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SheetOH-WAPAKONETA-OH · Wapakoneta, OH 9,867 pop · income 38th pct · 11 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 Wapakoneta
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wapakoneta on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Liverpool · lowest
37,262
East Liverpool · lowest
37,262 median HH income
22.6% of the leader · rank #1
Bernalillo · near
61,624
Bernalillo · near
61,624 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #2
Holstein · near
61,625
Holstein · near
61,625 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #3
Bradley · near
61,625
Bradley · near
61,625 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #4
Wapakoneta · this city
61,628
Wapakoneta · this city
61,628 median HH income
37.5% of the leader · rank #5
Sparta · near
61,630
Sparta · near
61,630 median HH income
37.5% of the leader · rank #6
Succasunna · highest
164,555
Succasunna · highest
164,555 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 Wapakoneta 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: 9,867.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wapakoneta - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Wapakoneta lands in the 38th percentile for household income and the 56th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
38th
percentile, household income
26th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
56th
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: Wapakoneta, OH
Ohio's Wapakoneta is a small town, with 9,867 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Wapakoneta households earn a median of $61,628 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.1%. Wapakoneta's housing stock carries a median value of $146,000, and the median resident age is 42.1 years. Educational attainment runs 18.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 22 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 29% from five years earlier. Wapakoneta reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1192.1 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. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Wapakoneta'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 within-city variation to population change to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wapakoneta, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Wapakoneta?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 11 Census tracts reveal inside Wapakoneta?
PlainCities matches 11 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Is Wapakoneta growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -241 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.4% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wapakoneta?
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 East Liverpool (9,869 residents, $37,262 income); Willoughby Hills (9,979 residents, $61,641 income); Struthers (9,995 residents, $51,894 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Succasunna, NJ (9,866 residents); Jesup, GA (9,863 residents); Peru, IL (9,863 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.
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 Wapakoneta?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1192.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 48% 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
1192.1
Violent rate
92.5
Property rate
1099.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Wapakoneta?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 18.8% 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
11.1%
Bachelor's degree+
18.8%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Wapakoneta?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
85.3%
Work from home
7.4%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,807 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 11.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
C-
City profile score · Wapakoneta, OH
51/100
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
93 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$61,628
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Wapakoneta profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Violent crime: 73/100 (B) · 93 /100k
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,628
Poverty rate: 35/100 (F) · 11.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.8%
Where Wapakoneta sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wapakoneta'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 - Wapakoneta highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Wapakoneta, OH (this city): home $146,000, crime 1,192/100k
Peru, IL : home $155,600, crime 1,890/100k
Ingleside, TX : home $179,300, crime 2,178/100k
Bristol, PA : home $236,400, crime 1,336/100k
East Liverpool, OH : home $78,100, crime 1,142/100k
Struthers, OH : home $92,800, crime 1,357/100k
Cambridge, OH : home $116,000, crime 2,064/100k
North College Hill, OH : home $125,200, crime 4,085/100k
How does Wapakoneta compare to other US cities?
Wapakoneta measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value26% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety56% 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, Wapakoneta ranks #143 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 Wapakoneta 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 Wapakoneta near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wapakoneta ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wapakoneta only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#660 of 1,145
42nd percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#575 of 1,164
51st percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#381 of 1,196
68th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#569 of 1,196
52nd 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
38th percentile nationally for median household income · 56th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wapakoneta's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wapakoneta'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 Wapakoneta's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$146,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 74% 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
Wapakoneta's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,326 of 15,516
More affordable than 79% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,042 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.4×, Wapakoneta sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,326 of 15,516 and #3,042 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
$61,628Wapakoneta, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wapakoneta, 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 Wapakoneta, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,867
Median Income
$61,628
Median Home Value
$146,000
Median Age
42.1
Poverty Rate
11.1%
Labor force participation
59.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1192.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
92.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1099.6
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wapakoneta's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,952 residents
2021
9,876 residents
2022
9,757 residents
2023
9,764 residents
2024
9,760 residents
2025
9,711 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
22
housing units authorized
Single-Family
22
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
17
17
0
$3.3M
2020
19
19
0
$3.7M
2021
22
22
0
$4.3M
2022
20
20
0
$3.9M
2023
20
20
0
$3.9M
2024
22
22
0
$4.3M
Permit volume increased 29% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
85.3%
Carpool
3.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.0%
Work from Home
7.4%
Based on 4,807 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 Wapakoneta. 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 Wapakoneta 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 Wapakoneta sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wapakoneta 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.