Avon, Ohio

Area Profile

25,317 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Avon, in Lorain County.

80out of 100
Area Score
Top 1% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 8% of 4,199 cities measured80
SchoolsTop 14% of 4,162 cities measured79
GrowthTop 15% of 4,224 cities measured70
Housing affordabilityTop 20% of 4,218 cities measured77
Climate2,386th of 4,225 cities measured68
Physical resilienceTop 3% of 4,226 cities measured96
AccessTop 9% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stabilityTop 4% of 4,226 cities measured81
The quick read

Avon ranks in the top 8% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 2.6% and median household income of $135,915.

Public schools test above most of the state: 83% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 14% of published profiles for schools.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most cities measured: rent takes 28% of renter income and the median home is 2.7 times what its owners earn.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
25,317
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$135,915
Top 6% nationally
Density
1,218/sq mi
20.8 sq mi of land
Median age
41.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Ohio
Metro area
Cleveland, OH
Nearest major airport
CLE
8 mi · Cleveland-Hopkins Intl
Median home value
$395,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 2.6%, lower than in 98% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.3% over the past year, to 13,254 employed residents.

59% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 93% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $135,915 is higher than in 94% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsLorain County, OH’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$69,45645th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftLorain County, OH’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$66,05237th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$15,2552024 ACS 5-Year$135,915Top 6%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,7692024 ACS 5-Year$63,728Top 8%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.3%Top 16%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year26.3 minTop 48%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year58.6%Top 7%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year71.7%32nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202613,254Bottom 9%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+0.7%Top 35%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−1.3%Bottom 39%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202613,6018th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year88.1%Top 15%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageCleveland, OH Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$66,310Bottom 36%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageCleveland, OH Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$50,140Bottom 43%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.0%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%73rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026−0.8%Top 17%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20262.6%Top 2%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year23.2%90th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/074.32.3
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 2.6% in July 2026. It has been falling, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024136k114k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $135,915 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

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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.

83% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 89% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 20.3 students for every full-time teacher across 5 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
20.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
83.2%
Top 6% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
88.7%
Top 3% in Ohio
All 5 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Avon High SchoolAvon Local1,41720.576%89%
Avon Heritage Elementary SchoolAvon Local97720.890%88%
Avon Middle SchoolAvon Local97618.487%89%
Avon East Elementary SchoolAvon Local53917.4——
Avon Early Learning CenterAvon Local39432.8——

15.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Ohio’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 7% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 92.9, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Cleveland, OH Metro Area is up 48% over five years, and up 4.4% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $6,013 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.52% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,740, close to the $1,796 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,740 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $69,600 a year, about 51% of the median household income here of $135,915.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,796 a month.

A median home at $395,900 costs 2.7 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $145,848, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
92.9

Prices here run about 7% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Cleveland, OH Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
28.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.7×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,740
what a new lease costs · FY2025
Median gross rent
$1,796
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$395,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Avon’s median household income of $135,915, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Cleveland, OH Metro Area’s figure202392.9Top 16%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Cleveland, OH Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+4.4%71st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Cleveland, OH Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+48.1%74th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Cleveland, OH Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+99.8%61st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year2.7Bottom 43%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year88.3%75th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3572024 ACS 5-Year9,86894th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2025$1,430Bottom 47%of 4,072FY2025
Market rent, three bedroomFY2025$2,240Bottom 48%of 4,072FY2025
Market rent, two bedroomFY2025$1,740Bottom 45%of 4,072FY2025
Median gross rent ±$2002024 ACS 5-Year$1,796Bottom 12%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,7102024 ACS 5-Year$395,90082nd percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$2002024 ACS 5-Year$6,01393rd percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$14,7492024 ACS 5-Year$145,848Top 7%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.09%2024 ACS 5-Year1.52%79th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year28.0%Top 48%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±242024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year3.7%31st percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1752024 ACS 5-Year36686th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

70/ 100
Top 15% of 4,224 published city profiles
The most recent move in permitting was downward, in a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 3% since 2020, reaching 25,573 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before: 46 units authorized in 2025, 47% below the prior year.

Federal tax returns show Lorain County, which contains Avon, gained about 0.6% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $69,456, above the $66,052 of households that moved out.

At 3.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
79
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.1
Top 43% nationally
Year over year
+88%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
25.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202426k25k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.6%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
29%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$69,456
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$66,052
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Cuyahoga County, OH 4,971 people · 43% of arrivals
  2. Medina County, OH 614 people · 5.4% of arrivals
  3. Erie County, OH 493 people · 4.3% of arrivals
  4. Summit County, OH 256 people · 2.2% of arrivals
  5. Franklin County, OH 249 people · 2.2% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Cuyahoga County, OH 3,270 people · 33% of departures
  2. Medina County, OH 505 people · 5.2% of departures
  3. Erie County, OH 498 people · 5.1% of departures
  4. Huron County, OH 256 people · 2.6% of departures
  5. Franklin County, OH 253 people · 2.6% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Lorain County, OH. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

20202021202220232024202512826
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−64%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.0 inches, including 63.8 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CLEVELAND, 7.8 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND3.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year512024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals41.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals63.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year02024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year392024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals45°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
51
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

96 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and cold wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 65% of it. Inland flooding and cold wave are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 97% of measured US cities.

Strong windModerate
Ice stormModerate
HailModerate
TornadoModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, cold wave, lightning, earthquake, hurricane, wildfire, landslide, coastal flooding, drought, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
43
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
944
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Avon's police department reported 43 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, lower than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 944.

Lorain County records 4.1 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 18.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 20.8 per 100,000 residents in Lorain County.

Homicide
4.1
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
18.9
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
20.8
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
20.1
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Avon’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Avon (Lorain County) rather than Avon itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Cleveland-Hopkins Intl at 8 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year95.8%Top 21%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle8 miTop 20%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle6Top 27%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year2.5%Top 22%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE8 mi9,953 ft
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK47 mi8,204 ft
Mansfield Lahm RgnlMFD51 mi9,001 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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Other cities in Cleveland, OH

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
ClevelandCuyahoga County366,09759Cleveland vs Avon
ParmaCuyahoga County79,87068Parma vs Avon
LorainLorain County65,39555Lorain vs Avon
ElyriaLorain County53,03563
LakewoodCuyahoga County50,00775
EuclidCuyahoga County48,82356
MentorLake County47,17174
StrongsvilleCuyahoga County45,98377
Cleveland HeightsCuyahoga County44,49766
North RidgevilleLorain County36,62775
BrunswickMedina County35,24671
WestlakeCuyahoga County34,10475

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2025
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Avon

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Avon with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Avon closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
4401125,317$135,915$395,900—