Village · Summit County, Ohio

Northfield, Ohio

Northfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, part of the Akron, OH metro area. It has 3,543 residents. Northfield, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 43 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,883 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #390 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on natural hazard risk (low), drought exposure (low) and hospital quality rating (high). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), homicide rate (high) and depression (high).

43Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,883 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #390 of 684 in OH
Population: 3,543 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 3,382.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3956448

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety16#13,129/15,637
Economy37#9,787/15,631
Housing55#6,706/14,977
Health23#11,969/15,609
Healthcare74#4,143/15,650
Environment50#7,724/15,453
Education47#8,312/15,649
Infrastructure46#8,487/15,650
Community56#6,842/15,651
Leisure & amenities64#5,667/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Natural hazard risk · low3.4
95/100Ohio 14.52025Federal Emergency Management AgencySummit County value
Drought exposure · low1%
92/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAASummit County value
Hospital quality rating · high4.3
91/100Ohio 3.6United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesSummit County value
Primary care physicians · high101 /100k
84/100Ohio 77 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSummit County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.3×
84/100Ohio 3.0×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Flu vaccinations · high52.0%
83/100Ohio 48.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSummit County value

Weaknesses

Child care cost burden · high40.6%
7/100Ohio 31.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSummit County value
Homicide rate · high8.4 /100k
12/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSummit County value
Depression · high27.8%
13/100Ohio 26.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Ohio 2.7 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Violent crime rate · high421 /100k
15/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationSummit County value
Property crime rate · high1,919 /100k
16/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationSummit County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
38.4% (2015-2019) → 63.8% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.8 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.3% (2015-2019) → 91.5% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.6% (2015-2019) → 34.8% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.326 (2015-2019) → 0.472 (2020-2024)
+45%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Average commute timeWorsening
21.9 min (2015-2019) → 31.2 min (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Northfield, Ohio improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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

Broadband+15 points76.3% → 91.5%

Declined1

Rent burden+25 points38.4% → 63.8%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Northfield, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.9 min2015-2019	31.2 min2020-2024	+9.4 min	Within the margin of error	3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.4%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Broadband subscriptions	76.3%2015-2019	91.5%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Effective property tax rate	1.64%2015-2019	1.58%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
High school diploma or higher	96.4%2015-2019	90.3%2020-2024	−6.1 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	71%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3262015-2019	0.4722020-2024	+0.145	Within the margin of error	2%
Median household income	$65,3752015-2019	$70,9172020-2024	+8.5%	Within the margin of error	15%
Poverty rate	6.7%2015-2019	12.4%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.6%2015-2019	34.8%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Rent-burdened households	38.4%2015-2019	63.8%2020-2024	+25 points	Declined	5%

“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 Northfield, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Northfield, 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, Northfield, Ohio itself moved −28.9 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

3,543 residents (±19)

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

1,557 households (±144)

Northfield, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k14%†219
$25k–50k20%†307
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,557 households (±144)

Northfield, Ohio
Ohio share

Own72%1,127
Rent28%†430

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,857 workers (±173)

Northfield, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone75%1,395
Carpool7.8%†144
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 Akron, 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 Summit County, the county holding most of Northfield's residents.

Summit County has 13,309 employer establishments, 248 for every 10,000 residents (1.00× the US rate of 248; 1.15× Ohio's), with 249,827 paid employees at an average annual pay of $58,332. The Census Bureau also counts 45,129 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 13,309; 45,129 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 248; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 249,827
Average annual pay: $58,332; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	1,017	19	0.91×About typical	15,976	$71,630	2,524
Restaurants and other eating places	1,009	18.8	1.03×About typical	20,637	$20,218	195
Specialty trade contractors	662	12.4	0.80×Fewer than typical	6,776	$74,209	2,854
Limited-service restaurants	520	9.7	1.21×About typical	10,242	$18,472	94
Lessors of real estate	479	8.9	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,824	$54,329	4,028
Services to buildings and dwellings	395	7.4	1.09×About typical	4,098	$39,248	2,458
Full-service restaurants	362	6.8	0.88×About typical	8,879	$22,389	80
Religious organizations	352	6.6	1.18×About typical	3,243	$28,637	—
Management, scientific and technical consulting	314	5.9	0.87×About typical	2,679	$76,050	1,639
Automotive repair and maintenance	309	5.8	1.15×About typical	2,095	$44,633	452
Construction of buildings	294	5.5	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,966	$71,617	1,034
Offices of physicians	292	5.4	0.84×About typical	7,813	$95,673	386

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 535,908 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 $10.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Northfield, Ohio: $3.02 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $10.7K; +15% vs FY2025
Per resident: $3.02; 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

National Park Service$10.7K100%

Top recipients

PIRC COMPANY LANDSCAPING & SNOWPLOWING LLC$9,88092%
SYTE CORPORATION$5315.0%
S A COMUNALE CO INC$3012.8%

Spending by fiscal year

34.8KFY2017
3.7KFY2018
21.9KFY2019
8.1KFY2020
10.7KFY2021
12.9KFY2022
145.7KFY2023
25.8KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$9,88092%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$8327.8%

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

Northfield, Ohio's figures are part of those of Summit County, OH ($56.7M 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: Northfield is mostly in Summit County.

See federal money in Summit 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.

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

House

Emilia Strong SykesD-OH-13 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 2.7%

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.

Summit County61100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Akron, OH65

Other cities and towns in Summit 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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