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SheetOH-HILLIARD-OH · Hilliard, OH 36,560 pop · income 88th 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 Hilliard
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hilliard on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kiryas Joel · lowest
43,171
Kiryas Joel · lowest
43,171 median HH income
28.6% of the leader · rank #1
Heathrow · near
122,837
Heathrow · near
122,837 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #2
Palmer Lake · near
122,855
Palmer Lake · near
122,855 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #3
Hilliard · this city
122,864
Hilliard · this city
122,864 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #4
Bluffdale · near
122,879
Bluffdale · near
122,879 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #5
Ida · near
122,885
Ida · near
122,885 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #6
Upper Arlingt… · highest
150,993
Upper Arlingt… · highest
150,993 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 Hilliard 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: 36,560.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hilliard - the verdict
Hilliard ranks in the 88th 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.
88th
percentile, household income
73rd
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: Hilliard, OH
36,560 people live in Hilliard, Ohio - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Hilliard brings in $122,864 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.0%. Hilliard's housing stock carries a median value of $360,000, and the median resident age is 35.5 years. About 60.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 73.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 177 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 81% from five years earlier. Hilliard reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1050.8 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: 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. 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 Hilliard'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change 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 Hilliard, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 Hilliard?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1050.8 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hilliard?
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 Upper Arlington (36,319 residents, $150,993 income); North Ridgeville (36,043 residents, $94,234 income); Marion (35,771 residents, $45,829 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Manchester, CT (36,561 residents); Beloit, WI (36,554 residents); Claremont, CA (36,553 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 22 public schools within the city match. 60.2% 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.
Is Hilliard growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,721 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 177 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Hilliard?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.2%. 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
73.2%
Work from home
21.0%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 20,257 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Hilliard?
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 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.9×
Home value
$360,000
Household income
$122,864
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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+
60.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$122,864
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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 B-
121 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Hilliard profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.2%
Household income: 87/100 (A) · $122,864
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 3.0%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 66/100 (B-) · 121 /100k
Where Hilliard sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hilliard'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 - Hilliard highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Hilliard, OH (this city): home $360,000, crime 1,051/100k
Manchester, CT : home $205,800, crime 2,248/100k
Beloit, WI : home $133,500, crime 2,606/100k
Claremont, CA : home $870,800, crime 2,419/100k
Upper Arlington, OH : home $568,200, crime 827/100k
Marion, OH : home $105,900, crime 1,767/100k
Gahanna, OH : home $322,300, crime 2,073/100k
Lima, OH : home $95,900, crime 4,127/100k
Brunswick, OH : home $233,300, crime 449/100k
How does Hilliard compare to other US cities?
Hilliard measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income88% higher than other cities
Home value73% 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.
Zoom in to just Ohio and the picture shifts: Hilliard ranks #122 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 Hilliard 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 Hilliard near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hilliard ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hilliard only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#76 of 1,145
93rd percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#67 of 1,164
94th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#857 of 1,196
28th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#66 of 1,196
94th 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
88th percentile nationally for median household income · 62nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hilliard's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hilliard'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 Hilliard's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$360,00027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Hilliard's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,306 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#811 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Hilliard sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,306 of 15,516 and #811 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
$122,864Hilliard, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hilliard, 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 Hilliard, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,560
Median Income
$122,864
Median Home Value
$360,000
Median Age
35.5
Poverty Rate
3.0%
Labor force participation
73.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1050.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
120.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
930.2
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
22
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hilliard's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
37,177 residents
2021
36,926 residents
2022
37,425 residents
2023
37,496 residents
2024
38,668 residents
2025
38,898 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
177
housing units authorized
Single-Family
177
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
98
98
0
$34.6M
2020
114
114
0
$37.1M
2021
334
118
216
$54.8M
2022
85
81
4
$26.2M
2023
455
132
323
$121.0M
2024
177
177
0
$77.0M
Permit volume increased 81% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.2%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
21.0%
Based on 20,257 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 Hilliard. 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 Hilliard 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 Hilliard sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hilliard 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.