Village · Vinton County, Ohio

McArthur, Ohio

McArthur is a village in Vinton County, Ohio. It has 2,110 residents. McArthur, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 19 out of 100 (very low), ranking #12,678 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #644 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), firearm deaths (low) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on life expectancy (low), restaurants and bars (low) and premature death (high).

19Very low

Quality-of-life score: #12,678 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #644 of 684 in OH
Population: 2,110 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,251.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 3945696

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety78#3,497/15,637
Economy8#14,360/15,631
Housing88#1,728/14,977
Health10#14,109/15,609
Healthcare6#14,780/15,650
Environment48#8,103/15,453
Education48#8,098/15,649
Infrastructure20#12,550/15,650
Community2#15,310/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,453/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Ohio 15.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataVinton County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Ohio 13.9 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataVinton County value
Rent-burdened households · low31.3%
97/100Ohio 45.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataVinton County value
Drought exposure · low1%
93/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAVinton County value
Property crime rate · low473 /100k
91/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationVinton County value

Weaknesses

Life expectancy · low67.8 yrs
1/100Ohio 75.7 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVinton County value
Restaurants and bars · low2.4 /10k
1/100Ohio 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsVinton County value
Premature death · high18,921 /100k
1/100Ohio 9,422 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVinton County value
Injury deaths · high180 /100k
1/100Ohio 104 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVinton County value
Social associations · low2.4 /10k
1/100Ohio 10.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVinton County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low31.0%
2/100Ohio 84.2%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVinton County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,453 (2015-2019) → 2,110 (2020-2024)
+45%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.3% (2015-2019) → 31.3% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$33,661 (2015-2019) → $49,439 (2020-2024)
+47%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.4% (2015-2019) → 84.5% (2020-2024)
+8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
85.0% (2015-2019) → 91.5% (2020-2024)
+6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
41.6% (2015-2019) → 37.1% (2020-2024)
−4.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, McArthur, Ohio improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 13 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.

Improved1

Rent burden−18 points49.3% → 31.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of McArthur, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.1 min2015-2019	23.6 min2020-2024	−1.4 min	Within the margin of error	65%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.9%2015-2019	18.3%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	76.4%2015-2019	84.5%2020-2024	+8 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Child poverty rate	41.6%2015-2019	37.1%2020-2024	−4.6 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Effective property tax rate	1.11%2015-2019	0.98%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	43%
High school diploma or higher	85.0%2015-2019	91.5%2020-2024	+6.5 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Home price to income ratio	3.5×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	63%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4512015-2019	0.4742020-2024	+0.023	Within the margin of error	32%
Median household income	$33,6612015-2019	$49,4392020-2024	+47%	Within the margin of error	82%
Poverty rate	23.9%2015-2019	26.7%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.8%2015-2019	25.9%2020-2024	−3.9 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Rent-burdened households	49.3%2015-2019	31.3%2020-2024	−18 points	Improved	92%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.8%2015-2019	8.5%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	37%

“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 McArthur, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of McArthur, 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, McArthur, Ohio itself moved +9 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

2,110 residents (±353)

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

952 households (±153)

McArthur, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k34%†322
$25k–50k17%†165
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

952 households (±153)

McArthur, Ohio
Ohio share

Own46%434
Rent54%518

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

909 workers (±245)

McArthur, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone72%654
Carpool12%†107
Public transit0.0%0

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 Vinton County, the county holding most of McArthur's residents.

Vinton County has 142 employer establishments, 114 for every 10,000 residents (0.46× the US rate of 248; 0.53× Ohio's), with 1,638 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,465. The Census Bureau also counts 762 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 142; 762 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 114; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 1,638
Average annual pay: $37,465; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	11	8.8	0.57×Fewer than typical	34	$62,588	95
Truck transportation	8	6.4	1.27×Too few to compare	66	$56,561	28
Construction of buildings	7	5.6	0.74×Too few to compare	18	$38,389	81
Gasoline stations	7	5.6	1.73×Too few to compare	80	$17,650	—
Restaurants and other eating places	7	5.6	0.31×Too few to compare	82	$16,244	4
Individual and family services	6	4.8	1.72×Too few to compare	225	$31,667	3
Building equipment contractors	5	4	0.67×Too few to compare	13	$55,692	8
General merchandise stores	5	4	2.27×Too few to compare	34	$23,353	8
Heavy and civil engineering construction	5	4	3.50×Too few to compare	12	$61,750	—
Lessors of real estate	5	4	0.33×Too few to compare	31	$24,387	42
Limited-service restaurants	5	4	0.50×Too few to compare	59	$13,780	3
Ambulatory health care services	4	3.2	0.15×Too few to compare	73	$44,425	30

Rank places for an industry Open Vinton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 12,466 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 McArthur, 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

165.4FY2022
1.3KFY2023

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

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

See federal money in Vinton 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.

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

House

David J. TaylorR-OH-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.0%

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.

Vinton County11100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Vinton 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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