Village · Paulding County, Ohio

Paulding, Ohio

Paulding is a village in Paulding County, Ohio. It has 3,230 residents. Paulding, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 34 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,348 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #497 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), public libraries (high) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), primary care physicians (low) and public EV charging ports (low).

34Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,348 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #497 of 684 in OH
Population: 3,230 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,347.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 3961252

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety85#2,272/15,637
Economy27#11,366/15,631
Housing91#1,387/14,977
Health30#11,000/15,609
Healthcare10#14,144/15,650
Environment12#13,546/15,453
Education65#5,510/15,649
Infrastructure50#7,764/15,650
Community30#10,894/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,571/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low74 min
100/100Ohio 161 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPaulding County value
Public libraries · high2.7 /10k
95/100Ohio 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPaulding County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataPaulding County value
Property crime rate · low399 /100k
93/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figurePaulding County value
Job growth · high2.6%
92/100Ohio -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataPaulding County value
Reading scores · high3.34
91/100Ohio 3.06United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePaulding County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.5 /10k
2/100Ohio 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPaulding County value
Primary care physicians · low16 /100k
3/100Ohio 77 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePaulding County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Ohio 4.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyPaulding County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Ohio 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPaulding County value
Dentists · low21 /100k
5/100Ohio 66 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePaulding County value
Restaurants and bars · low4.3 /10k
6/100Ohio 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPaulding County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
3,536 (2015-2019) → 3,230 (2020-2024)
−8.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.3% (2015-2019) → 92.9% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedImproving
0.8 /1k (2021) → 1.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+86%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
High school diploma or higherImproving
85.8% (2015-2019) → 91.4% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
11.4% (2015-2019) → 16.8% (2020-2024)
+5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$42,461 (2015-2019) → $53,750 (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Paulding, Ohio improved on 1 of 13 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.

Improved1

Broadband+22 points71.3% → 92.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Paulding, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.4 min2015-2019	19.7 min2020-2024	−0.8 min	Within the margin of error	57%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.9%2015-2019	13.6%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Broadband subscriptions	71.3%2015-2019	92.9%2020-2024	+22 points	Improved	92%
Child poverty rate	11.4%2015-2019	16.8%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	19%
High school diploma or higher	85.8%2015-2019	91.4%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	54%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3622015-2019	0.3732020-2024	+0.011	Within the margin of error	41%
Median household income	$42,4612015-2019	$53,7502020-2024	+27%	Within the margin of error	48%
Poverty rate	12.4%2015-2019	11.9%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	49%
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	29.0%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Rent-burdened households	41.2%2015-2019	44.0%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.5%2015-2019	10.0%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	64%

“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 Paulding, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Paulding, 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, Paulding, Ohio itself moved +1.5 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.

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

3,230 residents (±274)

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

1,407 households (±177)

Paulding, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k16%†229
$25k–50k32%†444
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,407 households (±177)

Paulding, Ohio
Ohio share

Own66%928
Rent34%479

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

1,493 workers (±229)

Paulding, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone87%1,294
Carpool8.6%†129
Public transit0.0%0

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 Paulding County, the county holding most of Paulding's residents.

Paulding County has 309 employer establishments, 165 for every 10,000 residents (0.67× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Ohio's), with 4,033 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,817. The Census Bureau also counts 1,155 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 309; 1,155 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 165; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 4,033
Average annual pay: $42,817; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	23	12.3	2.43×More than typical	253	$68,889	62
Restaurants and other eating places	21	11.2	0.61×Fewer than typical	173	$15,595	—
Religious organizations	20	10.7	1.93×More than typical	84	$14,833	—
Specialty trade contractors	18	9.6	0.62×Fewer than typical	85	$62,365	119
Ambulatory health care services	15	8	0.38×Fewer than typical	78	$42,577	41
Gasoline stations	12	6.4	1.98×More than typical	127	$19,441	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	4.8	0.96×Too few to compare	41	$35,390	26
Insurance agencies and brokerages	9	4.8	1.10×Too few to compare	34	$60,500	10
Limited-service restaurants	9	4.8	0.60×Too few to compare	111	$14,964	—
Banks and credit unions	8	4.3	1.32×Too few to compare	52	$47,442	—
Building equipment contractors	8	4.3	0.71×Too few to compare	31	$61,452	18
Full-service restaurants	7	3.7	0.49×Too few to compare	44	$20,477	—

Rank places for an industry Open Paulding County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 18,703 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Paulding, Ohio: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

211.4FY2022
-152.1FY2023

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Paulding 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.

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

House

Robert E. LattaR-OH-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.0%

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.

Paulding County43100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Paulding 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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