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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-LEBANON-OH · Lebanon, OH 21,216 pop · income 60th 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 Lebanon
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lebanon on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Chillicothe · lowest
49,193
Chillicothe · lowest
49,193 median HH income
49.2% of the leader · rank #1
Hennepin · near
78,594
Hennepin · near
78,594 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #2
Ingalls · near
78,594
Ingalls · near
78,594 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #3
El Rancho · near
78,594
El Rancho · near
78,594 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #4
Lebanon · this city
78,598
Lebanon · this city
78,598 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #5
Blue Ridge · near
78,598
Blue Ridge · near
78,598 median HH income
78.6% of the leader · rank #6
Hunters Creek · highest
99,942
Hunters Creek · highest
99,942 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 Lebanon 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: 21,216.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lebanon - the verdict
Nationally, Lebanon sits in the 60th percentile for household income and the 56th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
57th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
56th
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: Lebanon, OH
Lebanon is a small city in Ohio, home to 21,216 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lebanon report a median income of $78,598 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.4%. Home values in Lebanon run a median of $257,100, and the median resident age is 37.3 years. 28.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 65.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 132 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 595% from five years earlier. Lebanon reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1205.4 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,092 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Ohio run around $228, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Lebanon workers runs 19.7 minutes, with 77.2% driving alone and 10.3% working from home. 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 Lebanon'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lebanon, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 does the journey to work look like in Lebanon?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.7 minutes.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lebanon?
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 Rocky River (21,490 residents, $93,956 income); Alliance (21,574 residents, $54,608 income); South Euclid (21,606 residents, $78,782 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Montgomery, IL (21,205 residents); Snellville, GA (21,203 residents); Hunters Creek, FL (21,255 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Lebanon?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1205.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 47% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lebanon?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Lebanon?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 28.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
4.4%
Bachelor's degree+
28.7%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,243 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 132 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.
2020 estimate
20,867
2025 estimate
22,110
Period change
+6.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 4.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
B-
City profile score · Lebanon, OH
65/100
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.
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.
Poverty rate B-
4.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B-
118 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C
$78,598
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Lebanon profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.4%
Violent crime: 66/100 (B-) · 118 /100k
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,598
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.7%
Where Lebanon sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lebanon'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 - Lebanon highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Lebanon, OH (this city): home $257,100, crime 1,205/100k
Montgomery, IL : home $270,700, crime 1,027/100k
Snellville, GA : home $293,400, crime 2,258/100k
Milwaukie, OR : home $477,200, crime 1,720/100k
Carrboro, NC : home $507,100, crime 2,110/100k
Rocky River, OH : home $327,600, crime 442/100k
Alliance, OH : home $113,300, crime 2,336/100k
South Euclid, OH : home $134,800, crime 2,033/100k
Parma Heights, OH : home $165,800, crime 361/100k
Piqua, OH : home $124,900, crime 3,514/100k
Chillicothe, OH : home $145,900, crime 4,847/100k
How does Lebanon compare to other US cities?
Where Lebanon sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value57% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety56% 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: Lebanon ranks #146 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lebanon ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lebanon only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#324 of 1,145
72nd percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#171 of 1,164
85th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#746 of 1,196
37th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#324 of 1,196
73rd 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
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 56th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lebanon's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lebanon'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 Lebanon's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$257,10043rd percentilemore affordable than 43% 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
Lebanon's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,985 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,258 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, Lebanon sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,985 of 15,516 and #1,258 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$78,598Lebanon, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lebanon, 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 Lebanon, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,216
Median Income
$78,598
Median Home Value
$257,100
Median Age
37.3
Poverty Rate
4.4%
Labor force participation
65.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1205.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
118.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1087.1
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lebanon's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
20,867 residents
2021
21,230 residents
2022
21,491 residents
2023
21,771 residents
2024
21,870 residents
2025
22,110 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
132
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
124
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
19
19
0
$3.7M
2020
168
40
128
$26.9M
2021
116
59
57
$23.8M
2022
78
54
24
$16.4M
2023
47
11
36
$7.6M
2024
132
8
124
$16.1M
Permit volume increased 595% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.7 minutes
Drive Alone
77.2%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
10.3%
Other
0.9%
Based on 10,406 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 Lebanon. 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lebanon 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.