Fairborn, Ohio

Area Profile

34,534 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Fairborn, in Greene County.

72out of 100
Area Score
Top 10% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 18% of 4,199 cities measured74
Schools3,339th of 4,162 cities measured26
GrowthTop 6% of 4,224 cities measured78
Housing affordabilityTop 12% of 4,218 cities measured80
Climate2,470th of 4,225 cities measured68
Physical resilienceTop 8% of 4,226 cities measured93
AccessTop 25% of 4,226 cities measured97
Economic stability2,782nd of 4,226 cities measured49
The quick read

Fairborn ranks in the top 18% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.1% and median household income of $61,751.

In the public schools here, 51% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.6 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 203 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 128% on the prior year.

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At a glance

Population
34,534
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$61,751
Bottom 42% nationally
Density
2,370/sq mi
14.6 sq mi of land
Median age
35.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Ohio
Nearest major airport
DAY
13 mi · James M Cox Dayton Intl
Median home value
$175,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.1%, lower than in 91% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.5% over the past year, to 17,585 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsGreene County, OH’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$60,54328th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftGreene County, OH’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$65,17735th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$5,7392024 ACS 5-Year$61,751Bottom 42%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,4772024 ACS 5-Year$37,921Top 38%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year12.7%Bottom 43%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.0 min2024 ACS 5-Year22.7 minTop 29%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year30.2%Top 30%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year77.9%52nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202617,585Bottom 19%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+2.3%Top 17%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026+0.5%Top 26%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202618,14818th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year79.4%Top 46%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageDayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$65,730Bottom 35%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageDayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$49,980Bottom 40%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.1%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%73rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026−1.4%Top 3%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.1%Top 9%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year9.3%57th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/075.22.7
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.1% 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

202120222023202462k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $61,751 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 — Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers11,860$27,680
Registered Nurses11,640$82,510
General and Operations Managers10,180$98,030
Retail Salespersons9,170$30,360
Stockers and Order Fillers8,770$36,750
Cashiers7,300$28,750

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.

51% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 58% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.6 students for every full-time teacher across 4 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
51.1%
Bottom 19% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
58.4%
Bottom 27% in Ohio
All 4 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Fairborn Primary SchoolFairborn City1,26118.046%51%
Fairborn Intermediate SchoolFairborn City1,04720.966%64%
Fairborn High SchoolFairborn City1,02714.143%64%
Fairborn Middle SchoolFairborn City92614.750%56%

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 8% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 92.4, 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area is up 50% over five years, and up 5.3% 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 $2,451 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.40% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,190, some 22% above the $977 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,190 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $47,600 a year, about 77% of the median household income here of $61,751.

The typical renter household here spends 27% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $977 a month.

A median home at $175,000 costs 2.1 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $84,948, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
92.4

Prices here run about 8% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, 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
26.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.1×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,190
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$977
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$175,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Fairborn’s median household income of $61,751, 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 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area’s figure202392.4Top 14%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+5.3%81st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+49.7%77th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+110.0%76th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year2.1Top 35%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year51.2%10th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5422024 ACS 5-Year17,06397th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$940Top 17%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,540Top 19%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,190Top 20%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$302024 ACS 5-Year$977Bottom 49%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$9,3892024 ACS 5-Year$175,00047th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1402024 ACS 5-Year$2,45164th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,5612024 ACS 5-Year$84,948Top 42%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.11%2024 ACS 5-Year1.40%73rd percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year26.6%Top 40%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±412024 ACS 5-Year3478th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.2%53rd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.6%48th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3102024 ACS 5-Year1,15295th 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

78/ 100
Top 6% of 4,224 published city profiles
Permitting has been rising for the last 2 years of 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 2% since 2020, reaching 35,105 in 2024.

80% of the 203 units permitted over the past twelve months are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

Federal tax returns show Greene County, which contains Fairborn, gained about 0.5% 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 $60,543, below the $65,177 of households that moved out.

At 5.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
203
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
5.9
Top 24% nationally
Year over year
+128%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
80.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202435k34k
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 3 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.5%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
36%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$60,543
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$65,177
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Montgomery County, OH 3,690 people · 35% of arrivals
  2. Clark County, OH 659 people · 6.3% of arrivals
  3. Warren County, OH 376 people · 3.6% of arrivals
  4. Franklin County, OH 352 people · 3.3% of arrivals
  5. Clinton County, OH 214 people · 2.0% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Montgomery County, OH 3,549 people · 36% of departures
  2. Clark County, OH 533 people · 5.4% of departures
  3. Warren County, OH 431 people · 4.4% of departures
  4. Franklin County, OH 326 people · 3.3% of departures
  5. Miami County, OH 239 people · 2.4% 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 Greene County, OH. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

20202021202220232024202521636
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+45%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 86°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.3 inches, including 25.0 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 43, in the Good band, and about 2 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 DAYTON INTL AP, 13.4 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year612024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals41.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals25.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year22024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year432024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals47°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
43
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
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

93 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, cold wave and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 48% 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 92% of measured US cities.

Ice stormModerate
Strong windModerate
TornadoElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

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
304
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,181
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.

Fairborn's police department reported 304 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,181.

Greene County has a modeled homicide rate of about 2.2 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 17.1 per 100,000 residents in Greene County.

Homicide
2.2
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.1
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
17.1
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
10.0
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 Fairborn’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 Fairborn (Greene County) rather than Fairborn 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest James M Cox Dayton Intl at 13 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year92.1%Top 39%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle13 miTop 37%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 45%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year6.3%Top 44%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
James M Cox Dayton IntlDAY13 mi8,502 ft
Wilmington Air ParkILN28 mi10,701 ft
Rickenbacker IntlLCK57 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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Other cities in Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
DaytonMontgomery County136,57957Dayton vs Fairborn
KetteringMontgomery County57,20668Kettering vs Fairborn
BeavercreekGreene County47,12679Beavercreek vs Fairborn
Huber HeightsMontgomery County43,45566
TroyMiami County26,84275
XeniaGreene County25,68969
CentervilleMontgomery County25,20578
RiversideMontgomery County24,43566
TrotwoodMontgomery County23,04156
PiquaMiami County20,64668
MiamisburgMontgomery County19,94871
VandaliaMontgomery County15,05372

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
FY2026
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 Fairborn

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Fairborn 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 Fairborn 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
4532441,194$64,979$184,200—