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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-MUNROE-FALLS-OH · Munroe Falls, OH 5,019 pop · income 56th 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 Munroe Falls
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Munroe Falls on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Silverton · lowest
49,563
Silverton · lowest
49,563 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #1
Fox River · near
75,083
Fox River · near
75,083 median HH income
77.4% of the leader · rank #2
Munroe Falls · this city
75,089
Munroe Falls · this city
75,089 median HH income
77.4% of the leader · rank #3
Winifred · near
75,089
Winifred · near
75,089 median HH income
77.4% of the leader · rank #4
Centennial Pa… · near
75,094
Centennial Pa… · near
75,094 median HH income
77.4% of the leader · rank #5
Welda · near
75,096
Welda · near
75,096 median HH income
77.4% of the leader · rank #6
Apple Valley · highest
97,005
Apple Valley · highest
97,005 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 Munroe Falls 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: 5,019.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Munroe Falls - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Munroe Falls places in the 56th percentile for household income and the 98th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
56th
percentile, household income
49th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
98th
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: Munroe Falls, OH
5,019 people live in Munroe Falls, Ohio - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Munroe Falls households earn a median of $75,089 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.3%. Home values in Munroe Falls run a median of $223,800, and the median resident age is 48.6 years. Educational attainment runs 38.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 53.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Munroe Falls reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 81.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,092 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Ohio's average monthly utility costs around $228 (state average). 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 Munroe Falls'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Munroe Falls, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, 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 Munroe Falls?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 81.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 96% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Munroe Falls?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.1%. 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. 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 Munroe Falls?
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 Summerside (5,001 residents, $67,870 income); St. Clairsville (5,043 residents, $73,534 income); Apple Valley (5,125 residents, $97,005 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lake City, MN (5,021 residents); Ellisburg, NJ (5,021 residents); Hudson, TX (5,017 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 Munroe Falls?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 38.1% 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.
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.
Population change
Is Munroe Falls growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -68 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.3% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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.
2020 estimate
5,041
2025 estimate
4,973
Period change
-1.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Munroe Falls?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$223,800
Household income
$75,089
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.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A-
2.3%
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.
Bachelor's+ share B
38.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$75,089
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Munroe Falls profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.3%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.1%
Household income: 55/100 (C) · $75,089
Where Munroe Falls sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Munroe Falls'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 - Munroe Falls highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Munroe Falls, OH (this city): home $223,800, crime 81/100k
Lake City, MN : home $234,100, crime 975/100k
Hudson, TX : home $169,000, crime 377/100k
Bluefield, VA : home $161,100, crime 3,179/100k
Odenville, AL : home $220,900, crime 1,001/100k
Swoyersville, PA : home $137,000, crime 814/100k
St. Clairsville, OH : home $197,600, crime 142/100k
Northwood, OH : home $168,400, crime 2,124/100k
How does Munroe Falls compare to other US cities?
Here's how Munroe Falls stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income56% higher than other cities
Home value49% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety98% 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: Munroe Falls ranks #2 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 Munroe Falls 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 Munroe Falls near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Munroe Falls ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Munroe Falls only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#368 of 1,145
68th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#243 of 1,164
79th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#920 of 1,196
22nd percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#187 of 1,196
84th 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
56th percentile nationally for median household income · 98th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Munroe Falls's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Munroe Falls'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 Munroe Falls's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$223,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 51% 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
Munroe Falls's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,592 of 15,516
More affordable than 58% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,596 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Munroe Falls sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,592 of 15,516 and #5,596 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$75,089Munroe Falls, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Munroe Falls, 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 Munroe Falls, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,019
Median Income
$75,089
Median Home Value
$223,800
Median Age
48.6
Poverty Rate
2.3%
Labor force participation
53.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
81.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
81.0
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Munroe Falls's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,041 residents
2021
5,030 residents
2022
5,009 residents
2023
4,972 residents
2024
4,976 residents
2025
4,973 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.1%
Carpool
11.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
9.8%
Other
0.6%
Based on 2,193 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 Munroe Falls. 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 Munroe Falls 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 Munroe Falls sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Munroe Falls 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.