Vermilion, Ohio

Area Profile

10,343 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Vermilion, in Erie County.

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

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 18% of 3,904 cities measured73
SchoolsTop 47% of 2,668 cities measured53
GrowthTop 38% of 2,973 cities measured57
Housing affordabilityTop 13% of 4,223 cities measured98
Climate3029th of 4,223 cities measured63
Physical resilienceTop 9% of 4,182 cities measured92
Access2307th of 4,226 cities measured91
Economic stability2739th of 4,226 cities measured52
The quick read

Vermilion ranks in the top 18% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.4% and median household income of $69,701.

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 2.6 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Vermilion in the top 9% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
10,343
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$69,701
Top 46% nationally
Density
976/sq mi
10.6 sq mi of land
Median age
50.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Erie County
Ohio
Metro area
Sandusky, OH
Nearest major airport
CLE
24 mi · Cleveland-Hopkins Intl
Median home value
$183,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.4% is lower than 87% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.1% over the past year, to 38,459 employed residents.

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

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$11,970$69,701Top 46%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,682$42,220Top 28%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.7%Bottom 32%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.2 minBottom 47%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher32.3%Top 27%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment38,459Bottom 44%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.2%Bottom 48%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.1%Top 12%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force39,807Bottom 43%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation58.7%Bottom 43%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$54,760Bottom 4%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$44,970Bottom 6%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.1%Bottom 4%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.4%Bottom 13%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202473k69k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $69,701 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 — Sandusky, OH
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers2,070$27,590
Cashiers1,690$28,530
Retail Salespersons1,510$31,000
Waiters and Waitresses1,400$34,610
General and Operations Managers1,380$81,790
Stockers and Order Fillers960$35,290

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 Erie County, OH, which contains this city.

64% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 58% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
63.9%
Top 31% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
58.2%
Top 49% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Vermilion High SchoolVermilion Local58017.662%47%
Vermilion Elementary SchoolVermilion Local51118.957%62%
Sailorway Middle SchoolVermilion Local51119.773%67%

44.6% 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 $1,099 takes 19% 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.

Rent as a share of income
18.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,099
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$183,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.63Bottom 42%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate80.9%Top 40%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3555,326Top 11%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$48$1,099Top 39%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,141$183,600Bottom 49%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.9%Top 48%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate13.1%Top 39%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
57/ 100
Top 38% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, 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 grown 1% since 2020, reaching 10,733 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 3.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
39
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.8
Top 37% nationally
Year over year
+8%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202411k11k
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
2020202120222023202420255316
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was close to 2020 (+5%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 20°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 36.7 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ELYRIA LORAIN CO AP, 8.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation36.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low20°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing46°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

92 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Winter weatherModerate
HailModerate
Ice stormModerate
TornadoModerate
Strong windModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, earthquake, cold wave, lightning, hurricane, coastal flooding, landslide, wildfire.

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.

Erie County records 3.1 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 14.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.3 per 100,000 residents in Erie County.

Homicide
3.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.9
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 Erie 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 Vermilion rather than Vermilion 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

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

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE24 mi9,953 ft
Mansfield Lahm RgnlMFD42 mi9,001 ft
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK57 mi8,204 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 Sandusky, OH

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
SanduskyErie County24,60663vs Vermilion

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

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 Vermilion

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4408915,654$70,49574