Bucyrus, Ohio

Area Profile

11,594 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Bucyrus, in Crawford County.

54out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 26% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3596th of 3,904 cities measured32
Schools1688th of 2,668 cities measured41
Growth2862nd of 2,973 cities measured14
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 cities measured100
Climate3212th of 4,223 cities measured62
Physical resilienceTop 35% of 4,182 cities measured71
Access2237th of 4,226 cities measured91
Economic stability3115th of 4,226 cities measured47
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.1% and the Opportunity signal places Bucyrus in the bottom 8%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 2 units authorized over the past twelve months, 60% below the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 17% of median household income and the median home is 2.4 times it.

At a glance

Population
11,594
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$54,349
Bottom 30% nationally
Density
1,569/sq mi
7.4 sq mi of land
Median age
42.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Crawford County
Ohio
Metro area
Bucyrus, OH
Nearest major airport
MFD
24 mi · Mansfield Lahm Rgnl
Median home value
$128,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 59% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 2.1% over the past year, to 17,703 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$2,055$54,349Bottom 30%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,990$33,631Bottom 49%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate14.9%Top 36%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.7 minBottom 24%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher12.5%Bottom 27%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment17,703Bottom 21%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-4.2%Bottom 5%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.1%Bottom 16%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force18,454Bottom 20%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation59.8%Bottom 47%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.3%Bottom 1%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202454k44k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $54,349 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Crawford County, OH, which contains this city.

54% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 53% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.8%
Bottom 44% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
53.0%
Bottom 37% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Wynford Elementary SchoolWynford Local56916.760%61%
Bucyrus Elementary SchoolBucyrus City56216.147%42%
Wynford High SchoolWynford Local25816.1
Bucyrus Middle SchoolBucyrus City25619.732%47%
Wynford Middle SchoolWynford Local25218.077%67%
Bucyrus Secondary SchoolBucyrus City24712.3

72.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

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 $765 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.4 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
16.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$765
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$128,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.37Bottom 34%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.1%Bottom 32%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2415,687Top 10%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$56$765Bottom 23%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$8,254$128,600Bottom 31%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.9%Bottom 38%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.9%Bottom 38%of 32,0012024 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 →
Development Momentum
14/ 100
Ranks 2862 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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 fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 11,567 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
2
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.2
Bottom 12% nationally
Year over year
−60%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202412k12k
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.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202120222023202420257.01.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+400%).

Weather & climate

5 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 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.5 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MARION MUNI AP, 13.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation37.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing46°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

71 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, strong wind and hail.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 83% of measured US cities.

Ice stormElevated
HailElevated
Winter weatherModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Strong windElevated
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, lightning, tornado, hurricane, landslide, wildfire.

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.

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.

Crawford County records 3.8 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 9.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.1 per 100,000 residents in Crawford County.

Homicide
3.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.9
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 Crawford 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 Bucyrus rather than Bucyrus 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

8 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 24 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mansfield Lahm RgnlMFD24 mi9,001 ft
John Glenn Columbus IntlCMH56 mi10,114 ft
Rickenbacker IntlLCK69 mi11,902 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
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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

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.

ZIP codes in Bucyrus

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4482017,291$58,22355