45356Piqua, Ohio

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 45356.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 22% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured69
Schools2472nd of 4,422 ZIP areas measured47
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured100
Climate3842nd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured68
Physical resilienceTop 14% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured87
AccessTop 46% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured94
Economic stability4087th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured54
The quick read

45356 ranks in the top 22% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.2% and median household income of $69,188.

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 2.3 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 45356 in the top 14% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
25,237
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$69,188
Bottom 46% nationally
Density
334/sq mi
75.5 sq mi of land
Median age
41.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Piqua
Ohio
Metro area
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH
Nearest major airport
DAY
18 mi · James M Cox Dayton Intl
Median home value
$156,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.2% is lower than 93% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.7% over the past year, to 54,299 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,205$69,188Bottom 46%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,785$33,105Bottom 38%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate15.1%Top 31%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.6 minBottom 18%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher15.7%Bottom 27%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment54,299Top 50%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.1%Top 24%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.7%Top 16%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force56,118Top 50%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation64.0%Top 37%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,730Bottom 40%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,980Bottom 45%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.3%Bottom 4%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate3.2%Bottom 7%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202469k53k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $69,188 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

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Piqua, OH, the city containing this ZIP code.

55% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 50% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.8 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
55.1%
Top 45% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
49.7%
Bottom 42% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Upper Valley Career CenterUpper Valley Career Center98815.9
Piqua High SchoolPiqua City93117.9
Piqua Central Intermediate SchoolPiqua City71417.454%52%
Washington Primary Elementary SchoolPiqua City50818.867%42%
Piqua Junior High SchoolPiqua City46015.347%52%
Springcreek Primary Elementary SchoolPiqua City45615.252%52%

39.5% 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 $921 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.3 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
16.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$921
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$156,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.26Bottom 23%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate70.6%Bottom 31%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±45011,299Top 14%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$55$921Bottom 40%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$9,280$156,400Bottom 29%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.0%Bottom 38%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.1%Bottom 23%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

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 one day a year passes 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, 17.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation41.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall25.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index43.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing47°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
1
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

87 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, earthquake and strong wind.

EarthquakeElevated
Ice stormModerate
TornadoElevated
Strong windModerate
HailModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, inland flooding, winter weather, cold wave, landslide, hurricane, drought, wildfire.

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.

Miami County records 2.5 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 9.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.2 per 100,000 residents in Miami County.

Homicide
2.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.5
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 Miami 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 45356 rather than 45356 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 18 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
James M Cox Dayton IntlDAY18 mi8,502 ft
Wilmington Air ParkILN56 mi10,701 ft
John Glenn Columbus IntlCMH72 mi10,114 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
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
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
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.

45356 vs Piqua

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

45356
Piqua
Median household income
$69,188
vs
$67,796
Per capita income
$33,105
vs
$31,741
Population density
334/sq mi
vs
1,569/sq mi
Median home value
$156,400
vs
$138,600
Median gross rent
$921
vs
$922
Homeownership rate
70.6%
vs
65.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.7%
vs
15.0%
Poverty rate
15.1%
vs
17.6%
Median age
41.5
vs
38.8

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.