44622Dover, Ohio

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 44622.

68out of 100
Area Score
Top 24% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 44% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured58
SchoolsTop 37% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured62
Growth3222nd of 5,428 ZIP areas measured45
Housing affordabilityTop 13% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured98
Climate4635th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured64
Physical resilienceTop 26% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured78
Access4098th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured90
Economic stability3573rd of 6,742 ZIP areas measured58
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.3% and median household income $70,780, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

In the public schools here, 63% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 20.3 students for every teacher.

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 3.2 times it.

At a glance

Population
18,661
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$70,780
Bottom 48% nationally
Density
336/sq mi
55.6 sq mi of land
Median age
42.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Dover
Ohio
Metro area
New Philadelphia-Dover, OH
Nearest major airport
CAK
25 mi · Akron-Canton Rgnl
Median home value
$223,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 91% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.1% over the past year, to 43,715 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$7,212$70,780Bottom 48%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,112$36,848Top 49%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.5%Top 50%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.7 minBottom 23%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher27.7%Top 39%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment43,715Bottom 43%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.9%Bottom 21%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.1%Bottom 42%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force45,209Bottom 43%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation62.1%Top 44%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.2%Bottom 5%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 9%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202471k62k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $70,780 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Dover, OH, the city containing this ZIP code.

63% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 67% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

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

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
20.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
63.4%
Top 29% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
66.9%
Top 24% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Dover High SchoolDover City82320.1
Dover Middle SchoolDover City61619.962%72%
South Elementary SchoolDover City42221.1
East Elementary SchoolDover City40521.362%57%
Dover Avenue Elementary SchoolDover City39219.667%69%

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 $981 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$981
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$223,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.16Top 48%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.1%Bottom 25%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3708,188Top 20%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$43$981Bottom 47%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,924$223,600Top 49%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.6%Bottom 42%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.7%Bottom 26%of 33,0282024 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
45/ 100
Ranks 3222 of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

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

At 1.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
23
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.8
Bottom 37% nationally
Year over year
+156%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Dover, OH, the city containing this ZIP code.

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 21°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.7 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEW PHILADELPHIA FLD, 6.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation38.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low21°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°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 hail, drought and winter weather.

HailModerate
Winter weatherModerate
DroughtModerate

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

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.

Tuscarawas County records 3.0 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 16.3 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 Tuscarawas County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.5
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 Tuscarawas 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 44622 rather than 44622 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 25 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK25 mi8,204 ft
Mansfield Lahm RgnlMFD57 mi9,001 ft
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE62 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
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.

44622 vs Dover

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

44622
Dover
Median household income
$70,780
vs
$64,276
Per capita income
$36,848
vs
$35,549
Population density
336/sq mi
vs
2,253/sq mi
Median home value
$223,600
vs
$193,700
Median gross rent
$981
vs
$997
Homeownership rate
67.1%
vs
59.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher
27.7%
vs
27.0%
Poverty rate
10.5%
vs
11.5%
Median age
42.4
vs
41.7

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.