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SheetOH-STRONGSVILLE-OH · Strongsville, OH 46,022 pop · income 79th pct · 42 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 Strongsville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Strongsville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mansfield · lowest
42,605
Mansfield · lowest
42,605 median HH income
17.8% of the leader · rank #1
Oyster Bay · near
102,540
Oyster Bay · near
102,540 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #2
Strongsville · this city
102,574
Strongsville · this city
102,574 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #3
Cave Creek · near
102,589
Cave Creek · near
102,589 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #4
Wayton · near
102,596
Wayton · near
102,596 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #5
Lake Ronkonko… · near
102,608
Lake Ronkonko… · near
102,608 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #6
Potomac · highest
239,205
Potomac · highest
239,205 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 Strongsville 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: 46,022.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Strongsville - the verdict
Nationally, Strongsville sits in the 79th percentile for household income and the 50th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
79th
percentile, household income
62nd
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
50th
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: Strongsville, OH
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 46,022 residents in Strongsville, a small city within Ohio. Strongsville households earn a median of $102,574 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.7%. Strongsville's housing stock carries a median value of $279,600, and the median resident age is 46.0 years. About 48.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 95 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 116% from five years earlier. Strongsville reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1355.3 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Ohio at 92.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). 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). Workers in Strongsville report an average commute of 21.0 minutes, with 73.6% driving alone and 17.7% 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 Strongsville'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to within-city variation to schools and households to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Strongsville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Strongsville?
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 73.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.0 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Strongsville?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Beavercreek (46,787 residents, $110,064 income); Mentor (47,215 residents, $89,202 income); Cleveland Heights (44,694 residents, $72,302 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Urbandale, IA (46,026 residents); Arlington, MA (46,015 residents); Charlottesville, VA (45,863 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Strongsville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.7%, 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 can 42 Census tracts reveal inside Strongsville?
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.
PlainCities matches 42 Census tracts to this city.
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 Strongsville?
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 48.2% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
10
Bachelor's degree+
48.2%
Poverty estimate
3.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Strongsville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -793 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 95 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
45,629
2020 estimate
46,422
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Strongsville?
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 1355.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 41% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1282.9
Violent rate
72.4
Total reported rate
1355.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
48.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$102,574
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B+
72 /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
3.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Strongsville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 48.2%
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $102,574
Violent crime: 78/100 (B+) · 72 /100k
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.7%
Where Strongsville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Strongsville'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 - Strongsville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Strongsville, OH (this city): home $279,600, crime 1,355/100k
Urbandale, IA : home $318,800, crime 724/100k
Arlington, MA : home $885,000, crime 490/100k
Charlottesville, VA : home $448,400, crime 3,550/100k
Huntington, WV : home $118,800, crime 4,403/100k
Beavercreek, OH : home $261,200, crime 2,068/100k
Mentor, OH : home $229,500, crime 1,473/100k
Cleveland Heights, OH : home $176,700, crime 1,551/100k
Fairfield, OH : home $218,100, crime 1,659/100k
Huber Heights, OH : home $161,900, crime 1,988/100k
How does Strongsville compare to other US cities?
Strongsville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value62% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety50% 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, Strongsville ranks #160 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 Strongsville 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 Strongsville near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Strongsville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Strongsville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#136 of 1,145
88th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#134 of 1,164
88th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#802 of 1,196
32nd percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#116 of 1,196
90th 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income · 50th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Strongsville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Strongsville'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 Strongsville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$279,60038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Strongsville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,165 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#577 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Strongsville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,165 of 15,516 and #577 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$102,574Strongsville, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Strongsville, 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 Strongsville, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
46,022
Median Income
$102,574
Median Home Value
$279,600
Median Age
46.0
Poverty Rate
3.7%
Labor force participation
61.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1355.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
72.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1282.9
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Strongsville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
46,422 residents
2021
46,097 residents
2022
45,697 residents
2023
45,560 residents
2024
45,519 residents
2025
45,629 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
95
housing units authorized
Single-Family
13
detached homes
Multifamily
82
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
44
44
0
$16.9M
2020
74
74
0
$26.7M
2021
30
30
0
$11.1M
2022
14
14
0
$5.7M
2023
14
14
0
$4.9M
2024
95
13
82
$23.3M
Permit volume increased 116% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.0 minutes
Drive Alone
73.6%
Carpool
5.8%
Public Transit
1.1%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
17.7%
Other
0.8%
Based on 22,771 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 Strongsville. 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 Strongsville 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 Strongsville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Strongsville 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.