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SheetOH-WESTLAKE-OH · Westlake, OH 34,036 pop · income 83rd 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 Westlake
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Westlake on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lima · lowest
43,370
Lima · lowest
43,370 median HH income
19.8% of the leader · rank #1
Mount Taylor · near
110,083
Mount Taylor · near
110,083 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #2
Oreland · near
110,100
Oreland · near
110,100 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #3
Westlake · this city
110,101
Westlake · this city
110,101 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #4
Greenville · near
110,103
Greenville · near
110,103 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #5
Crab Orchard · near
110,125
Crab Orchard · near
110,125 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #6
Lexington · highest
219,402
Lexington · highest
219,402 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 Westlake 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: 34,036.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Westlake - the verdict
Westlake ranks in the 83rd percentile for household income and the 78th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
83rd
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
78th
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: Westlake, OH
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 34,036 residents in Westlake, a small city within Ohio. Median household income here is $110,101 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.9%. Typical homes in Westlake are valued around $336,100, and the median resident age is 47.1 years. Educational attainment runs 58.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 74 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 90% from five years earlier. Westlake reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 678.6 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: 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. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 19.1 minutes, with 73.4% driving alone and 19.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Westlake'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 population change to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility 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 Westlake, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, 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. Population change
Is Westlake growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -295 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 74 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Westlake?
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Stow (34,317 residents, $91,933 income); Fairborn (34,506 residents, $55,966 income); Mason (35,148 residents, $124,407 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Crown Point, IN (34,042 residents); Kearney, NE (34,024 residents); Syracuse, UT (34,009 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 Westlake?
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 3.9%, 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 journey to work look like in Westlake?
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 73.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.1 minutes.
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 Westlake?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 58.4% 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
5
Bachelor's degree+
58.4%
Poverty estimate
3.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Westlake?
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 678.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 70% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
649.3
Violent rate
29.2
Total reported rate
678.6
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+
58.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A
29 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income A-
$110,101
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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
3.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Westlake profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 91/100 (A+) · 58.4%
Violent crime: 89/100 (A) · 29 /100k
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $110,101
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 3.9%
Where Westlake sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Westlake'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 - Westlake highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Westlake, OH (this city): home $336,100, crime 679/100k
Crown Point, IN : home $272,800, crime 608/100k
Kearney, NE : home $235,800, crime 1,926/100k
Syracuse, UT : home $531,600, crime 553/100k
Eastpointe, MI : home $129,100, crime 2,992/100k
Lexington, MA : home $1,147,900, crime 387/100k
San Dimas, CA : home $756,200, crime 2,565/100k
Stow, OH : home $238,000, crime 1,870/100k
Fairborn, OH : home $169,600, crime 1,567/100k
Mason, OH : home $397,900, crime 565/100k
Brunswick, OH : home $233,300, crime 449/100k
Lima, OH : home $95,900, crime 4,127/100k
Gahanna, OH : home $322,300, crime 2,073/100k
How does Westlake compare to other US cities?
Westlake measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety78% 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, Westlake ranks #70 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 Westlake 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 Westlake near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Westlake ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Westlake only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#107 of 1,145
91st percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#80 of 1,164
93rd percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#783 of 1,196
34th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#72 of 1,196
94th 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income · 78th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Westlake's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Westlake'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 Westlake's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$336,10030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Westlake's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,963 of 15,516
More affordable than 55% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#981 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Westlake sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,963 of 15,516 and #981 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
$110,101Westlake, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Westlake, 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 Westlake, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)58.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
34,036
Median Income
$110,101
Median Home Value
$336,100
Median Age
47.1
Poverty Rate
3.9%
Labor force participation
58.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
58.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
678.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
29.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
649.3
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
Westlake's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
34,199 residents
2021
33,916 residents
2022
33,786 residents
2023
33,881 residents
2024
33,828 residents
2025
33,904 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
74
housing units authorized
Single-Family
74
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
39
39
0
$18.1M
2020
58
51
7
$23.5M
2021
132
132
0
$46.3M
2022
121
121
0
$52.5M
2023
48
48
0
$34.4M
2024
74
74
0
$37.3M
Permit volume increased 90% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.1 minutes
Drive Alone
73.4%
Carpool
5.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
19.2%
Other
0.7%
Based on 16,119 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 Westlake. 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 Westlake 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 Westlake sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Westlake 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.