Trotwood, Ohio

Area Profile

23,041 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Trotwood, in Montgomery County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity2359th of 3,904 published cities51
Schools2658th of 2,668 published cities5
Housing affordabilityTop 43% of 4,223 published cities85
Climate2476th of 4,223 published cities68
Physical resilienceTop 17% of 4,182 published cities85
AccessTop 14% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stability3603rd of 4,226 published cities38
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.7% and median household income $50,113, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Trotwood in the top 17% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 9 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
23,041
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$50,113
Bottom 23% nationally
Density
756/sq mi
30.5 sq mi of land
Median age
44.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Montgomery County
Ohio
Metro area
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH
Nearest major airport
DAY
9 mi · James M Cox Dayton Intl
Median home value
$113,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.7% is lower than 36% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.8% over the past year, to 10,035 employed residents.

Median household income of $50,113 is below 77% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,747$50,113Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,242$30,393Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate21.5%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.7 minBottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher19.3%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment10,035Bottom 3%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.1%Top 21%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.8%Top 15%June 2026
Labor force10,532Bottom 3%June 2026
Labor force participation61.6%Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,730Bottom 35%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,980Bottom 40%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.6%Bottom 1%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.7%Top 36%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/068.54.2
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.7% 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
202120222023202450k40k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $50,113 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.

10% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 17% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.3 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
10.3%
Bottom 1% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
17.5%
Bottom 1% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Trotwood-Madison High SchoolTrotwood-Madison City84021.5
Valerie Elementary SchoolDayton City56619.511%14%
Trotwood-Madison Middle SchoolTrotwood-Madison City54816.18%17%
Klepinger Community School · charterKlepinger Community School54038.64%12%
Meadowdale High SchoolDayton City47911.1
Belle Haven Elementary SchoolDayton City47320.69%18%
Trotwood-Madison Early Learning CenterTrotwood-Madison City41419.7
Madison Park ElementaryTrotwood-Madison City34419.117%22%
Trotwood Preparatory & Fitness Academy · charterTrotwood Preparatory & Fitness Academy33615.321%20%
Westbrooke VillageTrotwood-Madison City33014.310%24%

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 $1,031 takes 25% 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
24.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,031
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$113,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.26Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate57.6%Bottom 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±48612,254Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$57$1,031Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,901$113,200Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income24.7%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate11.9%Top 43%2024 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 →

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 23,073 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202423k23k
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.

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 47, in the Good band, and about 4 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, 9.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 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 10042024 calendar year
Median air quality index47.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing47°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
47
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
4
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

85 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Strong windModerate
Ice stormModerate
HailModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

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.

Montgomery County records 7.5 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 15.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 24.7 per 100,000 residents in Montgomery County.

Homicide
7.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
24.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.2
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 Montgomery 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 Trotwood rather than Trotwood 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 9 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
James M Cox Dayton IntlDAY9 mi8,502 ft
Wilmington Air ParkILN38 mi10,701 ft
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky IntlCVG55 mi10,000 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 County136,57960vs Trotwood
KetteringMontgomery County57,20671vs Trotwood
BeavercreekGreene County47,126vs Trotwood
Huber HeightsMontgomery County43,455vs Trotwood
FairbornGreene County34,53475vs Trotwood
TroyMiami County26,842vs Trotwood
XeniaGreene County25,68973vs Trotwood
CentervilleMontgomery County25,20579vs Trotwood
RiversideMontgomery County24,435vs Trotwood
PiquaMiami County20,646vs Trotwood
MiamisburgMontgomery County19,94874vs Trotwood
VandaliaMontgomery County15,05374vs Trotwood

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)
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 Trotwood

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4542614,114$51,908
454165,640$46,174