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SheetOH-UPPER-ARLINGTON-OH · Upper Arlington, OH 36,319 pop · income 94th 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 Upper Arlington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Upper Arlington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lima · lowest
43,370
Lima · lowest
43,370 median HH income
25.5% of the leader · rank #1
Third Lake · near
150,893
Third Lake · near
150,893 median HH income
88.6% of the leader · rank #2
Naperville · near
150,937
Naperville · near
150,937 median HH income
88.6% of the leader · rank #3
Glenview Hills · near
150,938
Glenview Hills · near
150,938 median HH income
88.6% of the leader · rank #4
Upper Arlingt… · this city
150,993
Upper Arlingt… · this city
150,993 median HH income
88.6% of the leader · rank #5
South Hunting… · near
151,078
South Hunting… · near
151,078 median HH income
88.7% of the leader · rank #6
Commack · highest
170,375
Commack · highest
170,375 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 Upper Arlington 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: 36,319.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Upper Arlington - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Upper Arlington lands in the 94th percentile for household income and the 71st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
94th
percentile, household income
88th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
71st
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: Upper Arlington, OH
Ohio's Upper Arlington is a small city, with 36,319 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Upper Arlington brings in $150,993 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Home values in Upper Arlington run a median of $568,200, and the median resident age is 40.6 years. About 79.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 22 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), down 4% from five years earlier. Upper Arlington reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 827.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. 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. Commute times here average 14.8 minutes, with 68.9% driving alone and 24.7% 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 Upper Arlington'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 work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Upper Arlington, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, 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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Upper Arlington?
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 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Upper Arlington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.8 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.
What does the education layer cover for Upper Arlington?
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 9 public schools within the city match. 79.2% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Upper Arlington?
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 Hilliard (36,560 residents, $122,864 income); North Ridgeville (36,043 residents, $94,234 income); Marion (35,771 residents, $45,829 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodstock, GA (36,297 residents); Merrillville, IN (36,343 residents); Commack, NY (36,353 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 Upper Arlington?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 827.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 64% 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
827.4
Violent rate
28.2
Property rate
799.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Upper Arlington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -853 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 22 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.
2020 estimate
36,746
2025 estimate
35,893
Period change
-2.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.4% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
A+
City profile score · Upper Arlington, OH
90/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
79.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$150,993
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A+
28 /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.
Upper Arlington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 79.2%
Household income: 96/100 (A+) · $150,993
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Violent crime: 90/100 (A+) · 28 /100k
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Where Upper Arlington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Upper Arlington'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 - Upper Arlington highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Upper Arlington, OH (this city): home $568,200, crime 827/100k
Woodstock, GA : home $387,300, crime 1,081/100k
Douglasville, GA : home $313,500, crime 5,168/100k
Farmers Branch, TX : home $322,000, crime 2,749/100k
Socorro, TX : home $131,200, crime 954/100k
Hilliard, OH : home $360,000, crime 1,051/100k
Marion, OH : home $105,900, crime 1,767/100k
Gahanna, OH : home $322,300, crime 2,073/100k
Lima, OH : home $95,900, crime 4,127/100k
Brunswick, OH : home $233,300, crime 449/100k
How does Upper Arlington compare to other US cities?
Where Upper Arlington sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value88% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety71% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Ohio, Upper Arlington ranks #91 of 281 Ohio cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Upper Arlington 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 Upper Arlington near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Upper Arlington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Upper Arlington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#39 of 1,145
97th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#16 of 1,164
99th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#982 of 1,196
18th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#9 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income · 71st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Upper Arlington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Upper Arlington'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 Upper Arlington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$568,20012th percentilemore affordable than 12% 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
#9,930 of 15,516
More affordable than 36% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,751 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.8×, Upper Arlington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,930 of 15,516 and #1,751 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
$150,993Upper Arlington, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Upper Arlington, 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 Upper Arlington, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)79.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,319
Median Income
$150,993
Median Home Value
$568,200
Median Age
40.6
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
65.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
79.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
827.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
28.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
799.2
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Upper Arlington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,746 residents
2021
36,294 residents
2022
36,090 residents
2023
35,992 residents
2024
36,059 residents
2025
35,893 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
22
housing units authorized
Single-Family
22
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
23
23
0
$22.1M
2020
36
28
8
$29.3M
2021
30
24
6
$23.9M
2022
28
22
6
$22.3M
2023
20
20
0
$18.5M
2024
22
22
0
$20.3M
Permit volume decreased 4% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.8 minutes
Drive Alone
68.9%
Carpool
3.2%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
24.7%
Other
2.0%
Based on 17,846 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 Upper Arlington. 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 Upper Arlington 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 Upper Arlington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Upper Arlington 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.