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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-NEW-LEXINGTON-OH · New Lexington, OH 4,479 pop · income 11th pct · 9 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 New Lexington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Lexington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Edenton · lowest
42,721
Edenton · lowest
42,721 median HH income
36.7% of the leader · rank #1
Fort Jones · near
43,438
Fort Jones · near
43,438 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #2
Ronceverte · near
43,445
Ronceverte · near
43,445 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #3
New Lexington · this city
43,447
New Lexington · this city
43,447 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #4
East Alto Bon… · near
43,450
East Alto Bon… · near
43,450 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #5
Fieldale · near
43,450
Fieldale · near
43,450 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #6
Millis-Clicqu… · highest
116,324
Millis-Clicqu… · highest
116,324 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for New Lexington on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 4,479.
New Lexington ranks in the 11th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
11th
percentile, household income
15th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
📝 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: New Lexington, OH
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,479 residents in New Lexington, a small town within Ohio. Households in New Lexington report a median income of $43,447 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 19.1%. Typical homes in New Lexington are valued around $114,000, and the median resident age is 34.6 years. 8.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 47.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 4 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 33% from five years earlier. NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 50.7°F with 44.4 inches of precipitation per year and 20.2 inches of snowfall.
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. 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 New Lexington'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 within-city variation to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Lexington, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in New Lexington?
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 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 19.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 9 Census tracts reveal inside New Lexington?
PlainCities matches 9 Census tracts to this city.
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.
What physical conditions frame life in New Lexington?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 50.7°F, with 44.4 inches of precipitation and 20.2 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for New Lexington?
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.
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Crestline (4,467 residents, $48,298 income); Wellington (4,514 residents, $68,510 income); Ottawa (4,439 residents, $66,268 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Millis-Clicquot, MA (4,479 residents); Beattystown, NJ (4,479 residents); Ridge Manor, FL (4,478 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.
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 New Lexington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 94.9%. 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
94.9%
Work from home
0.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,577 workers age 16+.
Is New Lexington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +39 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 4 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
4,426
2025 estimate
4,465
Period change
+0.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for New Lexington?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 8.9% 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.
Poverty estimate
19.1%
Bachelor's degree+
8.9%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 F
19.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$43,447
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
New Lexington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Poverty rate: 15/100 (F) · 19.1%
Household income: 11/100 (F) · $43,447
Bachelor's+ share: 3/100 (F) · 8.9%
How does New Lexington compare to other US cities?
Where New Lexington sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income11% higher than other cities
Home value15% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares New Lexington 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 New Lexington near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Lexington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Lexington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,041 of 1,145
9th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#840 of 1,164
28th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#158 of 1,196
87th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#978 of 1,196
18th 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
11th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How New Lexington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$114,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 85% 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
New Lexington's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,640 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,114 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, New Lexington sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,640 of 15,516 and #4,114 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
$43,447New Lexington, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Lexington, 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 New Lexington, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,479
Median Income
$43,447
Median Home Value
$114,000
Median Age
34.6
Poverty Rate
19.1%
Labor force participation
47.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.9%
Climate
Avg Temperature
50.7°F
Annual Precipitation
44.4"
Annual Snowfall
20.2"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Lexington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,426 residents
2021
4,419 residents
2022
4,434 residents
2023
4,433 residents
2024
4,445 residents
2025
4,465 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
4
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.2M
2020
7
3
4
$0.9M
2021
13
13
0
$3.7M
2022
2
2
0
$0.3M
2023
3
3
0
$0.5M
2024
4
4
0
$0.8M
Permit volume increased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
94.9%
Carpool
2.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.7%
Other
1.7%
Based on 1,577 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 New Lexington. 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 New Lexington 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 New Lexington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Lexington 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, 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.