Village · Noble County, Ohio

Caldwell, Ohio

Caldwell is a village in Noble County, Ohio. It has 1,667 residents. Caldwell, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 38 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,649 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #451 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on property crime rate (low), violent crime rate (low) and drug overdose deaths (low). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), new business applications (low) and mental health care shortage (high).

38Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,649 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #451 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,667 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,875.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3910940

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety90#1,528/15,637
Economy31#10,821/15,631
Housing93#1,025/14,977
Health49#7,972/15,609
Healthcare4#15,019/15,650
Environment68#4,896/15,453
Education33#10,500/15,649
Infrastructure38#9,681/15,650
Community14#13,511/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,516/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Caldwell, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Noble County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Property crime rate · low143 /100k
100/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationNoble County value
Violent crime rate · low38 /100k
99/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationNoble County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Ohio 18.9 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataNoble County value
Rent-burdened households · low23.4%
98/100Ohio 45.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataNoble County value
Rent as share of income · low21.2%
93/100Ohio 28.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low7 /100k
0/100Ohio 77 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNoble County value
New business applications · low6.3 /1k
1/100Ohio 14.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauNoble County value
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100Ohio 12.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationNoble County value
Distance to an emergency room · high18.3 mi
4/100Ohio 5.1 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNoble County value
Dentists · low21 /100k
5/100Ohio 66 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNoble County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.4 /10k
5/100Ohio 4.1 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsNoble County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,334 (2015-2019) → 1,667 (2020-2024)
−29%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
37.1% (2015-2019) → 1.5% (2020-2024)
−36 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
66.6% (2015-2019) → 81.5% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
13.6% (2015-2019) → 27.1% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Poverty rateImproving
18.4% (2015-2019) → 7.7% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
34.1% (2015-2019) → 23.4% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Caldwell, Ohio improved on 3 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Poverty−11 points18.4% → 7.7%
Bachelor's++14 points13.6% → 27.1%
Household income+48%$34,625 → $51,208

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Caldwell, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.6 min2015-2019	23.2 min2020-2024	+1.6 min	Within the margin of error	31%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.6%2015-2019	27.1%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	96%
Broadband subscriptions	66.6%2015-2019	81.5%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Effective property tax rate	0.91%2015-2019	0.85%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%
High school diploma or higher	88.7%2015-2019	94.5%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	89%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4072015-2019	0.4982020-2024	+0.090	Within the margin of error	6%
Median household income	$34,6252015-2019	$51,2082020-2024	+48%	Improved	83%
Poverty rate	18.4%2015-2019	7.7%2020-2024	−11 points	Improved	94%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.7%2015-2019	21.2%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Rent-burdened households	34.1%2015-2019	23.4%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	83%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Caldwell, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Caldwell, Ohio in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Caldwell, Ohio itself moved +5.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,667 residents (±346)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

785 households (±179)

Caldwell, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k18%†141
$25k–50k28%†223
$50k–75k23%

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

785 households (±179)

Caldwell, Ohio
Ohio share

Own69%541
Rent31%†244

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

595 workers (±151)

Caldwell, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone94%561
Carpool1.8%†11
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Noble County, the county holding most of Caldwell's residents.

Noble County has 226 employer establishments, 158 for every 10,000 residents (0.63× the US rate of 248; 0.73× Ohio's), with 1,968 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,002. The Census Bureau also counts 797 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 226; 797 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 158; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 1,968
Average annual pay: $42,002; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Noble County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	20	13.9	0.90×About typical	48	$40,104	86
Restaurants and other eating places	16	11.2	0.61×Fewer than typical	270	$14,633	—
Religious organizations	14	9.8	1.76×More than typical	33	$14,364	—
Truck transportation	14	9.8	1.93×More than typical	161	$72,199	39
Ambulatory health care services	11	7.7	0.37×Fewer than typical	101	$26,208	26
Limited-service restaurants	10	7	0.87×About typical	122	$14,287	—
Building equipment contractors	8	5.6	0.93×Too few to compare	17	$47,706	9
Automotive repair and maintenance	7	4.9	0.97×Too few to compare	20	$40,000	22
Construction of buildings	7	4.9	0.65×Too few to compare	27	$53,481	43
Full-service restaurants	6	4.2	0.54×Too few to compare	148	$14,919	—
Gasoline stations	6	4.2	1.29×Too few to compare	98	$25,531	—
Landscaping services	6	4.2	1.19×Too few to compare	7	$77,000	31

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 14,342 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Caldwell is mostly in Noble County.

See federal money in Noble County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Caldwell, Ohio is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Michael A. RulliR-OH-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 5.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Noble County31100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Noble County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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