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SheetOH-ORRVILLE-OH · Orrville, OH 8,361 pop · income 50th 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 Orrville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Orrville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Virginia · lowest
48,321
Virginia · lowest
48,321 median HH income
19.3% of the leader · rank #1
Aplington · near
70,093
Aplington · near
70,093 median HH income
28.0% of the leader · rank #2
Temple Hills · near
70,097
Temple Hills · near
70,097 median HH income
28.0% of the leader · rank #3
Gresham Park · near
70,101
Gresham Park · near
70,101 median HH income
28.0% of the leader · rank #4
Orrville · this city
70,103
Orrville · this city
70,103 median HH income
28.0% of the leader · rank #5
Santa Fe · near
70,110
Santa Fe · near
70,110 median HH income
28.0% of the leader · rank #6
Los Altos Hil… · highest
250,001
Los Altos Hil… · highest
250,001 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 Orrville 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: 8,361.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Orrville - the verdict
Nationally, Orrville sits in the 50th percentile for household income and the 89th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
50th
percentile, household income
36th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
89th
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: Orrville, OH
Orrville is a small town in Ohio, home to 8,361 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $70,103 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.7%. Typical homes in Orrville are valued around $178,500, and the median resident age is 39.2 years. Educational attainment runs 27.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 60.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Orrville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 404.3 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,092 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 19.7 minutes, with 74.7% driving alone and 4.4% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Orrville'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 schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Orrville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
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
Is Orrville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.0% 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.
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.
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 4 public schools within the city match. 27.2% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Orrville?
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 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Orrville?
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 Eaton (8,353 residents, $51,731 income); St. Marys (8,319 residents, $72,056 income); North Madison (8,309 residents, $60,875 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Virginia, MN (8,362 residents); Hood River, OR (8,360 residents); Ogden, NC (8,363 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Orrville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 404.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 82% 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.
Total reported rate
404.3
Violent rate
107.0
Property rate
297.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Orrville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.7%. 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.
Drive alone
74.7%
Work from home
4.4%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,047 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 6.7% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
C+
City profile score · Orrville, OH
60/100
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.
Violent crime B-
107 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
6.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$70,103
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Orrville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 69/100 (B-) · 107 /100k
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 53/100 (C-) · 27.2%
Household income: 49/100 (D) · $70,103
Where Orrville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Orrville'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 - Orrville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Orrville, OH (this city): home $178,500, crime 404/100k
Virginia, MN : home $117,500, crime 2,557/100k
Hood River, OR : home $602,800, crime 2,398/100k
Payette, ID : home $247,700, crime 1,286/100k
Park City, UT : home $1,739,700, crime 2,378/100k
Los Altos Hills, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 408/100k
Eaton, OH : home $134,700, crime 1,427/100k
Grandview Heights, OH : home $548,100, crime 2,144/100k
How does Orrville compare to other US cities?
Orrville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income50% higher than other cities
Home value36% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety89% 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: Orrville ranks #32 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 Orrville 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 Orrville near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Orrville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Orrville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#480 of 1,145
58th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#397 of 1,164
66th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#587 of 1,196
50th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#357 of 1,196
70th 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
50th percentile nationally for median household income · 89th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Orrville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Orrville'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 Orrville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$178,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 64% 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
Orrville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,239 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,803 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Orrville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,239 of 15,516 and #3,803 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
$70,103Orrville, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Orrville, 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 Orrville, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,361
Median Income
$70,103
Median Home Value
$178,500
Median Age
39.2
Poverty Rate
6.7%
Labor force participation
60.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
404.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
107.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
297.3
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.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Orrville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,459 residents
2021
8,468 residents
2022
8,455 residents
2023
8,452 residents
2024
8,460 residents
2025
8,461 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.7 minutes
Drive Alone
74.7%
Carpool
14.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
4.4%
Other
3.8%
Based on 4,047 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 Orrville. 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 Orrville 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 Orrville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Orrville 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.