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SheetOH-XENIA-OH · Xenia, OH 25,555 pop · income 27th 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 Xenia
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Xenia on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fajardo zona… · lowest
24,305
Fajardo zona… · lowest
24,305 median HH income
18.5% of the leader · rank #1
Tupper Lake · near
54,613
Tupper Lake · near
54,613 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #2
Syracuse · near
54,615
Syracuse · near
54,615 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #3
Fountain Hill · near
54,615
Fountain Hill · near
54,615 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #4
Groesbeck · near
54,615
Groesbeck · near
54,615 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #5
Xenia · this city
54,616
Xenia · this city
54,616 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #6
Nocatee · highest
131,488
Nocatee · highest
131,488 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 Xenia 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: 25,555.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Xenia - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Xenia lands in the 27th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
27th
percentile, household income
26th
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
39th
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: Xenia, OH
Xenia is a small city in Ohio, home to 25,555 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Xenia report a median income of $54,616 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 13.1%. Home values in Xenia run a median of $147,300, and the median resident age is 39.6 years. 21.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 54.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 257 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 424% from five years earlier. Xenia reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1739.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Xenia's yearly average temperature at 53.7°F with 43.3 inches of precipitation per year and 20.3 inches of snowfall.
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 23.2 minutes, with 86.3% driving alone and 5.2% 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 Xenia'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to climate and hazard context to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Xenia, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Xenia?
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 Avon Lake (25,456 residents, $110,174 income); Avon (25,082 residents, $126,618 income); Medina (26,040 residents, $76,099 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Happy Valley, OR (25,572 residents); Cliffside Park, NJ (25,580 residents); Nocatee, FL (25,581 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.
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 12 public schools within the city match. 21.2% 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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.2 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. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Xenia?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1739.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% 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.
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.
Population change
Is Xenia growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +955 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 257 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
25,470
2025 estimate
26,425
Period change
+3.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 53.7°F, with 43.3 inches of precipitation and 20.3 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Ohio is 55.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
55.0
Annual precipitation
43.3 in
Mean temperature
53.7°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Xenia?
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 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.7×
Home value
$147,300
Household income
$54,616
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 13.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
D
City profile score · Xenia, OH
40/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
279 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$54,616
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Xenia profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 38/100 (F) · 21.2%
Violent crime: 36/100 (F) · 279 /100k
Household income: 27/100 (F) · $54,616
Poverty rate: 27/100 (F) · 13.1%
Where Xenia sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Xenia'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 - Xenia highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Xenia, OH (this city): home $147,300, crime 1,739/100k
Cliffside Park, NJ : home $577,200, crime 770/100k
Tarpon Springs, FL : home $321,000, crime 1,792/100k
Avon Lake, OH : home $337,200, crime 310/100k
Avon, OH : home $377,100, crime 970/100k
Medina, OH : home $231,700, crime 871/100k
Perrysburg, OH : home $306,500, crime 474/100k
Barberton, OH : home $120,100, crime 2,380/100k
Centerville, OH : home $262,300, crime 1,046/100k
How does Xenia compare to other US cities?
Xenia measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income27% higher than other cities
Home value26% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety39% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Ohio and the picture shifts: Xenia ranks #191 of 281 Ohio cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Xenia 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 Xenia near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Xenia ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Xenia only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#810 of 1,145
29th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#565 of 1,164
51st percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#315 of 1,196
73rd percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#496 of 1,196
58th 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
27th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Xenia's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Xenia'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 Xenia's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$147,300Among 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
Xenia's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,021 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#547 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Xenia sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,021 of 15,516 and #547 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
$54,616Xenia, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Xenia, 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 Xenia, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,555
Median Income
$54,616
Median Home Value
$147,300
Median Age
39.6
Poverty Rate
13.1%
Labor force participation
54.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1739.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
278.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1460.1
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
53.7°F
Annual Precipitation
43.3"
Annual Snowfall
20.3"
Schools
Total Schools
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Xenia's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,470 residents
2021
25,551 residents
2022
25,609 residents
2023
25,764 residents
2024
26,005 residents
2025
26,425 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
257
housing units authorized
Single-Family
159
detached homes
Multifamily
98
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2023
49
49
0
$11.4M
2024
257
159
98
$64.9M
Permit volume increased 424% from 2023 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.2 minutes
Drive Alone
86.3%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
5.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 11,215 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 Xenia. 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 Xenia 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 Xenia sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Xenia 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.