44004Ashtabula, Ohio

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 44004.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity4610th of 6,210 published ZIP areas43
Schools3457th of 4,422 published ZIP areas29
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 6,685 published ZIP areas97
Climate5091st of 6,789 published ZIP areas62
Physical resilienceTop 6% of 6,709 published ZIP areas93
Access5088th of 6,791 published ZIP areas83
Economic stability6144th of 6,742 published ZIP areas30
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 3.6% and the Opportunity signal places 44004 in the bottom 26%.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 19% of median household income and the median home is 2.5 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 44004 in the top 6% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
31,114
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$51,034
Bottom 16% nationally
Density
419/sq mi
74.2 sq mi of land
Median age
43.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Ashtabula
Ohio
Metro area
Cleveland, OH
Nearest major airport
ERI
35 mi · Erie Intl/Tom Ridge Fld
Median home value
$127,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6% is lower than 83% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 42,557 employed residents.

Median household income of $51,034 is below 84% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$2,151$51,034Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,453$29,716Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate21.7%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.1 minBottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher14.9%Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment42,557Bottom 42%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.3%Bottom 45%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 23%June 2026
Labor force44,169Bottom 42%June 2026
Labor force participation57.7%Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,310Bottom 41%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$50,140Bottom 48%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.1%Bottom 6%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.6%Bottom 17%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202451k43k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $51,034 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Cleveland, OH
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers29,510$97,750
Registered Nurses28,240$83,940
Fast Food and Counter Workers28,010$28,750
Retail Salespersons24,650$31,000
Stockers and Order Fillers22,660$36,290
Home Health and Personal Care Aides19,400$34,520

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Ashtabula, OH, the city containing this ZIP code.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
33.0%
Bottom 30% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
44.1%
Bottom 34% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Lakeside High SchoolAshtabula Area City81023.1
Edgewood High SchoolBuckeye Local47016.8
Erie Intermediate SchoolAshtabula Area City39926.617%42%
Lakeside Junior High SchoolAshtabula Area City39817.332%32%
Ridgeview Elementary SchoolBuckeye Local39718.054%58%
Wallace H Braden Middle SchoolBuckeye Local37321.932%57%
Superior Intermediate SchoolAshtabula Area City36917.630%32%
Michigan Primary SchoolAshtabula Area City35316.0
Ontario Primary SchoolAshtabula Area City19217.5
Huron Primary SchoolAshtabula Area City11422.8

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Ohio’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $812 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.5 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
19.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$812
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$127,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.50Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate68.1%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±49215,655Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$44$812Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,678$127,700Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.1%Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate13.3%Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 81°F and January a low of 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ASHTABULA CO AP, 7.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation37.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high81°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

93 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are strong wind, cold wave and heat wave.

Winter weatherModerate
Strong windModerate
Heat waveModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, inland flooding, hail, ice storm, lightning, earthquake, hurricane, wildfire, coastal flooding, landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Ashtabula County records 3.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 17.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 23.7 per 100,000 residents in Ashtabula County.

Homicide
3.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
17.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
23.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
21.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Ashtabula County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 44004 rather than 44004 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 35 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Erie Intl/Tom Ridge FldERI35 mi8,420 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG41 mi9,003 ft
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE63 mi9,953 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

44004 vs Ashtabula

How this ZIP area compares with Ashtabula as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

44004
Ashtabula
Median household income
$51,034
vs
$44,120
Per capita income
$29,716
vs
$26,026
Population density
419/sq mi
vs
2,317/sq mi
Median home value
$127,700
vs
$105,900
Median gross rent
$812
vs
$793
Homeownership rate
68.1%
vs
58.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.9%
vs
11.8%
Poverty rate
21.7%
vs
29.8%
Median age
43.7
vs
41.2

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.