Village · Meigs County, Ohio

Pomeroy, Ohio

Pomeroy is a village in Meigs County, Ohio. It has 1,565 residents. Pomeroy, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 6 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,639 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #683 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), drought exposure (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on frequent mental distress (high), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and adult smoking (high).

6Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,639 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #683 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,565 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 476.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3964024

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety55#7,108/15,637
Economy6#14,641/15,631
Housing71#4,376/14,977
Health1#15,488/15,609
Healthcare8#14,406/15,650
Environment27#11,252/15,453
Education9#14,276/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,781/15,650
Community18#12,854/15,651
Leisure & amenities0#15,587/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Social associations · high16.1 /10k
94/100Ohio 10.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMeigs County value
Drought exposure · low1%
93/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAMeigs County value
Property crime rate · low444 /100k
92/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureMeigs County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.0×
91/100Ohio 3.0×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Public libraries · high1.9 /10k
90/100Ohio 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMeigs County value
Job growth · high1.5%
84/100Ohio -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMeigs County value

Weaknesses

Frequent mental distress · high24.1%
1/100Ohio 19.5%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.5 /10k
1/100Ohio 4.1 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMeigs County value
Adult smoking · high25.8%
2/100Ohio 17.6%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Average weekly wage · low$840
2/100Ohio $1,313United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMeigs County value
Poverty rate · high39.6%
2/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Restaurants and bars · low3.2 /10k
2/100Ohio 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMeigs County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,990 (2015-2019) → 1,565 (2020-2024)
−21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
70.6% (2015-2019) → 83.2% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateImproving
14.3% (2015-2019) → 2.8% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Average commute timeWorsening
23.1 min (2015-2019) → 28.6 min (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Poverty rateWorsening
34.8% (2015-2019) → 39.6% (2020-2024)
+4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
3.5% (2015-2019) → 7.2% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Pomeroy, 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+13 points70.6% → 83.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Pomeroy, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.1 min2015-2019	28.6 min2020-2024	+5.5 min	Within the margin of error	9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.6%2015-2019	8.9%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	70.6%2015-2019	83.2%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	71%
Child poverty rate	52.2%2015-2019	50.7%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Effective property tax rate	0.93%2015-2019	1.09%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	4%
High school diploma or higher	80.4%2015-2019	83.5%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	1.9×2020-2024	+0.0×	Within the margin of error	77%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4352015-2019	0.4742020-2024	+0.039	Within the margin of error	22%
Median household income	$32,8572015-2019	$33,3332020-2024	+1.4%	Within the margin of error	9%
Poverty rate	34.8%2015-2019	39.6%2020-2024	+4.7 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Rent as share of income	36.3%2015-2019	34.8%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Rent-burdened households	56.5%2015-2019	57.0%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.5%2015-2019	7.2%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	15%

“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 Pomeroy, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pomeroy, 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, Pomeroy, Ohio itself moved −6 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

1,565 residents (±307)

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

678 households (±121)

Pomeroy, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k41%†276
$25k–50k19%†130
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

678 households (±121)

Pomeroy, Ohio
Ohio share

Own60%405
Rent40%†273

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

635 workers (±162)

Pomeroy, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone89%564
Carpool7.2%†46
Public transit0.6%†4

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 Meigs County, the county holding most of Pomeroy's residents.

Meigs County has 300 employer establishments, 138 for every 10,000 residents (0.55× the US rate of 248; 0.64× Ohio's), with 2,364 paid employees at an average annual pay of $36,957. The Census Bureau also counts 1,196 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 300; 1,196 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 138; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 2,364
Average annual pay: $36,957; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	32	14.7	2.65×More than typical	80	$10,300	—
Restaurants and other eating places	20	9.2	0.50×Fewer than typical	352	$18,636	—
Specialty trade contractors	19	8.7	0.56×Fewer than typical	74	$38,135	118
Gasoline stations	17	7.8	2.41×More than typical	150	$20,513	—
Limited-service restaurants	16	7.3	0.92×About typical	280	$19,529	—
Ambulatory health care services	14	6.4	0.31×Fewer than typical	170	$67,176	61
Automotive repair and maintenance	14	6.4	1.28×More than typical	49	$34,531	32
Individual and family services	14	6.4	2.30×More than typical	163	$33,613	8
Construction of buildings	12	5.5	0.73×Fewer than typical	36	$27,861	61
General merchandise stores	10	4.6	2.60×More than typical	56	$21,732	11
Truck transportation	9	4.1	0.82×Too few to compare	23	$49,652	45
Other specialty trade contractors	8	3.7	1.46×Too few to compare	35	$39,571	46

Rank places for an industry Open Meigs County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 21,774 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 Pomeroy, 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

109.9FY2017
28.8KFY2018
22.2KFY2019
-3.3KFY2020

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

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

See federal money in Meigs 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.

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

House

David J. TaylorR-OH-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.0%

Senate

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County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Meigs County8100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Meigs 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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