New Washington is a village in Crawford County, Ohio, part of the Bucyrus, OH metro area. It has 1,045 residents. New Washington, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 33 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,411 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #500 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), home price to income ratio (low) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on job growth (low), depression (high) and comfortable days (low).
33Low
Quality-of-life score
#10,411 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio
#500 of 684 in OH
Population
1,045 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
780.3 /mi²
FIPS code
3955776
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety71#4,541/15,637
Economy33#10,459/15,631
Housing92#1,126/14,977
Health18#12,750/15,609
Healthcare26#11,553/15,650
Environment47#8,265/15,453
Education13#13,566/15,649
Infrastructure52#7,585/15,650
Community35#10,245/15,651
Leisure & amenities16#13,176/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where New Washington, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Crawford 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.
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.
Cities and towns like New Washington, Ohio five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of New Washington, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: New Washington is mostly in Crawford County.
Over about five years, New Washington, Ohio improved on 0 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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.
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 9 measures
Change of every measure of New Washington, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
27.5 min2015-2019
27.0 min2020-2024
−0.5 min
Within the margin of error
53%
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.1%2015-2019
14.6%2020-2024
−3.4 points
Within the margin of error
11%
Broadband subscriptions
83.8%2015-2019
92.9%2020-2024
+9.1 points
Within the margin of error
55%
Effective property tax rate
1.15%2015-2019
1.11%2020-2024
−0 points
Within the margin of error
22%
High school diploma or higher
96.3%2015-2019
94.9%2020-2024
−1.4 points
Within the margin of error
19%
Home price to income ratio
1.6×2015-2019
1.8×2020-2024
+0.3×
Within the margin of error
63%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3712015-2019
0.4482020-2024
+0.076
Within the margin of error
8%
Median household income
$58,2692015-2019
$62,4462020-2024
+7.2%
Within the margin of error
14%
Rent as share of income
17.8%2015-2019
23.3%2020-2024
+5.5 points
Within the margin of error
20%
“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.
For comparison, New Washington, Ohio itself moved −13.1 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.
Household income
423 households (±85)
New Washington, Ohio
Ohio share
Under $25k10%†44
Under $25k
10%±4.8 points
44 households±22 (90% margin of error)
16%in Ohio
15%in United States
−8.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k19%†81
$25k–50k
19%±7.3 points
81 households±35 (90% margin of error)
19%in Ohio
17%in United States
−0.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k28%†117
$50k–75k
28%±12.0 points
117 households±56 (90% margin of error)
17%in Ohio
16%in United States
−2.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k22%†95
$75k–100k
22%±8.3 points
95 households±40 (90% margin of error)
13%in Ohio
13%in United States
+8.0 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k9.9%†42
$100k–150k
9.9%±4.7 points
42 households±21 (90% margin of error)
17%in Ohio
18%in United States
−1.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k6.6%†28
$150k–200k
6.6%±5.0 points
28 households±22 (90% margin of error)
8.3%in Ohio
9.6%in United States
+4.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more3.8%†16
$200k or more
3.8%±2.5 points
16 households±11 (90% margin of error)
9.1%in Ohio
13%in United States
+0.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
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.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Crawford County, the county holding most of New Washington's residents.
Crawford County has 779 employer establishments, 188 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.87× Ohio's), with 10,871 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,540. The Census Bureau also counts 2,458 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
779
2,458 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
188
US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees
10,871
Average annual pay
$45,540
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Crawford County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 41,485 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.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
