Cambridge, Ohio

Area Profile

10,060 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Cambridge, in Guernsey County.

52out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 21% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2880th of 3,904 published cities45
Schools2366th of 2,668 published cities20
Growth2882nd of 2,973 published cities13
Housing affordabilityTop 30% of 4,223 published cities91
Climate2847th of 4,223 published cities64
Physical resilienceTop 27% of 4,182 published cities78
Access3810th of 4,226 published cities66
Economic stability3860th of 4,226 published cities32
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.1% and the Opportunity signal places Cambridge in the bottom 26%.

In the public schools here, 29% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.1 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 0 units authorized over the past twelve months, 100% below the prior year.

At a glance

Population
10,060
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$42,946
Bottom 13% nationally
Density
1,580/sq mi
6.4 sq mi of land
Median age
42.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Guernsey County
Ohio
Metro area
Cambridge, OH
Nearest major airport
CAK
62 mi · Akron-Canton Rgnl
Median home value
$121,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Employment fell 0.4% over the past year, to 16,054 employed residents.

Median household income of $42,946 is below 87% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,654$42,946Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,084$27,956Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate27.9%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.1 minBottom 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher15.4%Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment16,054Bottom 17%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.4%Bottom 46%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.4%Top 38%June 2026
Labor force16,743Bottom 17%June 2026
Labor force participation55.4%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.5%Bottom 1%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202443k36k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $42,946 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 Guernsey County, OH, which contains this city.

29% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 37% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.1 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
28.6%
Bottom 10% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
37.0%
Bottom 12% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Cambridge High SchoolCambridge City47213.5
Cambridge Primary SchoolCambridge City43318.0
Cambridge Intermediate SchoolCambridge City41217.230%37%
Cambridge Middle SchoolCambridge City39912.927%37%
Cambridge City PreschoolCambridge City81

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 $788 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
22.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$788
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$121,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.84Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate48.6%Bottom 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3075,420Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$103$788Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,893$121,900Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.0%Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.4%Bottom 40%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 →
Development Momentum
13/ 100
Ranks 2882 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2022 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 10,036 in 2024.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
−100%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202410k10k
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
20222023202420252.01.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2022 (−50%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 85°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.6 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ZANESVILLE MUNI AP, 17.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation38.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high85°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing44°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

78 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, hail and drought.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 81% of measured US cities.

HailModerate
DroughtModerate
Winter weatherModerate
TornadoModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, lightning, inland flooding, ice storm, heat wave, hurricane, strong wind, earthquake, 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.

Guernsey County records 2.7 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 12.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.5 per 100,000 residents in Guernsey County.

Homicide
2.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
31.5
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 Guernsey 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 Cambridge rather than Cambridge 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

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 62 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK62 mi8,204 ft
John Glenn Columbus IntlCMH69 mi10,114 ft
Rickenbacker IntlLCK73 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 Cambridge

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4372519,453$57,83556