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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-GALION-OH · Galion, OH 10,358 pop · income 13th 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 Galion
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Galion on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Bakersfi… · lowest
36,039
East Bakersfi… · lowest
36,039 median HH income
15.5% of the leader · rank #1
Tipton · near
45,370
Tipton · near
45,370 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #2
Milton · near
45,375
Milton · near
45,375 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #3
Galion · this city
45,377
Galion · this city
45,377 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #4
Queens Gate · near
45,378
Queens Gate · near
45,378 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #5
Greensburg · near
45,386
Greensburg · near
45,386 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #6
New Albany · highest
232,524
New Albany · highest
232,524 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 Galion 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: 10,358.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Galion - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Galion lands in the 13th percentile for household income and the 74th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
10th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
74th
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: Galion, OH
Ohio's Galion is a small town, with 10,358 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Galion households earn a median of $45,377 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 14.8%. Home values in Galion run a median of $100,900, and the median resident age is 43.0 years. Educational attainment runs 15.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 52.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Galion reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 771.3 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Ohio scores 92.8 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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 Galion report an average commute of 25.8 minutes, with 80.4% driving alone and 8.4% working from home. 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 Galion'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 housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Galion, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, 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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Galion?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.8%, 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. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Galion?
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 80.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.8 minutes.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Galion?
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 771.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 66% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Galion?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Tipp City (10,344 residents, $85,081 income); London (10,403 residents, $60,364 income); Vermilion (10,451 residents, $73,052 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Northampton, PA (10,366 residents); Fairmont, MN (10,348 residents); Portage, WI (10,374 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Galion?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 15.1% 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
6
Bachelor's degree+
15.1%
Poverty estimate
14.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -72 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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
-0.7%
2025 estimate
10,370
2020 estimate
10,442
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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
244 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
14.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$45,377
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Galion profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 41/100 (D) · 244 /100k
Poverty rate: 23/100 (F) · 14.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 20/100 (F) · 15.1%
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,377
Where Galion sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Galion'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 - Galion highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Galion, OH (this city): home $100,900, crime 771/100k
Northampton, PA : home $225,400, crime 394/100k
Fairmont, MN : home $168,800, crime 1,691/100k
Portage, WI : home $187,300, crime 2,095/100k
Garden City, GA : home $160,700, crime 4,024/100k
Spanish Fort, AL : home $314,000, crime 1,456/100k
London, OH : home $194,800, crime 847/100k
Vermilion, OH : home $172,000, crime 606/100k
Reading, OH : home $184,200, crime 2,285/100k
New Albany, OH : home $728,200, crime 1,261/100k
Heath, OH : home $215,000, crime 4,536/100k
How does Galion compare to other US cities?
Here's how Galion stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value10% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety74% 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, Galion ranks #83 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 Galion 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 Galion near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Galion ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Galion only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,017 of 1,145
11th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#960 of 1,164
18th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#260 of 1,196
78th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#715 of 1,196
40th 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 74th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Galion's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Galion'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 Galion's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$100,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 90% 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
Galion's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,577 of 15,516
More affordable than 83% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#160 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.2×, Galion sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,577 of 15,516 and #160 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
$45,377Galion, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Galion, 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 Galion, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,358
Median Income
$45,377
Median Home Value
$100,900
Median Age
43.0
Poverty Rate
14.8%
Labor force participation
52.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
771.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
244.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
527.2
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Galion's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,442 residents
2021
10,374 residents
2022
10,297 residents
2023
10,258 residents
2024
10,286 residents
2025
10,370 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.2M
2020
1
1
0
$0.2M
2021
1
1
0
$0.2M
2022
1
1
0
$0.2M
2023
2
2
0
$0.5M
2024
1
1
0
$0.3M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.8 minutes
Drive Alone
80.4%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
8.4%
Other
1.7%
Based on 4,301 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 Galion. 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 Galion 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 Galion sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Galion 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.