North Olmsted, Ohio

Area Profile

31,924 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for North Olmsted, in Cuyahoga County.

74out of 100
Area Score
Top 10% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 28% of 3,904 cities measured67
Schools1619th of 2,668 cities measured43
GrowthTop 42% of 2,973 cities measured54
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 cities measured100
Climate2391st of 4,223 cities measured68
Physical resilienceTop 2% of 4,182 cities measured97
AccessTop 8% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stabilityTop 33% of 4,226 cities measured68
The quick read

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 16% of median household income and the median home is 2.6 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing North Olmsted in the top 2% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 3 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
31,924
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$84,363
Top 30% nationally
Density
2,735/sq mi
11.7 sq mi of land
Median age
44.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Cuyahoga County
Ohio
Metro area
Cleveland, OH
Nearest major airport
CLE
3 mi · Cleveland-Hopkins Intl
Median home value
$219,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.2% is lower than 92% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.7% over the past year, to 16,574 employed residents.

32% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$4,124$84,363Top 30%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,664$46,490Top 21%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.3%Bottom 39%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.3 minBottom 42%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher32.3%Top 27%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment16,574Bottom 18%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.6%Top 40%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.7%Bottom 28%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force17,123Bottom 18%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation66.6%Top 28%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,310Bottom 35%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$50,140Bottom 43%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.7%Bottom 13%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.2%Bottom 8%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/066.42.8
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.2% in June 2026. 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
202120222023202485k75k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $84,363 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

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.

59% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 55% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
59.1%
Top 45% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
54.9%
Bottom 41% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
North Olmsted High SchoolNorth Olmsted City1,11519.2
North Olmsted Middle SchoolNorth Olmsted City81319.462%47%
Pine Intermediate SchoolNorth Olmsted City51221.351%60%
Chestnut Elementary SchoolNorth Olmsted City40617.766%64%
Maple Elementary SchoolNorth Olmsted City34815.857%55%
Birch Primary SchoolNorth Olmsted City34515.7

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 →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 7% below the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,141 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.6 times median household income here, 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.

Rent as a share of income
16.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,141
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$219,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index92.9Bottom 17%of 3,6582023
Home price to income2.61Bottom 41%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate78.9%Top 44%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±43014,131Top 4%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$52$1,141Top 36%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,263$219,800Top 42%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.2%Bottom 33%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.1%Bottom 24%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
54/ 100
Top 42% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, 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 2% since 2020, reaching 31,690 in 2024.

92% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 1.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
52
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.6
Bottom 41% nationally
Year over year
+58%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
92.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202432k32k
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
202020212022202320242025671.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+644%).

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 54, in the Moderate band, and about 6 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 CLEVELAND, 3.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index77.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation41.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall63.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10062024 calendar year
Median air quality index54.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
54
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
77
90th percentile index
Days above 100
6
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. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

97 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado and winter weather.

TornadoModerate
Winter weatherModerate

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

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
32
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
774
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

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

North Olmsted's police department reported 32 violent offences per 100,000 residents, lower than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 774.

Cuyahoga County records 11.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 16.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 23.5 per 100,000 residents in Cuyahoga County.

Homicide
11.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
23.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.3
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.

Offences are reported to the FBI by North Olmsted’s own police department, for the population it serves, and are shown only where it reported every month of the year — a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime counts what was reported to and recorded by police, which is not the same as what happened, and a place that draws a large daytime workforce carries incidents its residents did not generate. Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Cuyahoga 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 North Olmsted rather than North Olmsted 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.

Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. 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

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 3 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE3 mi9,953 ft
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK42 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 County366,09759vs North Olmsted
ParmaCuyahoga County79,87068vs North Olmsted
LorainLorain County65,39557vs North Olmsted
ElyriaLorain County53,03564vs North Olmsted
LakewoodCuyahoga County50,00777vs North Olmsted
EuclidCuyahoga County48,82358vs North Olmsted
MentorLake County47,17174vs North Olmsted
StrongsvilleCuyahoga County45,98380vs North Olmsted
Cleveland HeightsCuyahoga County44,49768vs North Olmsted
North RidgevilleLorain County36,62774vs North Olmsted
BrunswickMedina County35,24674vs North Olmsted
WestlakeCuyahoga County34,10477vs North Olmsted

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.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
safetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar yearAnnually, with monthly revisions
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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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 North Olmsted

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4407031,924$84,36374