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SheetOH-RICHMOND-HEIGHTS-OH · Richmond Heights, OH 10,677 pop · income 30th 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 Richmond Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Richmond Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ironton · lowest
45,694
Ironton · lowest
45,694 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #1
Morgan City · near
56,729
Morgan City · near
56,729 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #2
Turners Falls · near
56,729
Turners Falls · near
56,729 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #3
Bainbridge · near
56,731
Bainbridge · near
56,731 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #4
Richmond Heig… · this city
56,734
Richmond Heig… · this city
56,734 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #5
Charles City · near
56,734
Charles City · near
56,734 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #6
Montgomery · highest
148,438
Montgomery · highest
148,438 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 Richmond Heights 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: 10,677.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Richmond Heights - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Richmond Heights places in the 30th percentile for household income and the 65th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
30th
percentile, household income
35th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
65th
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: Richmond Heights, OH
10,677 people live in Richmond Heights, Ohio - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $56,734 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.4%. Home values in Richmond Heights run a median of $176,100, and the median resident age is 50.9 years. About 31.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 0 residential units were authorized in 2024 (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier. Richmond Heights reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 980.1 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Ohio run around $228, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Richmond Heights report an average commute of 22.2 minutes, with 73.7% driving alone and 15.1% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.0 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Richmond Heights'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 population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Richmond Heights, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
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 Richmond Heights?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.2 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. 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.
Is Richmond Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -302 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Richmond Heights?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Richmond Heights?
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 Van Wert (10,710 residents, $53,632 income); Northbrook (10,741 residents, $63,486 income); Ironton (10,585 residents, $45,694 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pine Ridge CDP (Citrus County), FL (10,676 residents); Lake Barcroft, VA (10,678 residents); Yorkshire, VA (10,678 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Richmond Heights?
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. 31.2% 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.
Poverty estimate
4.4%
Bachelor's degree+
31.2%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Richmond Heights?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 980.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 57% 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
980.1
Violent rate
76.1
Property rate
904.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 4.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
C+
City profile score · Richmond Heights, OH
61/100
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.
Violent crime B+
76 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Poverty rate B-
4.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$56,734
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Richmond Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 76 /100k
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 60/100 (C+) · 31.2%
Household income: 30/100 (F) · $56,734
Where Richmond Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Richmond Heights'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 - Richmond Heights highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Richmond Heights, OH (this city): home $176,100, crime 980/100k
Calimesa, CA : home $423,300, crime 1,852/100k
Sumner, WA : home $478,500, crime 3,653/100k
Lenoir City, TN : home $214,300, crime 1,951/100k
Van Wert, OH : home $109,700, crime 3,485/100k
Ironton, OH : home $112,400, crime 745/100k
Heath, OH : home $215,000, crime 4,536/100k
Montgomery, OH : home $505,800, crime 696/100k
How does Richmond Heights compare to other US cities?
Richmond Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income30% higher than other cities
Home value35% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety65% 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, Richmond Heights ranks #113 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 Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Richmond Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Richmond Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#760 of 1,145
34th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#404 of 1,164
65th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#746 of 1,196
37th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#284 of 1,196
76th 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
30th percentile nationally for median household income · 65th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Richmond Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Richmond Heights'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 Richmond Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$176,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 65% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,208 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,052 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Richmond Heights sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,208 of 15,516 and #1,052 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
$56,734Richmond Heights, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Richmond Heights, 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 Richmond Heights, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,677
Median Income
$56,734
Median Home Value
$176,100
Median Age
50.9
Poverty Rate
4.4%
Labor force participation
56.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
980.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
76.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
904.0
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Richmond Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,777 residents
2021
10,629 residents
2022
10,570 residents
2023
10,530 residents
2024
10,478 residents
2025
10,475 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11
11
0
$1.7M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
3
3
0
$0.3M
2022
1
1
0
$0.2M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.2 minutes
Drive Alone
73.7%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
15.1%
Other
2.5%
Based on 5,148 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 Richmond Heights. 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 Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Richmond Heights 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.