City · Lake County, Ohio

Kirtland, Ohio

Kirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, part of the Cleveland, OH metro area. It has 6,911 residents. Kirtland, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 83 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,633 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #29 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on traffic deaths (low), natural hazard risk (low) and lack of reliable transportation (low). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), high ozone days (high) and preventable hospital stays (high).

83Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,633 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #29 of 684 in OH
Population: 6,911 (2020-2024)
Land area: 17 mi²
Density: 414.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3940642

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.

Safety79#3,245/15,637
Economy70#4,658/15,631
Housing71#4,403/14,977
Health73#4,155/15,609
Healthcare68#5,071/15,650
Environment69#4,761/15,453
Education80#3,181/15,649
Infrastructure64#5,645/15,650
Community60#6,228/15,651
Leisure & amenities62#5,962/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Traffic deaths · low4.7 /100k
96/100Ohio 10.6 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataLake County value
Natural hazard risk · low3.6
95/100Ohio 14.52025Federal Emergency Management AgencyLake County value
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.1%
93/100Ohio 8.1%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Food insecurity · low8.0%
92/100Ohio 14.7%United States 15.6%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Ohio 12.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationLake County value
Hot days · low5 days
87/100Ohio 11 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLake County value

Weaknesses

Child care cost burden · high38.5%
12/100Ohio 31.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLake County value
High ozone days · high6 days
13/100Ohio 3 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyLake County value
Preventable hospital stays · high3,544 /100k
19/100Ohio 3,269 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLake County value
Students per teacher · high17.0×
21/100Ohio 16.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsLake County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.46%
23/100Ohio 1.36%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.464
24/100Ohio 0.467United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.0% (2015-2019) → 44.2% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
41.0% (2015-2019) → 47.8% (2020-2024)
+6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
7.7% (2015-2019) → 1.0% (2020-2024)
−6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$91,683 (2015-2019) → $110,455 (2020-2024)
+20%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Unemployment rateWorsening
1.9% (2015-2019) → 5.2% (2020-2024)
+3.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
21.3% (2015-2019) → 24.0% (2020-2024)
+2.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Kirtland, Ohio improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 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.

Declined1

Unemployment+3.3 points1.9% → 5.2%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Kirtland, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.3 min2015-2019	24.2 min2020-2024	−1.1 min	Within the margin of error	61%
Bachelor's degree or higher	41.0%2015-2019	47.8%2020-2024	+6.8 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Broadband subscriptions	90.5%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Effective property tax rate	1.72%2015-2019	1.46%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	68%
High school diploma or higher	94.6%2015-2019	94.1%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	60%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4992015-2019	0.4642020-2024	−0.034	Within the margin of error	77%
Median household income	$91,6832015-2019	$110,4552020-2024	+20%	Within the margin of error	34%
Poverty rate	5.5%2015-2019	4.7%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	31.0%2015-2019	44.2%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Unemployment rate	1.9%2015-2019	5.2%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Declined	8%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	1.9%2015-2019	2.9%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	34%

“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 Kirtland, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Kirtland, 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, Kirtland, Ohio itself moved −4.8 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

6,911 residents (±27)

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

2,802 households (±186)

Kirtland, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k7.6%†212
$25k–50k11%†319
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,802 households (±186)

Kirtland, Ohio
Ohio share

Own91%2,562
Rent8.6%†240

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+6.0 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

3,242 workers (±227)

Kirtland, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone69%2,253
Carpool4.2%†137
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 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 Lake County, the county holding most of Kirtland's residents.

Lake County has 5,504 employer establishments, 238 for every 10,000 residents (0.96× the US rate of 248; 1.10× Ohio's), with 87,115 paid employees at an average annual pay of $60,241. The Census Bureau also counts 18,467 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 5,504; 18,467 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 238; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 87,115
Average annual pay: $60,241; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	464	20	1.09×About typical	8,736	$19,748	76
Ambulatory health care services	399	17.2	0.83×About typical	5,159	$70,929	730
Specialty trade contractors	374	16.1	1.04×About typical	2,491	$71,345	1,579
Services to buildings and dwellings	237	10.2	1.52×More than typical	903	$53,414	1,145
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	228	9.8	6.16×More than typical	5,411	$61,615	66
Limited-service restaurants	207	8.9	1.11×About typical	3,817	$17,403	41
Full-service restaurants	183	7.9	1.03×About typical	4,171	$22,061	27
Construction of buildings	179	7.7	1.02×About typical	1,205	$80,283	505
Landscaping services	176	7.6	2.17×More than typical	525	$69,996	406
Lessors of real estate	172	7.4	0.60×Fewer than typical	665	$51,223	2,029
Automotive repair and maintenance	144	6.2	1.23×About typical	827	$47,642	204
Personal care services	136	5.9	1.23×About typical	710	$25,000	825

Rank places for an industry Open Lake County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 231,648 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 $264.8K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Kirtland, Ohio: $38.32 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $264.8K; −44% vs FY2025
Per resident: $38.32; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$253.7K96%
Department of the Navy$11.1K4.2%

Top recipients

THE ERICSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY$125.2K47%
HARBINGER ENGINEERING INC$78.5K30%
BOWDEN MANUFACTURING CORP$62.1K23%
ES3 PRIME LOGISTICS GROUP INC$00.0%
RIMECO PRODUCTS INC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

918.6KFY2017
1.2MFY2018
999.1KFY2019
828.1KFY2020
297KFY2021
582.8KFY2022
454.3KFY2023
490.2K

Top industries (NAICS)

Electric lighting equipment manufacturing · 3351$125.2K47%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$64K24%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$39.6K15%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$20.4K7.7%
Spring and wire product manufacturing · 3326$9,7563.7%
Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$5,931

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

Kirtland, Ohio's figures are part of those of Lake County, OH ($48.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.5% of that total.

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

See federal money in Lake 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.

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

House

David P. JoyceR-OH-14 · 100% of residentsWith party 92%Missed 3.3%

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.

Lake County89100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cleveland, OH64

Other cities and towns in Lake 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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Scores by category

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