Census-designated place · Hamilton County, Ohio

Monfort Heights, Ohio

Monfort Heights is a census-designated place in Hamilton County, Ohio, part of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area. It has 12,441 residents. Monfort Heights, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 68 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,058 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #157 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on child poverty rate (low), poverty rate (low) and access to exercise opportunities (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), child care cost burden (high) and property crime rate (high).

68High

Quality-of-life score: #5,058 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #157 of 684 in OH
Population: 12,441 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 2,097.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3951212

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.

Safety11#13,839/15,637
Economy84#2,472/15,631
Housing75#3,793/14,977
Health60#6,290/15,609
Healthcare86#2,265/15,650
Environment6#14,458/15,453
Education64#5,593/15,649
Infrastructure73#4,213/15,650
Community66#5,273/15,651
Leisure & amenities81#2,923/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Child poverty rate · low0.0%
99/100Ohio 16.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Poverty rate · low1.9%
97/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Access to exercise opportunities · high98.0%
92/100Ohio 84.2%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHamilton County value
Drought exposure · low2%
91/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAHamilton County value
Distance to an emergency room · low3.1 mi
91/100Ohio 5.1 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHamilton County value
Flu vaccinations · high54.0%
90/100Ohio 48.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHamilton County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low21.4%
1/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHamilton County value
Child care cost burden · high41.2%
6/100Ohio 31.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHamilton County value
Property crime rate · high2,303 /100k
7/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationHamilton County value
Median Air Quality Index · high54
7/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHamilton County value
Homicide rate · high10.0 /100k
9/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataHamilton County value
Days with unhealthy air · high3.6%
11/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHamilton County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
30.1% (2015-2019) → 51.6% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.1% (2015-2019) → 30.6% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$71,038 (2015-2019) → $88,457 (2020-2024)
+25%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.1× (2015-2019) → 2.6× (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
38.2% (2015-2019) → 42.0% (2020-2024)
+3.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
3.5% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−3.5 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, Monfort Heights, Ohio improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 7 moved within the margin of error and 1 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

Poverty−2.2 points4.0% → 1.9%
Household income+25%$71,038 → $88,457

Declined3

Rent burden+21 points30.1% → 51.6%
Transit use−1 points1.0% → 0.0%
Price / income+0.5×2.1× → 2.6×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Monfort Heights, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.8 min2015-2019	24.7 min2020-2024	+0.9 min	Within the margin of error	38%
Bachelor's degree or higher	38.2%2015-2019	42.0%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Broadband subscriptions	89.7%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Effective property tax rate	1.81%2015-2019	1.48%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	79%
High school diploma or higher	96.1%2015-2019	95.8%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.5×	Declined	48%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3932015-2019	0.4012020-2024	+0.008	Within the margin of error	44%
Median household income	$71,0382015-2019	$88,4572020-2024	+25%	Improved	43%
Poverty rate	4.0%2015-2019	1.9%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Improved	64%
Public transit commuters	1.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−1 points	Declined	18%
Rent as share of income	23.1%2015-2019	30.6%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Rent-burdened households	30.1%2015-2019	51.6%2020-2024	+21 points	Declined	7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	2.4%2015-2019	3.6%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	32%

“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 Monfort Heights, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Monfort Heights, 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, Monfort Heights, Ohio itself moved −14.8 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

12,441 residents (±1,508)

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

5,250 households (±421)

Monfort Heights, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k6.3%†333
$25k–50k16%†824
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,250 households (±421)

Monfort Heights, Ohio
Ohio share

Own79%4,161
Rent21%1,089

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

6,299 workers (±756)

Monfort Heights, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone79%4,956
Carpool4.9%†308
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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

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 Hamilton County, the county holding most of Monfort Heights's residents.

Hamilton County has 21,087 employer establishments, 254 for every 10,000 residents (1.02× the US rate of 248; 1.17× Ohio's), with 529,211 paid employees at an average annual pay of $70,726. The Census Bureau also counts 69,341 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 21,087; 69,341 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 254; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 529,211
Average annual pay: $70,726; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	1,678	20.2	1.10×About typical	37,707	$22,525	282
Ambulatory health care services	1,609	19.3	0.93×About typical	30,698	$90,670	3,666
Lessors of real estate	974	11.7	0.95×About typical	7,165	$79,720	7,634
Specialty trade contractors	914	11	0.71×Fewer than typical	15,614	$74,483	3,495
Limited-service restaurants	751	9	1.13×About typical	14,814	$19,694	123
Full-service restaurants	714	8.6	1.12×About typical	20,201	$25,231	104
Management, scientific and technical consulting	529	6.4	0.95×About typical	5,421	$125,563	3,113
Services to buildings and dwellings	514	6.2	0.92×About typical	8,538	$33,519	3,552
Religious organizations	511	6.1	1.11×About typical	6,034	$30,686	—
Construction of buildings	474	5.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	4,523	$96,161	1,444
Offices of physicians	456	5.5	0.85×About typical	14,506	$134,404	691
Personal care services	421	5.1	1.06×About typical	2,905	$32,345	3,342

Rank places for an industry Open Hamilton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 831,699 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 $270.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Monfort Heights, Ohio: $21.76 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $270.7K; −29% vs FY2025
Per resident: $21.76; US $1,994
Sole-source: 3.2%; US 30%
Single offer: 23%; 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$206.3K76%
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$55.3K20%
Department of the Navy$2,9381.1%
Transportation Security Administration$2,8301.0%
Department of Veterans Affairs$2,5470.9%
Internal Revenue Service$7870.3%

Top recipients

GIESTING & ASSOCIATES, INC.$206.3K76%
LEJAS CORPORATION$55.3K20%
NORTHSIDE CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY CO INC$2,9381.1%
MAX WEB CONTRACTING LLC$2,8301.0%
ABILITIES IN MOTION, LLC$2,5470.9%

Spending by fiscal year

224.9KFY2017
337KFY2018
369.1KFY2019
122KFY2020
210KFY2021
85.5KFY2022
232.4KFY2023
393.8KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$58.3K22%
Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$55.3K20%
Motor vehicle parts manufacturing · 3363$51.5K19%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$27.9K10%
Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$19.6K7.3%
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers · 4238$9,377

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 Monfort Heights, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

Monfort Heights, Ohio's figures are part of those of Hamilton County, OH ($1.3B 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: Monfort Heights is mostly in Hamilton County.

See federal money in Hamilton 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.

Monfort Heights, Ohio is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Hamilton County57100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN69

Other cities and towns in Hamilton 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

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends