Village · Licking County, Ohio

Granville, Ohio

Granville is a village in Licking County, Ohio, part of the Columbus, OH metro area. It has 5,999 residents. Granville, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 64 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,679 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #197 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), bachelor's degree or higher (high) and poverty rate (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), grocery stores (low) and distance to an Amtrak station (high).

64High

Quality-of-life score: #5,679 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #197 of 684 in OH
Population: 5,999 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 1,232.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 3931402

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety56#6,816/15,637
Economy90#1,512/15,631
Housing70#4,465/14,977
Health64#5,561/15,609
Healthcare37#9,846/15,650
Environment40#9,204/15,453
Education78#3,513/15,649
Infrastructure72#4,450/15,650
Community44#8,759/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,874/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Granville, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Licking 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 · high5.5%
98/100Ohio -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLicking County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · high66.3%
94/100Ohio 31.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Poverty rate · low2.7%
94/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Food insecurity · low7.7%
93/100Ohio 14.7%United States 15.6%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.1%
93/100Ohio 8.1%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Poor or fair health · low12.1%
91/100Ohio 19.2%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Ohio 3.6United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLicking County value
Grocery stores · low0.9 /10k
10/100Ohio 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLicking County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high90 mi
12/100Ohio 37 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLicking County value
Primary care physicians · low38 /100k
18/100Ohio 77 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLicking County value
Students per teacher · high17.4×
18/100Ohio 16.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsLicking County value
Suicide rate · high20.7 /100k
19/100Ohio 15.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLicking County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
21.5% (2015-2019) → 38.0% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
76.1% (2015-2019) → 66.3% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
17.8% (2015-2019) → 26.5% (2020-2024)
+8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
97.3% (2015-2019) → 91.1% (2020-2024)
−6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.2× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+25%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Average commute timeWorsening
19.6 min (2015-2019) → 21.6 min (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Granville, Ohio improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 8 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Broadband−6.2 points97.3% → 91.1%
Rent / income+8.7 points17.8% → 26.5%

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Granville, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.6 min2015-2019	21.6 min2020-2024	+2.1 min	Within the margin of error	26%
Bachelor's degree or higher	76.1%2015-2019	66.3%2020-2024	−9.8 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Broadband subscriptions	97.3%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Declined	2%
Effective property tax rate	1.74%2015-2019	1.45%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	73%
High school diploma or higher	98.7%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+0.8×	Within the margin of error	31%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4522015-2019	0.4402020-2024	−0.012	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$118,3752015-2019	$124,4082020-2024	+5.1%	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent as share of income	17.8%2015-2019	26.5%2020-2024	+8.7 points	Declined	11%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.3%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	31%

“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 Granville, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Granville, 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, Granville, Ohio itself moved −9.9 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

5,999 residents (±22)

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

1,859 households (±150)

Granville, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k5.2%†97
$25k–50k18%†330
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,859 households (±150)

Granville, Ohio
Ohio share

Own82%1,517
Rent18%†342

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

2,773 workers (±219)

Granville, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone45%1,234
Carpool3.3%†92
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 Columbus, 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 Licking County, the county holding most of Granville's residents.

Licking County has 3,277 employer establishments, 179 for every 10,000 residents (0.72× the US rate of 248; 0.83× Ohio's), with 77,088 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,488. The Census Bureau also counts 14,085 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,277; 14,085 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 179; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 77,088
Average annual pay: $46,488; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	284	15.5	0.84×About typical	5,261	$19,847	61
Specialty trade contractors	256	14	0.90×About typical	1,947	$63,359	1,322
Ambulatory health care services	193	10.5	0.51×Fewer than typical	2,606	$69,854	655
Limited-service restaurants	146	8	0.99×About typical	2,529	$18,416	26
Services to buildings and dwellings	144	7.9	1.17×About typical	828	$41,861	878
Religious organizations	137	7.5	1.35×More than typical	941	$26,057	—
Lessors of real estate	124	6.8	0.55×Fewer than typical	468	$45,487	1,375
Construction of buildings	113	6.2	0.82×About typical	617	$64,890	506
Building equipment contractors	103	5.6	0.93×About typical	919	$61,260	252
Full-service restaurants	99	5.4	0.70×Fewer than typical	2,259	$21,911	21
Automotive repair and maintenance	79	4.3	0.86×About typical	426	$45,754	190
Landscaping services	71	3.9	1.11×About typical	429	$48,473	344

Rank places for an industry Open Licking County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 183,197 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 $235K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Granville, Ohio: $39.17 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $235K; +11% vs FY2025
Per resident: $39.17; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 9.1%; 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

-71.2KFY2017
922.8FY2018
6.4KFY2019
6.6KFY2020
4.8KFY2023
79.5KFY2024
211.1KFY2025
235KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$104.3K44%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$42.7K18%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$33.8K14%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$15K6.4%
Boiler, tank, and shipping container manufacturing · 3324$12.8K5.5%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$9,958

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 Granville, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

Granville, Ohio's figures are part of those of Licking County, OH ($127.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

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

See federal money in Licking 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.

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

House

Troy BaldersonR-OH-12 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.3%

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.

Licking County64100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Columbus, OH70

Other cities and towns in Licking 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
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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