Wilmington, Ohio

Area Profile

12,620 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Wilmington, in Clinton County.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 40% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2944th of 3,904 published cities44
Schools2061st of 2,668 published cities30
GrowthTop 43% of 2,973 published cities54
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 4,223 published cities97
Climate2883rd of 4,223 published cities64
Physical resilienceTop 12% of 4,182 published cities89
AccessTop 14% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stability3334th of 4,226 published cities43
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 3.4% and the Opportunity signal places Wilmington in the bottom 25%.

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 3.0 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Wilmington in the top 12% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
12,620
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$57,199
Bottom 35% nationally
Density
975/sq mi
12.9 sq mi of land
Median age
36.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Clinton County
Ohio
Metro area
Wilmington, OH
Nearest major airport
ILN
1 mi · Wilmington Air Park
Median home value
$174,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Employment fell 4.0% over the past year, to 20,202 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,514$57,199Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,715$30,590Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.5%Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.5 minBottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher21.2%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment20,202Bottom 25%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.1%Bottom 19%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-4.0%Bottom 3%June 2026
Labor force20,915Bottom 25%June 2026
Labor force participation58.4%Bottom 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 8%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.4%Bottom 13%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202457k44k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $57,199 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.

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

46% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 51% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
45.6%
Bottom 31% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
51.3%
Bottom 33% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Laurel Oaks CdcGreat Oaks Career Campuses71015.4
Wilmington High SchoolWilmington City59619.2
Roy E Holmes Elementary SchoolWilmington City56821.8
Denver Place Elementary SchoolWilmington City48318.658%55%
Rodger O. Borror Middle SchoolWilmington City45118.032%47%

52.0% 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 $909 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
19.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$909
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$174,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.05Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate58.2%Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2875,943Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$76$909Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,303$174,400Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.1%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.3%Bottom 35%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 →
Development Momentum
54/ 100
Top 43% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, 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 been broadly flat since 2020, at 12,639 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

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

At 6.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
78
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.2
Top 24% nationally
Year over year
+5%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202413k13k
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
20222023202420256243
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+16%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 21°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 42.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, in the Good band, and about 6 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 CINCINNATI, 0.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index67.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation42.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low21°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10062024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
67
90th percentile index
Days above 100
6
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

89 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Overall hazard risk is lower than 84% of measured US cities.

Ice stormModerate
DroughtModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Strong windModerate
Heat waveModerate
TornadoElevated
Cold waveElevated

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, landslide, winter weather, inland flooding, hail, hurricane, 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.

Clinton County records 2.8 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 11.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 19.0 per 100,000 residents in Clinton County.

Homicide
2.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
19.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.6
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 Clinton 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 Wilmington rather than Wilmington 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 1 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Wilmington Air ParkILN1 mi10,701 ft
James M Cox Dayton IntlDAY39 mi8,502 ft
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky IntlCVG53 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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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
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 Wilmington

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4517722,924$74,05166