Village · Franklin County, Ohio

Urbancrest, Ohio

Urbancrest is a village in Franklin County, Ohio, part of the Columbus, OH metro area. It has 1,240 residents. Urbancrest, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 30 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,916 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #535 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), public transit commuters (high) and distance to an emergency room (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), child poverty rate (high) and poverty rate (high).

30Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,916 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #535 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,240 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,112.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 3979100

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety19#12,579/15,637
Economy9#14,207/15,631
Housing83#2,531/14,977
Health20#12,494/15,609
Healthcare76#3,742/15,650
Environment12#13,568/15,453
Education10#14,141/15,649
Infrastructure71#4,485/15,650
Community29#11,102/15,651
Leisure & amenities66#5,303/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Distance to an airport · low9 mi
96/100Ohio 30 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauFranklin County value
Public transit commuters · high6.4%
95/100Ohio 1.0%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Distance to an emergency room · low2.9 mi
94/100Ohio 5.1 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFranklin County value
New business applications · high21.0 /1k
92/100Ohio 14.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauFranklin County value
Flu vaccinations · high54.0%
90/100Ohio 48.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFranklin County value
Drought exposure · low2%
90/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAFranklin County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high23.8%
0/100Ohio 4.7%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Child poverty rate · high53.4%
1/100Ohio 16.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Poverty rate · high41.5%
1/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Comfortable days · low21.8%
2/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFranklin County value
Loneliness · high42.4%
3/100Ohio 36.0%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Bachelor's degree or higher · low7.2%
4/100Ohio 31.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Trends

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

PopulationRising
981 (2015-2019) → 1,240 (2020-2024)
+26%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$16,765 (2015-2019) → $41,875 (2020-2024)
+150%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.3% (2015-2019) → 93.2% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
72.0% (2015-2019) → 53.4% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Unemployment rateWorsening
5.8% (2015-2019) → 23.8% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Average commute timeWorsening
18.9 min (2015-2019) → 31.4 min (2020-2024)
+66%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Urbancrest, Ohio improved on 4 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 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.

Improved4

Household income+150%$16,765 → $41,875
Price / income−2.5×5.7× → 3.2×
Broadband+25 points68.3% → 93.2%
Child poverty−19 points72.0% → 53.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Urbancrest, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	68.3%2015-2019	93.2%2020-2024	+25 points	Improved	95%
Child poverty rate	72.0%2015-2019	53.4%2020-2024	−19 points	Improved	92%
High school diploma or higher	74.7%2015-2019	71.9%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Home price to income ratio	5.7×2015-2019	3.2×2020-2024	−2.5×	Improved	100%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5372015-2019	0.4712020-2024	−0.067	Within the margin of error	89%
Median household income	$16,7652015-2019	$41,8752020-2024	+150%	Improved	100%
Poverty rate	50.9%2015-2019	41.5%2020-2024	−9.3 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Rent as share of income	35.1%2015-2019	26.1%2020-2024	−9 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Rent-burdened households	53.2%2015-2019	41.1%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	86%

“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 Urbancrest, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Urbancrest, 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, Urbancrest, Ohio itself moved +30.8 points in standing on average over the same 7 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

1,240 residents (±369)

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

395 households (±123)

Urbancrest, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k34%†133
$25k–50k32%†128
$50k–75k11%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

395 households (±123)

Urbancrest, Ohio
Ohio share

Own15%†61
Rent85%†334

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−9.1 points).

† 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

329 workers (±127)

Urbancrest, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone70%†230
Carpool9.4%†31
Public transit

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 Columbus, 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 Franklin County, the county holding most of Urbancrest's residents.

Franklin County has 30,700 employer establishments, 230 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 1.06× Ohio's), with 695,387 paid employees at an average annual pay of $63,716. The Census Bureau also counts 132,638 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 30,700; 132,638 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 230; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 695,387
Average annual pay: $63,716; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	2,979	22.3	1.07×About typical	58,941	$67,093	7,508
Restaurants and other eating places	2,518	18.8	1.03×About typical	55,394	$22,688	663
Lessors of real estate	1,771	13.2	1.08×About typical	12,044	$71,995	11,156
Limited-service restaurants	1,304	9.8	1.22×About typical	26,244	$19,724	297
Specialty trade contractors	1,244	9.3	0.60×Fewer than typical	21,091	$75,278	6,896
Full-service restaurants	936	7	0.91×About typical	25,093	$26,128	244
Offices of physicians	778	5.8	0.90×About typical	16,971	$115,735	1,075
Legal services	747	5.6	1.04×About typical	6,064	$96,726	1,177
Management, scientific and technical consulting	741	5.5	0.83×About typical	8,972	$96,966	4,913
Offices of other health practitioners	716	5.4	0.88×About typical	5,582	$55,354	2,330
Truck transportation	669	5	0.99×About typical	11,278	$61,780	8,689
Religious organizations	656	4.9	0.88×About typical	7,743	$28,643	—

Rank places for an industry Open Franklin County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,337,095 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: Urbancrest is mostly in Franklin County.

See federal money in Franklin 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.

Urbancrest, Ohio is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Franklin County55100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Columbus, OH70

Other cities and towns in Franklin 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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