Village · Mercer County, Ohio

St. Henry, Ohio

St. Henry is a village in Mercer County, Ohio, part of the Celina, OH metro area. It has 2,741 residents. St. Henry, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 88 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,908 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #15 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), unemployment rate (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on job growth (low), preventable hospital stays (high) and distance to an emergency room (high).

88Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,908 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #15 of 684 in OH
Population: 2,741 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,585.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 3969540

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.

Safety83#2,607/15,637
Economy86#2,112/15,631
Housing94#898/14,977
Health72#4,386/15,609
Healthcare40#9,426/15,650
Environment46#8,342/15,453
Education89#1,698/15,649
Infrastructure94#952/15,650
Community78#3,482/15,651
Leisure & amenities45#8,682/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Violent crime rate · low13 /100k
100/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMercer County value
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Ohio 4.7%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Property crime rate · low281 /100k
97/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMercer County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.9%
97/100Ohio 8.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Rent-burdened households · low17.6%
96/100Ohio 45.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Reading scores · high3.41
95/100Ohio 3.06United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value

Weaknesses

Job growth · low-2.4%
10/100Ohio -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMercer County value
Preventable hospital stays · high3,914 /100k
10/100Ohio 3,269 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value
Distance to an emergency room · high11.9 mi
12/100Ohio 5.1 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMercer County value
New business applications · low8.9 /1k
14/100Ohio 14.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauMercer County value
Comfortable days · low23.6%
16/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMercer County value
Mental health providers · low117 /100k
18/100Ohio 371 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,508 (2015-2019) → 2,741 (2020-2024)
+9.3%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.8% (2015-2019) → 96.9% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$76,369 (2015-2019) → $115,653 (2020-2024)
+51%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
25.6% (2015-2019) → 35.7% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
New homes permittedWorsening
2.6 /1k (2021) → 1.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−43%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
5.6% (2015-2019) → 0.9% (2020-2024)
−4.7 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, St. Henry, Ohio improved on 3 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 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.

Improved3

Bachelor's++10 points25.6% → 35.7%
Household income+51%$76,369 → $115,653
Broadband+12 points84.8% → 96.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of St. Henry, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	16.1 min2015-2019	16.9 min2020-2024	+0.8 min	Within the margin of error	38%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.6%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	90%
Broadband subscriptions	84.8%2015-2019	96.9%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	69%
Effective property tax rate	1.22%2015-2019	1.05%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	51%
High school diploma or higher	93.1%2015-2019	95.8%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	89%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4552015-2019	0.3582020-2024	−0.097	Within the margin of error	95%
Median household income	$76,3692015-2019	$115,6532020-2024	+51%	Improved	86%
Rent as share of income	14.9%2015-2019	19.0%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%

“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 St. Henry, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of St. Henry, 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, St. Henry, Ohio itself moved +15.4 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

2,741 residents (±279)

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

889 households (±96)

St. Henry, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k5.4%†48
$25k–50k10%†91
$50k–75k7.9%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

889 households (±96)

St. Henry, Ohio
Ohio share

Own87%773
Rent13%†116

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

1,414 workers (±174)

St. Henry, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone87%1,232
Carpool8.4%†119
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 Celina, 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 Mercer County, the county holding most of St. Henry's residents.

Mercer County has 1,050 employer establishments, 248 for every 10,000 residents (1.00× the US rate of 248; 1.15× Ohio's), with 17,679 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,686. The Census Bureau also counts 3,106 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,050; 3,106 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 248; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 17,679
Average annual pay: $47,686; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	83	19.6	1.27×More than typical	682	$60,235	249
Restaurants and other eating places	81	19.1	1.04×About typical	1,227	$15,047	13
Truck transportation	64	15.1	2.99×More than typical	2,985	$49,366	129
Ambulatory health care services	59	13.9	0.67×Fewer than typical	675	$67,905	101
Automotive repair and maintenance	42	9.9	1.97×More than typical	204	$42,235	68
Full-service restaurants	36	8.5	1.11×About typical	544	$13,704	5
Limited-service restaurants	35	8.3	1.03×About typical	601	$16,060	—
Building equipment contractors	34	8	1.33×More than typical	340	$60,353	34
Construction of buildings	34	8	1.06×About typical	452	$53,142	116
Religious organizations	34	8	1.45×More than typical	247	$16,603	—
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	24	5.7	3.55×More than typical	359	$57,808	18
Banks and credit unions	23	5.4	1.68×More than typical	205	$60,112	—

Rank places for an industry Open Mercer County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 42,360 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 St. Henry, Ohio: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

1.8KFY2025

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 St. Henry, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

St. Henry, Ohio's figures are part of those of Mercer County, OH ($2.7M 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: St. Henry is mostly in Mercer County.

See federal money in Mercer 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.

St. Henry, 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.

Mercer County88100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Celina, OH79

Other cities and towns in Mercer 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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