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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-PEPPER-PIKE-OH · Pepper Pike, OH 6,807 pop · income 99th 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 Pepper Pike
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pepper Pike on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Osceola · lowest
40,783
Osceola · lowest
40,783 median HH income
18.9% of the leader · rank #1
Anchorage · near
215,156
Anchorage · near
215,156 median HH income
99.7% of the leader · rank #2
Pepper Pike · this city
215,373
Pepper Pike · this city
215,373 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #3
Bronxville · near
215,726
Bronxville · near
215,726 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Inverness · near
215,810
Inverness · near
215,810 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Searingtown · highest
215,817
Searingtown · highest
215,817 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Pepper Pike 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: 6,807.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pepper Pike - the verdict
Nationally, Pepper Pike sits in the 99th percentile for household income and the 84th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
99th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
84th
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: Pepper Pike, OH
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 6,807 residents in Pepper Pike, a small town within Ohio. Households in Pepper Pike report a median income of $215,373 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.3%. Home values in Pepper Pike run a median of $558,300, and the median resident age is 47.6 years. 80.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 37 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 35% from five years earlier. Pepper Pike reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 537.6 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: 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Ohio's average monthly utility costs around $228 (state average). 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 Pepper Pike'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 housing and income to schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pepper Pike, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits.
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.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Pepper Pike?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Pepper Pike?
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 1.3%, 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.
What does the education layer cover for Pepper Pike?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 80.9% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pepper Pike?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Columbiana (6,800 residents, $49,873 income); Huron (6,824 residents, $73,429 income); Chesterland (6,862 residents, $98,234 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Osceola, AR (6,807 residents); Loomis, CA (6,809 residents); South Hill, NY (6,805 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.
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 Pepper Pike?
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 537.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 76% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
537.6
Violent rate
0.0
Total reported rate
537.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Pepper Pike 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 +118 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 37 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+1.7%
2025 estimate
6,886
2020 estimate
6,768
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.3% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
A+
City profile score · Pepper Pike, OH
93/100
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.
Household income A+
$215,373
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
80.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A+
1.3%
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.
Pepper Pike profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $215,373
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 80.9%
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Poverty rate: 91/100 (A+) · 1.3%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Where Pepper Pike sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pepper Pike'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 - Pepper Pike highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Pepper Pike, OH (this city): home $558,300, crime 538/100k
Murphysboro, IL : home $79,600, crime 3,466/100k
Lake Alfred, FL : home $226,800, crime 1,098/100k
Litchfield, IL : home $100,500, crime 3,366/100k
Columbiana, OH : home $187,000, crime 381/100k
Huron, OH : home $205,900, crime 363/100k
Union, OH : home $138,800, crime 1,204/100k
Mount Healthy, OH : home $126,200, crime 2,893/100k
How does Pepper Pike compare to other US cities?
Here's how Pepper Pike stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety84% 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, Pepper Pike ranks #49 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 Pepper Pike 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 Pepper Pike near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pepper Pike ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pepper Pike only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#7 of 1,145
99th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#17 of 1,164
99th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#987 of 1,196
17th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#6 of 1,196
99th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income · 84th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pepper Pike's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pepper Pike'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 Pepper Pike's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$558,30013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
Pepper Pike's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,469 of 15,516
More affordable than 71% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,981 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Pepper Pike sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,469 of 15,516 and #3,981 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
$215,373Pepper Pike, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pepper Pike, 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 Pepper Pike, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)80.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,807
Median Income
$215,373
Median Home Value
$558,300
Median Age
47.6
Poverty Rate
1.3%
Labor force participation
62.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
80.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
537.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
537.6
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
Pepper Pike's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,768 residents
2021
6,783 residents
2022
6,772 residents
2023
6,786 residents
2024
6,802 residents
2025
6,886 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
37
housing units authorized
Single-Family
37
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
57
53
4
$17.0M
2020
32
32
0
$15.2M
2021
22
22
0
$12.9M
2022
20
20
0
$16.6M
2023
13
13
0
$11.9M
2024
37
37
0
$22.4M
Permit volume decreased 35% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.0%
Carpool
7.9%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
18.5%
Based on 3,418 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 Pepper Pike. 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 Pepper Pike 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 Pepper Pike sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pepper Pike 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.