City · Columbiana County, Ohio

East Liverpool, Ohio

East Liverpool is a city in Columbiana County, Ohio, part of the Salem, OH metro area. It has 9,783 residents. East Liverpool, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 20 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,469 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #628 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), social associations (high) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on child poverty rate (high), poverty rate (high) and adult smoking (high).

20Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,469 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #628 of 684 in OH
Population: 9,783 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 2,081.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3923730

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.

Safety77#3,530/15,637
Economy4#15,058/15,631
Housing70#4,438/14,977
Health7#14,550/15,609
Healthcare16#13,095/15,650
Environment51#7,524/15,453
Education27#11,371/15,649
Infrastructure17#13,056/15,650
Community34#10,339/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,841/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where East Liverpool, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Columbiana 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

Job growth · high2.8%
93/100Ohio -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataColumbiana County value
Social associations · high15.1 /10k
91/100Ohio 10.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteColumbiana County value
Property crime rate · low507 /100k
89/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureColumbiana County value
Drought exposure · low3%
89/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAColumbiana County value
Hot days · low4 days
88/100Ohio 11 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationColumbiana County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.4×
83/100Ohio 3.0×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077

Weaknesses

Child poverty rate · high50.9%
1/100Ohio 16.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Poverty rate · high32.9%
2/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Adult smoking · high25.2%
2/100Ohio 17.6%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Median household income · low$34,009
2/100Ohio $72,259United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Frequent mental distress · high23.0%
3/100Ohio 19.5%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult obesity · high45.5%
4/100Ohio 39.3%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
10,692 (2015-2019) → 9,783 (2020-2024)
−8.5%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.7% (2015-2019) → 84.0% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
40.8% (2015-2019) → 50.9% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.7× (2015-2019) → 2.4× (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
27.9% (2015-2019) → 32.9% (2020-2024)
+4.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
10.4% (2015-2019) → 5.9% (2020-2024)
−4.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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, East Liverpool, Ohio improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 10 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.

Improved2

Unemployment−4.5 points10.4% → 5.9%
Broadband+11 points72.7% → 84.0%

Declined2

Child poverty+10 points40.8% → 50.9%
Price / income+0.7×1.7× → 2.4×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of East Liverpool, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.3 min2015-2019	25.2 min2020-2024	−0.1 min	Within the margin of error	49%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.4%2015-2019	9.2%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Broadband subscriptions	72.7%2015-2019	84.0%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	66%
Child poverty rate	40.8%2015-2019	50.9%2020-2024	+10 points	Declined	12%
Effective property tax rate	1.42%2015-2019	1.05%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	82%
High school diploma or higher	83.9%2015-2019	86.9%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	38%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4852015-2019	0.4832020-2024	−0.002	Within the margin of error	52%
Median household income	$32,1192015-2019	$34,0092020-2024	+5.9%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	27.9%2015-2019	32.9%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Rent as share of income	29.6%2015-2019	29.4%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Rent-burdened households	49.1%2015-2019	48.2%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Unemployment rate	10.4%2015-2019	5.9%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Improved	95%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.9%2015-2019	10.0%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%

“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 East Liverpool, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of East Liverpool, 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, East Liverpool, Ohio itself moved +0.4 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

9,783 residents (±21)

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

3,991 households (±234)

East Liverpool, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k34%1,364
$25k–50k28%1,108
$50k–75k14%†548

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,991 households (±234)

East Liverpool, Ohio
Ohio share

Own55%2,210
Rent45%1,781

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

3,615 workers (±426)

East Liverpool, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone80%2,892
Carpool14%†522
Public transit0.7%†25

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Salem, OH

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 Columbiana County, the county holding most of East Liverpool's residents.

Columbiana County has 1,907 employer establishments, 191 for every 10,000 residents (0.77× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Ohio's), with 25,092 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,613. The Census Bureau also counts 6,637 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,907; 6,637 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 191; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 25,092
Average annual pay: $43,613; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	149	14.9	0.81×About typical	2,715	$19,826	36
Ambulatory health care services	137	13.7	0.66×Fewer than typical	1,372	$50,813	242
Specialty trade contractors	113	11.3	0.73×Fewer than typical	604	$56,853	644
Religious organizations	92	9.2	1.66×More than typical	468	$16,199	—
Limited-service restaurants	80	8	1.00×About typical	1,481	$22,111	14
Truck transportation	59	5.9	1.17×About typical	921	$64,293	248
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	53	5.3	3.32×More than typical	1,549	$59,199	37
Automotive repair and maintenance	50	5	0.99×About typical	188	$38,149	136
Offices of physicians	50	5	0.77×Fewer than typical	295	$115,031	39
Full-service restaurants	45	4.5	0.59×Fewer than typical	876	$18,016	16
Services to buildings and dwellings	43	4.3	0.64×Fewer than typical	150	$39,213	433
Building equipment contractors	40	4	0.66×Fewer than typical	272	$56,691	84

Rank places for an industry Open Columbiana County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 100,060 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

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in East Liverpool, Ohio: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

42.7KFY2018
39.3FY2019
1.8KFY2022
3.7KFY2023

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in East Liverpool, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

East Liverpool, Ohio's figures are part of those of Columbiana County, OH ($13.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Columbiana 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.

East Liverpool, 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.

Columbiana County44100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Salem, OH31

Other cities and towns in Columbiana 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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