Village · Shelby County, Ohio

Fort Loramie, Ohio

Fort Loramie is a village in Shelby County, Ohio, part of the Sidney, OH metro area. It has 1,467 residents. Fort Loramie, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 67 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,222 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #168 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on uninsured residents (under 65) (low), average commute time (low) and primary care shortage (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), dentists (low) and comfortable days (low).

67High

Quality-of-life score: #5,222 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #168 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,467 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,421.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 3927832

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.

Safety55#7,059/15,637
Economy77#3,563/15,631
Housing85#2,232/14,977
Health41#9,133/15,609
Healthcare49#7,921/15,650
Environment35#10,043/15,453
Education78#3,457/15,649
Infrastructure88#1,956/15,650
Community52#7,521/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,381/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Fort Loramie, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Shelby 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

Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.3%
95/100Ohio 8.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Average commute time · low16.3 min
91/100Ohio 23.4 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Ohio 6.6United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationShelby County value
Reading scores · high3.30
88/100Ohio 3.06United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShelby County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.359
88/100Ohio 0.467United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Rent as share of income · low21.8%
87/100Ohio 28.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Ohio 3.6United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesShelby County value
Dentists · low29 /100k
10/100Ohio 66 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShelby County value
Comfortable days · low23.5%
13/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationShelby County value
New business applications · low9.1 /1k
16/100Ohio 14.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauShelby County value
Grocery stores · low1.0 /10k
16/100Ohio 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsShelby County value
Mental health providers · low113 /100k
17/100Ohio 371 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShelby County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
87.1% (2015-2019) → 96.0% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
35.6% (2015-2019) → 28.0% (2020-2024)
−7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$68,462 (2015-2019) → $93,750 (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
27.9% (2015-2019) → 32.1% (2020-2024)
+4.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
25.2% (2015-2019) → 21.8% (2020-2024)
−3.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
High school diploma or higherImproving
94.7% (2015-2019) → 97.9% (2020-2024)
+3.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Fort Loramie, Ohio improved on 2 of 11 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.

Improved2

Household income+37%$68,462 → $93,750
Broadband+8.9 points87.1% → 96.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Fort Loramie, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	17.5 min2015-2019	16.3 min2020-2024	−1.2 min	Within the margin of error	62%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.9%2015-2019	32.1%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Broadband subscriptions	87.1%2015-2019	96.0%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Improved	54%
Effective property tax rate	1.13%2015-2019	0.84%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	73%
High school diploma or higher	94.7%2015-2019	97.9%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+0.0×	Within the margin of error	78%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3702015-2019	0.3592020-2024	−0.011	Within the margin of error	60%
Median household income	$68,4622015-2019	$93,7502020-2024	+37%	Improved	69%
Poverty rate	3.5%2015-2019	5.8%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.2%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“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 Fort Loramie, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Fort Loramie, 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, Fort Loramie, Ohio itself moved +9.1 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,467 residents (±265)

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

526 households (±88)

Fort Loramie, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k10%†53
$25k–50k13%†71
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

526 households (±88)

Fort Loramie, Ohio
Ohio share

Own83%437
Rent17%†89

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

695 workers (±134)

Fort Loramie, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone91%634
Carpool3.7%†26
Public transit0.0%0

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 Sidney, 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 Shelby County, the county holding most of Fort Loramie's residents.

Shelby County has 989 employer establishments, 207 for every 10,000 residents (0.83× the US rate of 248; 0.96× Ohio's), with 24,487 paid employees at an average annual pay of $60,679. The Census Bureau also counts 3,211 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 989; 3,211 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 207; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 24,487
Average annual pay: $60,679; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	82	17.2	1.11×About typical	1,027	$74,651	266
Ambulatory health care services	75	15.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	616	$68,985	167
Restaurants and other eating places	71	14.9	0.81×About typical	1,338	$16,286	15
Religious organizations	39	8.2	1.47×More than typical	233	$19,133	—
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	37	7.7	4.85×More than typical	1,136	$61,448	14
Truck transportation	33	6.9	1.37×More than typical	960	$61,104	92
Building equipment contractors	31	6.5	1.08×About typical	806	$79,976	52
Full-service restaurants	30	6.3	0.82×About typical	534	$16,511	5
Offices of physicians	30	6.3	0.97×About typical	236	$88,665	15
Construction of buildings	29	6.1	0.80×About typical	367	$70,460	101
Lessors of real estate	29	6.1	0.49×Fewer than typical	62	$27,726	492
Limited-service restaurants	29	6.1	0.76×Fewer than typical	672	$17,527	7

Rank places for an industry Open Shelby County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 47,786 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 Fort Loramie, Ohio: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
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

1.6KFY2018
1.8KFY2019
869.1FY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Fort Loramie, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

Fort Loramie, Ohio's figures are part of those of Shelby County, OH ($2.3M 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: Fort Loramie is mostly in Shelby County.

See federal money in Shelby 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.

Fort Loramie, Ohio is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

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

Shelby County68100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Sidney, OH59

Other cities and towns in Shelby 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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