Village · Darke County, Ohio

Union City, Ohio

Union City is a village in Darke County, Ohio, part of the Greenville, OH metro area. It has 1,519 residents. Union City, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 26 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,549 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #581 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), social associations (high) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), poverty rate (high) and median household income (low).

26Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,549 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #581 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,519 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,726.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3978624

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.

Safety67#5,199/15,637
Economy1#15,456/15,631
Housing98#350/14,977
Health18#12,812/15,609
Healthcare25#11,738/15,650
Environment35#9,968/15,453
Education28#11,292/15,649
Infrastructure20#12,512/15,650
Community44#8,717/15,651
Leisure & amenities25#11,700/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Union City, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Darke 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 · low48 /100k
98/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2023Federal Bureau of InvestigationDarke County value
Social associations · high14.8 /10k
90/100Ohio 10.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDarke County value
Rent-burdened households · low38.3%
90/100Ohio 45.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Rent as share of income · low24.1%
89/100Ohio 28.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Home price to income ratio · low2.3×
86/100Ohio 3.0×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Property crime rate · low602 /100k
83/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2023Federal Bureau of InvestigationDarke County value

Weaknesses

Bachelor's degree or higher · low4.3%
1/100Ohio 31.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Poverty rate · high38.3%
1/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Median household income · low$32,067
2/100Ohio $72,259United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Unemployment rate · high13.7%
4/100Ohio 4.7%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Frequent mental distress · high21.7%
7/100Ohio 19.5%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult smoking · high21.8%
7/100Ohio 17.6%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,701 (2015-2019) → 1,519 (2020-2024)
−11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.4% (2015-2019) → 86.6% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
50.1% (2015-2019) → 58.5% (2020-2024)
+8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
32.7% (2015-2019) → 38.3% (2020-2024)
+5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
81.3% (2015-2019) → 75.7% (2020-2024)
−5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
43.8% (2015-2019) → 38.3% (2020-2024)
−5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Union City, 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+14 points72.4% → 86.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Union City, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.3 min2015-2019	23.9 min2020-2024	+0.6 min	Within the margin of error	41%
Broadband subscriptions	72.4%2015-2019	86.6%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	77%
Child poverty rate	50.1%2015-2019	58.5%2020-2024	+8.4 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Effective property tax rate	1.20%2015-2019	0.95%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	67%
High school diploma or higher	81.3%2015-2019	75.7%2020-2024	−5.5 points	Within the margin of error	5%
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)	0.4512015-2019	0.4732020-2024	+0.022	Within the margin of error	32%
Median household income	$31,0002015-2019	$32,0672020-2024	+3.4%	Within the margin of error	10%
Poverty rate	32.7%2015-2019	38.3%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent as share of income	27.9%2015-2019	24.1%2020-2024	−3.8 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Rent-burdened households	43.8%2015-2019	38.3%2020-2024	−5.5 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Unemployment rate	10.2%2015-2019	13.7%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.4%2015-2019	6.4%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	58%

“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 Union City, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Union City, 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, Union City, Ohio itself moved +2 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

1,519 residents (±203)

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

688 households (±108)

Union City, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k39%270
$25k–50k28%†192
$50k–75k13%†87

Homes

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

Owners and renters

688 households (±108)

Union City, Ohio
Ohio share

Own58%397
Rent42%291

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+13.4 points).

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

540 workers (±132)

Union City, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone66%359
Carpool20%†108
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 Greenville, 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 Darke County, the county holding most of Union City's residents.

Darke County has 1,117 employer establishments, 217 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 1.01× Ohio's), with 15,805 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,453. The Census Bureau also counts 3,831 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,117; 3,831 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 217; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 15,805
Average annual pay: $51,453; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	102	19.9	1.28×More than typical	518	$63,998	394
Truck transportation	68	13.2	2.62×More than typical	728	$64,168	176
Restaurants and other eating places	66	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	1,101	$17,935	13
Religious organizations	58	11.3	2.04×More than typical	271	$15,572	—
Ambulatory health care services	57	11.1	0.53×Fewer than typical	825	$56,291	122
Construction of buildings	49	9.5	1.26×More than typical	220	$68,959	152
Automotive repair and maintenance	37	7.2	1.43×More than typical	136	$41,515	84
Building equipment contractors	35	6.8	1.13×About typical	236	$67,051	77
Lessors of real estate	33	6.4	0.52×Fewer than typical	66	$32,742	442
Services to buildings and dwellings	30	5.8	0.87×About typical	306	$49,242	240
Limited-service restaurants	29	5.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	576	$17,142	8
Banks and credit unions	26	5.1	1.57×More than typical	316	$56,630	—

Rank places for an industry Open Darke County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 51,380 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 Union City, 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

290.6FY2020
0FY2025

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 Union City, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

Union City, Ohio's figures are part of those of Darke County, OH ($6.4M 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: Union City is mostly in Darke County.

See federal money in Darke 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.

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

House

Warren DavidsonR-OH-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 95%Missed 2.2%

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.

Darke County56100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Greenville, OH37

Other cities and towns in Darke 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
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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