Village · Williams County, Ohio

Pioneer, Ohio

Pioneer is a village in Williams County, Ohio. It has 1,024 residents. Pioneer, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,601 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #515 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on homicide rate (low), social associations (high) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on arts, entertainment and recreation (low), new business applications (low) and median household income (low).

32Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,601 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #515 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,024 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 502.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 3962834

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety80#3,112/15,637
Economy12#13,685/15,631
Housing81#2,859/14,977
Health35#10,222/15,609
Healthcare29#11,134/15,650
Environment33#10,350/15,453
Education49#7,939/15,649
Infrastructure34#10,366/15,650
Community32#10,655/15,651
Leisure & amenities9#14,186/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Ohio 5.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWilliams County value
Social associations · high15.9 /10k
93/100Ohio 10.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWilliams County value
Public libraries · high1.9 /10k
90/100Ohio 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesWilliams County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low116 min
89/100Ohio 161 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWilliams County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low7 mi
88/100Ohio 37 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauWilliams County value
Drug overdose deaths · low8.4 /100k
87/100Ohio 18.9 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataWilliams County value

Weaknesses

Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.4 /10k
5/100Ohio 4.1 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWilliams County value
New business applications · low7.9 /1k
6/100Ohio 14.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauWilliams County value
Median household income · low$44,671
10/100Ohio $72,259United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.3 /10k
10/100Ohio 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWilliams County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Ohio 12.1United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWilliams County value
Broadband subscriptions · low77.7%
12/100Ohio 90.1%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,623 (2015-2019) → 1,024 (2020-2024)
−37%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+82%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
10.7% (2015-2019) → 21.8% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
13.4% (2015-2019) → 21.8% (2020-2024)
+8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
32.2% (2015-2019) → 36.7% (2020-2024)
+4.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.351 (2015-2019) → 0.427 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Pioneer, Ohio improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Price / income+1.5×1.9× → 3.4×
Inequality+0.0760.351 → 0.427

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Pioneer, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	17.9 min2015-2019	17.3 min2020-2024	−0.6 min	Within the margin of error	55%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.5%2015-2019	16.1%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Broadband subscriptions	80.2%2015-2019	77.7%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Effective property tax rate	1.23%2015-2019	1.14%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
High school diploma or higher	86.4%2015-2019	90.2%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	74%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	9%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3512015-2019	0.4272020-2024	+0.076	Declined	9%
Median household income	$50,0002015-2019	$44,6712020-2024	−11%	Within the margin of error	3%
Poverty rate	10.7%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	23.7%2015-2019	27.9%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Rent-burdened households	32.2%2015-2019	36.7%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%

“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 Pioneer, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pioneer, 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, Pioneer, Ohio itself moved −18.9 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

1,024 residents (±230)

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

525 households (±100)

Pioneer, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k22%†117
$25k–50k30%†156
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

525 households (±100)

Pioneer, Ohio
Ohio share

Own56%293
Rent44%†232

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

426 workers (±115)

Pioneer, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone83%355
Carpool8.0%†34
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 Williams County, the county holding most of Pioneer's residents.

Williams County has 802 employer establishments, 219 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 1.01× Ohio's), with 16,283 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,739. The Census Bureau also counts 2,427 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 802; 2,427 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 219; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 16,283
Average annual pay: $48,739; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	57	15.6	0.85×About typical	906	$15,715	6
Specialty trade contractors	47	12.8	0.83×About typical	296	$80,395	202
Religious organizations	45	12.3	2.21×More than typical	175	$21,223	—
Ambulatory health care services	42	11.5	0.55×Fewer than typical	446	$82,946	79
Truck transportation	34	9.3	1.84×More than typical	254	$50,130	119
Limited-service restaurants	29	7.9	0.99×About typical	554	$15,996	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	27	7.4	1.46×More than typical	116	$38,716	47
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	26	7.1	4.44×More than typical	1,050	$55,197	17
Full-service restaurants	20	5.5	0.71×Fewer than typical	244	$16,918	—
Gasoline stations	19	5.2	1.60×More than typical	333	$22,727	—
Banks and credit unions	18	4.9	1.52×More than typical	124	$48,024	—
Construction of buildings	18	4.9	0.65×Fewer than typical	74	$63,541	112

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 36,626 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Williams 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.

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

House

Marcy KapturD-OH-9 · 100% of residentsWith party 89%Missed 3.4%

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.

Williams County48100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Williams 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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