Village · Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Gates Mills, Ohio

Gates Mills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, part of the Cleveland, OH metro area. It has 2,207 residents. Gates Mills, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 74 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,102 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #88 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on bachelor's degree or higher (high), food insecurity (low) and lack of reliable transportation (low). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), income inequality (Gini index) (high) and homicide rate (high).

74High

Quality-of-life score: #4,102 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #88 of 684 in OH
Population: 2,207 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 245.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 3929498

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety8#14,334/15,637
Economy81#2,931/15,631
Housing71#4,401/14,977
Health69#4,777/15,609
Healthcare87#2,005/15,650
Environment39#9,434/15,453
Education57#6,671/15,649
Infrastructure99#132/15,650
Community49#7,936/15,651
Leisure & amenities80#3,174/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Gates Mills, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Cuyahoga 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

Bachelor's degree or higher · high76.8%
99/100Ohio 31.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Food insecurity · low6.2%
98/100Ohio 14.7%United States 15.6%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Lack of reliable transportation · low4.2%
98/100Ohio 8.1%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Physical inactivity · low13.8%
98/100Ohio 28.1%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Broadband subscriptions · high99.3%
98/100Ohio 90.1%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Poor or fair health · low10.4%
97/100Ohio 19.2%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Child care cost burden · high45.8%
2/100Ohio 31.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCuyahoga County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.530
3/100Ohio 0.467United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Homicide rate · high11.8 /100k
6/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCuyahoga County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.92%
9/100Ohio 1.36%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Violent crime rate · high510 /100k
10/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCuyahoga County value
Median Air Quality Index · high53
10/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCuyahoga County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
32.5% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−33 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedImproving
1.4 /1k (2021) → 2.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+65%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
90.0% (2015-2019) → 99.3% (2020-2024)
+9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$165,167 (2015-2019) → $231,250 (2020-2024)
+40%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeImproving
25.4 min (2015-2019) → 19.5 min (2020-2024)
−23%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
72.8% (2015-2019) → 76.8% (2020-2024)
+4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Gates Mills, Ohio improved on 2 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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+40%$165,167 → $231,250
Broadband+9.2 points90.0% → 99.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Gates Mills, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.4 min2015-2019	19.5 min2020-2024	−5.9 min	Within the margin of error	93%
Bachelor's degree or higher	72.8%2015-2019	76.8%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Broadband subscriptions	90.0%2015-2019	99.3%2020-2024	+9.2 points	Improved	56%
Effective property tax rate	2.07%2015-2019	1.92%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	48%
High school diploma or higher	97.6%2015-2019	99.6%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	3.2×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	71%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5402015-2019	0.5302020-2024	−0.010	Within the margin of error	60%
Median household income	$165,1672015-2019	$231,2502020-2024	+40%	Improved	74%
Poverty rate	6.2%2015-2019	6.1%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	44%

“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 Gates Mills, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Gates Mills, 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, Gates Mills, Ohio itself moved +8.6 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

2,207 residents (±384)

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

848 households (±62)

Gates Mills, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k7.8%†66
$25k–50k3.1%†26
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

848 households (±62)

Gates Mills, Ohio
Ohio share

Own97%820
Rent3.3%†28

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+2.4 points).

† 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

930 workers (±269)

Gates Mills, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone78%†728
Carpool4.7%†44
Public transit

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 Cleveland, 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 Cuyahoga County, the county holding most of Gates Mills's residents.

Cuyahoga County has 31,496 employer establishments, 255 for every 10,000 residents (1.03× the US rate of 248; 1.18× Ohio's), with 681,543 paid employees at an average annual pay of $70,297. The Census Bureau also counts 115,350 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 31,496; 115,350 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 255; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 681,543
Average annual pay: $70,297; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	2,553	20.7	1.13×About typical	46,635	$22,955	643
Ambulatory health care services	2,366	19.2	0.92×About typical	42,132	$63,005	6,775
Lessors of real estate	1,403	11.4	0.92×About typical	10,238	$71,798	11,000
Specialty trade contractors	1,313	10.6	0.69×Fewer than typical	18,205	$83,879	6,162
Limited-service restaurants	1,266	10.3	1.28×More than typical	19,867	$19,511	312
Full-service restaurants	983	8	1.04×About typical	22,804	$26,588	242
Legal services	825	6.7	1.24×About typical	8,177	$109,423	1,502
Management, scientific and technical consulting	809	6.6	0.98×About typical	9,215	$97,468	4,503
Services to buildings and dwellings	766	6.2	0.92×About typical	7,730	$37,865	6,900
Offices of physicians	695	5.6	0.87×About typical	16,094	$86,709	1,214
Personal care services	689	5.6	1.17×About typical	4,012	$29,536	6,633
Insurance agencies and brokerages	608	4.9	1.12×About typical	5,948	$82,847	1,459

Rank places for an industry Open Cuyahoga County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,234,796 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 Gates Mills, Ohio: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

182.9KFY2019
182.9KFY2020
21.7KFY2022
283.1KFY2023
38.3KFY2024
33.9KFY2025

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 Gates Mills, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

Gates Mills, Ohio's figures are part of those of Cuyahoga County, OH ($603.5M 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: Gates Mills is mostly in Cuyahoga County.

See federal money in Cuyahoga 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.

Gates Mills, 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.

Cuyahoga County53100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cleveland, OH64

Other cities and towns in Cuyahoga 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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