Oak Hill is a village in Jackson County, Ohio. It has 1,545 residents. Oak Hill, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,631 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #517 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), drought exposure (low) and home price to income ratio (low). It ranks worst on depression (high), life expectancy (low) and average weekly wage (low).
32Low
Quality-of-life score
#10,631 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio
#517 of 684 in OH
Population
1,545 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
1,215.9 /mi²
FIPS code
3957596
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety61#6,075/15,637
Economy16#13,153/15,631
Housing89#1,669/14,977
Health7#14,559/15,609
Healthcare38#9,717/15,650
Environment66#5,325/15,453
Education56#6,874/15,649
Infrastructure19#12,638/15,650
Community15#13,252/15,651
Leisure & amenities31#10,748/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Oak Hill, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jackson 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 Oak Hill, Ohio five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Oak Hill, 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.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Oak Hill is mostly in Jackson County.
Over about five years, Oak Hill, Ohio improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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 12 measures
Change of every measure of Oak Hill, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
25.8 min2015-2019
24.3 min2020-2024
−1.5 min
Within the margin of error
66%
Bachelor's degree or higher
10.2%2015-2019
16.3%2020-2024
+6.1 points
Within the margin of error
75%
Broadband subscriptions
72.5%2015-2019
82.4%2020-2024
+9.9 points
Within the margin of error
59%
High school diploma or higher
85.2%2015-2019
91.1%2020-2024
+5.9 points
Within the margin of error
86%
Home price to income ratio
1.9×2015-2019
2.1×2020-2024
+0.2×
Within the margin of error
67%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4292015-2019
0.4202020-2024
−0.009
Within the margin of error
59%
Median household income
$35,8492015-2019
$44,8212020-2024
+25%
Within the margin of error
44%
Poverty rate
26.7%2015-2019
18.4%2020-2024
−8.3 points
Within the margin of error
90%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
60%
Rent as share of income
25.8%2015-2019
29.6%2020-2024
+3.8 points
Within the margin of error
28%
Rent-burdened households
46.1%2015-2019
49.1%2020-2024
+3 points
Within the margin of error
45%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
9.2%2015-2019
5.1%2020-2024
−4 points
Within the margin of error
82%
“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, Oak Hill, Ohio itself moved +0.8 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
722 households (±163)
Oak Hill, Ohio
Ohio share
Under $25k26%†191
Under $25k
26%±9.6 points
191 households±82 (90% margin of error)
16%in Ohio
15%in United States
−8.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k26%†188
$25k–50k
26%±7.5 points
188 households±69 (90% margin of error)
19%in Ohio
17%in United States
−4.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k23%†169
$50k–75k
23%±10.4 points
169 households±84 (90% margin of error)
17%in Ohio
16%in United States
+7.9 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k9.4%†68
$75k–100k
9.4%±5.3 points
68 households±41 (90% margin of error)
13%in Ohio
13%in United States
−2.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k12%†85
$100k–150k
12%±6.8 points
85 households±53 (90% margin of error)
17%in Ohio
18%in United States
+5.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k1.1%†8
$150k–200k
1.1%±1.4 points
8 households±10 (90% margin of error)
8.3%in Ohio
9.6%in United States
−0.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more1.8%†13
$200k or more
1.8%±1.9 points
13 households±14 (90% margin of error)
9.1%in Ohio
13%in United States
+1.4 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 Jackson County, the county holding most of Oak Hill's residents.
Jackson County has 596 employer establishments, 183 for every 10,000 residents (0.74× the US rate of 248; 0.85× Ohio's), with 8,677 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,914. The Census Bureau also counts 1,887 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
596
1,887 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
183
US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees
8,677
Average annual pay
$39,914
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Jackson 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: 32,646 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.
In FY2026, an estimated $63.47 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Oak Hill, Ohio: $0.04 per resident (US $1,994).
Obligations
$63.47
−20% vs FY2025
Per resident
$0.04
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.
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 Oak Hill, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.
