Steubenville, Ohio

Area Profile

18,124 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Steubenville, in Jefferson County.

56out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 33% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3353rd of 3,904 cities measured38
SchoolsTop 18% of 2,668 cities measured76
Growth2911th of 2,973 cities measured11
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 4,223 cities measured97
Climate2782nd of 4,223 cities measured65
Physical resilience2102nd of 4,182 cities measured58
Access2420th of 4,226 cities measured90
Economic stability4085th of 4,226 cities measured25
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.4% and the Opportunity signal places Steubenville in the bottom 14%.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 19% of median household income and the median home is 2.7 times it.

A typical July reaches 83°F and a typical January falls to 22°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
18,124
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$48,172
Bottom 20% nationally
Density
1,720/sq mi
10.5 sq mi of land
Median age
35.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Jefferson County
Ohio
Metro area
Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH
Nearest major airport
PIT
24 mi · Pittsburgh Intl
Median home value
$130,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.4% is lower than 48% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.3% over the past year, to 26,860 employed residents.

Median household income of $48,172 is below 80% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$4,255$48,172Bottom 20%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,573$28,059Bottom 30%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate26.6%Top 14%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.6 minBottom 16%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher30.1%Top 30%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment26,860Bottom 34%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.8%Bottom 8%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.3%Bottom 38%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force28,102Bottom 34%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation54.3%Bottom 31%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$55,160Bottom 5%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$45,840Bottom 8%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.5%Bottom 1%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.4%Top 48%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202448k39k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $48,172 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 — Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Registered Nurses1,190$77,400
Cashiers1,030$27,020
Stockers and Order Fillers1,020$36,730
Retail Salespersons940$27,640
General and Operations Managers880$78,970
Home Health and Personal Care Aides770$28,550

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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Jefferson County, OH, which contains this city.

75% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 75% 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
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
74.6%
Top 14% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
74.6%
Top 13% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Harding Middle SchoolSteubenville City79316.577%69%
Steubenville High SchoolSteubenville City70615.7
Indian Creek High SchoolIndian Creek Local51715.2
Cross Creek ElementaryIndian Creek Local49617.136%49%
Pugliese Elementary WestSteubenville City44920.495%92%
East Garfield Elementary SchoolSteubenville City38216.673%75%
Wells AcademySteubenville City33618.794%94%
McKinley STEM AcademySteubenville City17517.590%90%

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 $775 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.7 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
19.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$775
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$130,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.71Bottom 44%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate57.2%Bottom 17%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3088,335Top 7%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$51$775Bottom 25%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,486$130,700Bottom 31%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.3%Top 45%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate14.9%Top 34%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
11/ 100
Ranks 2911 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, 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 18,029 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
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202418k18k
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
20222023202420250.00.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 83°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 45, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WHEELING OHIO CO AP, 13.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation37.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high83°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index45.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
45
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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

58 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding and hail.

Inland floodingModerate
HailModerate

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

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.

Jefferson County records 2.3 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 15.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 20.3 per 100,000 residents in Jefferson County.

Homicide
2.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
20.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.2
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 Jefferson 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 Steubenville rather than Steubenville 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 24 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Pittsburgh IntlPIT24 mi11,500 ft
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK56 mi8,204 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG62 mi9,003 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 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
WeirtonHancock County18,64750vs Steubenville

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
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)
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
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 Steubenville

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4395217,836$47,62456
4395311,274$74,10756