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SheetOH-HILLSBORO-OH · Hillsboro, OH 6,539 pop · income 13th pct · 11 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 Hillsboro
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hillsboro on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Moraine · lowest
44,648
Moraine · lowest
44,648 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #1
Minorca · near
45,192
Minorca · near
45,192 median HH income
20.9% of the leader · rank #2
Jennings · near
45,194
Jennings · near
45,194 median HH income
20.9% of the leader · rank #3
Hillsboro · this city
45,197
Hillsboro · this city
45,197 median HH income
21.0% of the leader · rank #4
Marked Tree · near
45,197
Marked Tree · near
45,197 median HH income
21.0% of the leader · rank #5
Albany · near
45,201
Albany · near
45,201 median HH income
21.0% of the leader · rank #6
Bronxville · highest
215,726
Bronxville · highest
215,726 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 Hillsboro 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: 6,539.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hillsboro - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Hillsboro lands in the 13th percentile for household income and the 49th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
23rd
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
49th
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: Hillsboro, OH
6,539 people live in Hillsboro, Ohio - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $45,197 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 17.6%. Home values in Hillsboro run a median of $136,900, and the median resident age is 41.8 years. 17.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 114 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 2180% from five years earlier. Hillsboro reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1396.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 52.3°F with 46.7 inches of precipitation per year and 18.1 inches of snowfall.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,092 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Ohio run around $228, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Hillsboro'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 population change to housing and income to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to schools and households to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hillsboro, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Hillsboro growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +324 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 114 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Hillsboro?
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 17.6%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hillsboro?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are South Lebanon (6,552 residents, $110,729 income); Milford (6,525 residents, $72,907 income); Howland Center (6,564 residents, $84,306 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bronxville, NY (6,539 residents); Pecan Plantation, TX (6,539 residents); Garrett, IN (6,540 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 11 Census tracts reveal inside Hillsboro?
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 11 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Hillsboro?
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 83.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
4.2%
Drive alone
83.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,651 workers age 16+.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 52.3°F, with 46.7 inches of precipitation and 18.1 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Ohio is 55.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
52.3°F
Annual precipitation
46.7 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
55.0
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Hillsboro?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 17.9% 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+
17.9%
Poverty estimate
17.6%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hillsboro?
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 1396.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 39% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1321.3
Violent rate
75.1
Total reported rate
1396.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 B+
75 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
17.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$45,197
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Hillsboro profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 75 /100k
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.9%
Poverty rate: 18/100 (F) · 17.6%
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,197
Where Hillsboro sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hillsboro'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 - Hillsboro highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
Hillsboro, OH (this city): home $136,900, crime 1,396/100k
Milford, OH : home $228,200, crime 984/100k
Moraine, OH : home $128,100, crime 6,992/100k
Upper Sandusky, OH : home $151,300, crime 2,262/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Hillsboro compare to other US cities?
Where Hillsboro sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value23% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety49% 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, Hillsboro ranks #163 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 Hillsboro 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 Hillsboro near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hillsboro ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hillsboro only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,020 of 1,145
11th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#643 of 1,164
45th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#196 of 1,196
83rd percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#594 of 1,196
50th 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 · 49th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hillsboro's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hillsboro'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 Hillsboro's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$136,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 77% 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
Hillsboro's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,855 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,770 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Hillsboro sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,855 of 15,516 and #5,770 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$45,197Hillsboro, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hillsboro, 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 Hillsboro, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,539
Median Income
$45,197
Median Home Value
$136,900
Median Age
41.8
Poverty Rate
17.6%
Labor force participation
51.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1396.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
75.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1321.3
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
52.3°F
Annual Precipitation
46.7"
Annual Snowfall
18.1"
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
Hillsboro's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,439 residents
2021
6,433 residents
2022
6,502 residents
2023
6,536 residents
2024
6,571 residents
2025
6,763 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
114
housing units authorized
Single-Family
92
detached homes
Multifamily
22
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
17.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$0.7M
2020
1
1
0
$0.2M
2021
62
6
56
$11.8M
2022
9
6
3
$1.3M
2023
7
5
2
$0.9M
2024
114
92
22
$33.5M
Permit volume increased 2180% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.0%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
4.2%
Based on 2,651 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 Hillsboro. 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 Hillsboro 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 Hillsboro sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hillsboro 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.