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SheetOH-YELLOW-SPRINGS-OH · Yellow Springs, OH 3,655 pop · income 46th 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 Yellow Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Yellow Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lake Isabella · lowest
26,763
Lake Isabella · lowest
26,763 median HH income
23.6% of the leader · rank #1
Skippers Corn… · near
67,469
Skippers Corn… · near
67,469 median HH income
59.5% of the leader · rank #2
Schiller Park · near
67,473
Schiller Park · near
67,473 median HH income
59.5% of the leader · rank #3
Remlap · near
67,475
Remlap · near
67,475 median HH income
59.5% of the leader · rank #4
Yellow Springs · this city
67,477
Yellow Springs · this city
67,477 median HH income
59.5% of the leader · rank #5
Ormond Beach · near
67,482
Ormond Beach · near
67,482 median HH income
59.5% of the leader · rank #6
Forsyth · highest
113,456
Forsyth · highest
113,456 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 Yellow Springs 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: 3,655.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Yellow Springs - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Yellow Springs places in the 46th percentile for household income and the 46th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
46th
percentile, household income
62nd
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
46th
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: Yellow Springs, OH
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 3,655 residents in Yellow Springs, a small town within Ohio. The typical household in Yellow Springs brings in $67,477 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.6%. Yellow Springs's housing stock carries a median value of $279,700, and the median resident age is 53.9 years. About 62.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 54.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 6 residential building permits were authorized in Yellow Springs (Building Boom), up 50% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Yellow Springs reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1504.2 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,092 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Ohio's average monthly utility costs around $228 (state average). 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 Yellow Springs'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Yellow Springs, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
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 Yellow Springs?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Yellow Springs?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.1%. 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. 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Yellow Springs?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1504.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 34% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Yellow Springs?
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 Salem Heights CDP (Hamilton County) (3,640 residents, $92,478 income); Greenhills (3,693 residents, $74,337 income); Delshire (3,607 residents, $84,722 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are North River Shores, FL (3,655 residents); Lake Isabella, CA (3,654 residents); Forsyth, IL (3,656 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.
Population change
Is Yellow Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +27 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
3,703
2025 estimate
3,730
Period change
+0.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Yellow Springs?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 62.3% 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
0.6%
Bachelor's degree+
62.3%
Matched public schools
2
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 0.6% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
B-
City profile score · Yellow Springs, OH
69/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
62.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Household income D
$67,477
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
215 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Yellow Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 96/100 (A+) · 0.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 62.3%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Household income: 46/100 (D) · $67,477
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 215 /100k
Where Yellow Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Yellow Springs'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 - Yellow Springs highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Yellow Springs, OH (this city): home $279,700, crime 1,504/100k
Romeo, MI : home $245,700, crime 349/100k
Priceville, AL : home $233,100, crime 695/100k
Greenhills, OH : home $166,000, crime 1,598/100k
Barnesville, OH : home $102,200, crime 284/100k
Plain City, OH : home $325,400, crime 136/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Yellow Springs compare to other US cities?
Where Yellow Springs sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income46% higher than other cities
Home value62% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety46% 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, Yellow Springs ranks #176 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 Yellow Springs 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 Yellow Springs near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Yellow Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Yellow Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#528 of 1,145
54th percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#133 of 1,164
89th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#1,027 of 1,196
14th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#60 of 1,196
95th 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
46th percentile nationally for median household income · 46th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Yellow Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Yellow Springs'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 Yellow Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$279,70038th 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
Yellow Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,099 of 15,516
More affordable than 28% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,622 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.1×, Yellow Springs sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,099 of 15,516 and #8,622 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$67,477Yellow Springs, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Yellow Springs, 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 Yellow Springs, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)62.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,655
Median Income
$67,477
Median Home Value
$279,700
Median Age
53.9
Poverty Rate
0.6%
Labor force participation
54.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
62.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1504.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
214.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1289.3
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Yellow Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,703 residents
2021
3,711 residents
2022
3,726 residents
2023
3,713 residents
2024
3,732 residents
2025
3,730 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2022
4
4
0
$1.2M
2023
4
4
0
$1.4M
2024
6
6
0
$2.0M
Permit volume increased 50% from 2022 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.1%
Carpool
1.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.6%
Work from Home
19.1%
Other
4.8%
Based on 1,726 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 Yellow Springs. 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 Yellow Springs 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 Yellow Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Yellow Springs 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.