Village · Champaign County, Ohio

Mechanicsburg, Ohio

Mechanicsburg is a village in Champaign County, Ohio, part of the Urbana, OH metro area. It has 1,713 residents. Mechanicsburg, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 43 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,969 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #397 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent-burdened households (low), homicide rate (low) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), adult obesity (high) and restaurants and bars (low).

43Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,969 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #397 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,713 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,745.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 3948706

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Open in the map

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety80#3,179/15,637
Economy39#9,608/15,631
Housing94#844/14,977
Health28#11,220/15,609
Healthcare36#9,956/15,650
Environment43#8,740/15,453
Education17#13,023/15,649
Infrastructure36#10,087/15,650
Community51#7,733/15,651
Leisure & amenities34#10,346/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Rent-burdened households · low29.2%
95/100Ohio 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 dataChampaign County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low110 min
92/100Ohio 161 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesChampaign County value
Violent crime rate · low75 /100k
91/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationChampaign County value
Rent as share of income · low22.7%
88/100Ohio 28.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Unemployment rate · low1.6%
87/100Ohio 4.7%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low21 /100k
5/100Ohio 77 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteChampaign County value
Adult obesity · high44.4%
6/100Ohio 39.3%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Restaurants and bars · low5.2 /10k
12/100Ohio 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsChampaign County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low51.7%
12/100Ohio 84.2%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteChampaign County value
Public EV charging ports · low1.3 /10k
14/100Ohio 4.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyChampaign County value
Dentists · low34 /100k
15/100Ohio 66 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteChampaign County value

Trends

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

Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.7× (2015-2019) → 2.8× (2020-2024)
+66%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.343 (2015-2019) → 0.450 (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
24.2% (2015-2019) → 29.2% (2020-2024)
+5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
86.7% (2015-2019) → 90.8% (2020-2024)
+4.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Unemployment rateImproving
5.2% (2015-2019) → 1.6% (2020-2024)
−3.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
12.6% (2015-2019) → 15.4% (2020-2024)
+2.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Mechanicsburg, Ohio improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 11 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

Inequality+0.1070.343 → 0.450
Price / income+1.1×1.7× → 2.8×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Mechanicsburg, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.6 min2015-2019	29.8 min2020-2024	+1.2 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.0%2015-2019	15.5%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Broadband subscriptions	88.4%2015-2019	87.8%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Effective property tax rate	1.27%2015-2019	1.10%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	52%
High school diploma or higher	86.7%2015-2019	90.8%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	18%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3432015-2019	0.4502020-2024	+0.107	Declined	4%
Median household income	$56,5442015-2019	$59,5832020-2024	+5.4%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	12.6%2015-2019	15.4%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	20.1%2015-2019	22.7%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Rent-burdened households	24.2%2015-2019	29.2%2020-2024	+5 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.0%2015-2019	4.9%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	59%

“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 Mechanicsburg, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Mechanicsburg, 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, Mechanicsburg, Ohio itself moved −15.6 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

1,713 residents (±280)

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

650 households (±129)

Mechanicsburg, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k21%†136
$25k–50k22%†146
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

650 households (±129)

Mechanicsburg, Ohio
Ohio share

Own49%318
Rent51%†332

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−13.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

704 workers (±169)

Mechanicsburg, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone65%456
Carpool20%†139
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 Urbana, 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 Champaign County, the county holding most of Mechanicsburg's residents.

Champaign County has 566 employer establishments, 146 for every 10,000 residents (0.59× the US rate of 248; 0.68× Ohio's), with 8,605 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,418. The Census Bureau also counts 2,663 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 566; 2,663 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 146; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 8,605
Average annual pay: $51,418; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	45	11.6	0.63×Fewer than typical	672	$16,185	15
Religious organizations	32	8.3	1.49×More than typical	116	$16,888	—
Ambulatory health care services	31	8	0.38×Fewer than typical	175	$71,994	125
Specialty trade contractors	27	7	0.45×Fewer than typical	152	$54,026	285
Services to buildings and dwellings	26	6.7	1.00×About typical	467	$62,379	179
Construction of buildings	23	5.9	0.78×Fewer than typical	58	$32,207	145
Limited-service restaurants	21	5.4	0.68×Fewer than typical	431	$15,749	7
Automotive repair and maintenance	20	5.2	1.02×About typical	93	$42,452	54
Lessors of real estate	20	5.2	0.42×Fewer than typical	53	$40,245	176
Full-service restaurants	15	3.9	0.50×Fewer than typical	177	$17,311	5
Landscaping services	15	3.9	1.11×About typical	432	$66,141	77
Truck transportation	15	3.9	0.77×Fewer than typical	82	$47,122	86

Rank places for an industry Open Champaign County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 38,750 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Champaign 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.

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

House

Jim JordanR-OH-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%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.

Champaign County59100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Urbana, OH50

Other cities and towns in Champaign 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

JSON · /api/v1/places/3948706

Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends