,302
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Violent crime: 40/100 (D) · 251 /100k
Where Cleveland Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cleveland 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 - Cleveland Heights highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Cleveland Heights, OH (this city): home $176,700, crime 1,551/100k
Moorhead, MN : home $246,300, crime 2,041/100k
Burlington, VT : home $400,200, crime 4,769/100k
West Lafayette, IN : home $318,100, crime 1,298/100k
Alexandria, LA : home $182,800, crime 9,310/100k
York, PA : home $103,100, crime 2,392/100k
Fairfield, OH : home $218,100, crime 1,659/100k
Strongsville, OH : home $279,600, crime 1,355/100k
Huber Heights, OH : home $161,900, crime 1,988/100k
Delaware, OH : home $279,400, crime 1,137/100k
Beavercreek, OH : home $261,200, crime 2,068/100k
Mentor, OH : home $229,500, crime 1,473/100k
How does Cleveland Heights compare to other US cities?
Cleveland Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income53% higher than other cities
Home value36% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety44% 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, Cleveland Heights ranks #180 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland Heights near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cleveland Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cleveland Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#428 of 1,145
63rd percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#402 of 1,164
65th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#487 of 1,196
59th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#78 of 1,196
93rd 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
53rd percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cleveland Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cleveland 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 Cleveland Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$176,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 64% 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
#3,715 of 15,516
More affordable than 76% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#316 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.4×, Cleveland Heights sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,715 of 15,516 and #316 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
$72,302Cleveland Heights, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cleveland 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 Cleveland Heights, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)57.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
44,694
Median Income
$72,302
Median Home Value
$176,700
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
62.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
57.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1550.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
250.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1299.8
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cleveland Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
45,222 residents
2021
44,731 residents
2022
44,249 residents
2023
43,983 residents
2024
43,815 residents
2025
43,750 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
68
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
67
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
15
0
15
$1.2M
2020
2
0
2
$0.2M
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
68
1
67
$10.8M
Permit volume increased 353% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.8%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
3.0%
Walk
4.4%
Work from Home
16.4%
Other
2.5%
Based on 22,276 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cleveland 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.