Wadsworth, Ohio

Area Profile

24,492 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Wadsworth, in Medina County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 25% of 3,904 cities measured69
SchoolsTop 16% of 2,668 cities measured78
Housing affordabilityTop 11% of 4,223 cities measured99
Climate3403rd of 4,223 cities measured62
Physical resilienceTop 5% of 4,182 cities measured94
AccessTop 36% of 4,226 cities measured95
Economic stabilityTop 26% of 4,226 cities measured72
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 3.1 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Wadsworth in the top 5% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 17 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
24,492
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$79,490
Top 34% nationally
Density
2,137/sq mi
11.5 sq mi of land
Median age
40.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Medina County
Ohio
Metro area
Cleveland, OH
Nearest major airport
CAK
17 mi · Akron-Canton Rgnl
Median home value
$247,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.0% is lower than 96% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.7% over the past year, to 97,898 employed residents.

41% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 82% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,815$79,490Top 34%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,929$46,119Top 22%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.1%Bottom 38%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.1 minBottom 47%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher41.1%Top 18%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment97,898Top 39%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.7%Top 39%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.7%Bottom 26%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force100,921Top 39%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation68.9%Top 21%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)-0.8%Bottom 10%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.0%Bottom 4%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202479k68k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $79,490 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.

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

80% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 79% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.1 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
79.7%
Top 9% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
78.9%
Top 8% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Wadsworth High SchoolWadsworth City1,54019.3
Sharon Elementary SchoolHighland Local62719.687%87%
Wadsworth Middle SchoolWadsworth City60615.971%64%
Central Intermediate SchoolWadsworth City60620.976%89%
Overlook Elementary SchoolWadsworth City39018.685%80%
Isham Memorial Elementary SchoolWadsworth City34218.080%80%
Valley View Elementary SchoolWadsworth City31914.579%66%
Franklin Elementary SchoolWadsworth City24517.590%84%
Lincoln Elementary SchoolWadsworth City19517.773%80%
Grizzly AcademyWadsworth City287.0

29.1% 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 $1,067 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.1 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,067
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$247,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.12Top 45%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.9%Bottom 34%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±37910,909Top 5%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$50$1,067Top 42%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,491$247,900Top 36%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.1%Bottom 32%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.9%Bottom 23%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 →

Population has grown 3% since 2020, reaching 24,753 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202425k24k
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
202020212022202320242025880.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−100%).

No building-permit activity is published for this location by 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 82°F and January a low of 18°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 36.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, 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 WOOSTER WAYNE CO AP, 13.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index63.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation36.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low18°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing46°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
63
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

94 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Winter weatherModerate
Strong windModerate
Ice stormModerate
TornadoModerate
HailModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

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.

Medina County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 13.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.7 per 100,000 residents in Medina County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
13.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
7.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.2
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 Medina 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 Wadsworth rather than Wadsworth 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 17 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK17 mi8,204 ft
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE27 mi9,953 ft
Mansfield Lahm RgnlMFD43 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 Wadsworth
ParmaCuyahoga County79,87068vs Wadsworth
LorainLorain County65,39557vs Wadsworth
ElyriaLorain County53,03564vs Wadsworth
LakewoodCuyahoga County50,00777vs Wadsworth
EuclidCuyahoga County48,82358vs Wadsworth
MentorLake County47,17174vs Wadsworth
StrongsvilleCuyahoga County45,98380vs Wadsworth
Cleveland HeightsCuyahoga County44,49768vs Wadsworth
North RidgevilleLorain County36,62774vs Wadsworth
BrunswickMedina County35,24674vs Wadsworth
WestlakeCuyahoga County34,10477vs Wadsworth

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 Wadsworth

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4428134,704$89,131