Walnut Creek is a census-designated place in Holmes County, Ohio. It has 1,053 residents. Walnut Creek, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 41 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,165 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #409 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), preventable hospital stays (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), voter turnout (low) and mental health providers (low).
41Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#9,165 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio
#409 of 684 in OH
Population
1,053 (2020-2024)
Land area
2 mi²
Density
473.6 /mi²
FIPS code
3980612
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety90#1,594/15,637
Economy41#9,222/15,631
Housing94#875/14,977
Health38#9,683/15,609
Healthcare12#13,824/15,650
Environment58#6,517/15,453
Education51#7,621/15,649
Infrastructure27#11,429/15,650
Community19#12,742/15,651
Leisure & amenities17#12,928/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Walnut Creek, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Holmes 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Walnut Creek, Ohio five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Walnut Creek, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Walnut Creek is mostly in Holmes County.
Over about five years, Walnut Creek, Ohio improved on 1 of 6 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.
Improved1
Price / income−2.7×5.1× → 2.5×
Home price to income ratio
5.1× → 2.5×2015-2019 → 2020-2024
−2.7×Beyond the margin of error (±2.4×)
Standing among cities and towns: 10 → 80 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 99% of cities and towns
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 6 measures
Change of every measure of Walnut Creek, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions
55.6%2015-2019
76.9%2020-2024
+21 points
Within the margin of error
92%
High school diploma or higher
64.8%2015-2019
66.2%2020-2024
+1.4 points
Within the margin of error
52%
Home price to income ratio
5.1×2015-2019
2.5×2020-2024
−2.7×
Improved
100%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4192015-2019
0.3222020-2024
−0.097
Within the margin of error
95%
Median household income
$59,8712015-2019
$80,7242020-2024
+35%
Within the margin of error
65%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
33.7%2015-2019
71.5%2020-2024
+38 points
Within the margin of error
0%
“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.
No place that looked like Walnut Creek, Ohio five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.
For comparison, Walnut Creek, Ohio itself moved +23.8 points in standing on average over the same 5 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.
Household income
225 households (±104)
Walnut Creek, Ohio
Ohio share
Under $25k7.1%†16
Under $25k
7.1%±12.0 points
16 households±28 (90% margin of error)
16%in Ohio
15%in United States
−8.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k14%†31
$25k–50k
14%±11.7 points
31 households±30 (90% margin of error)
19%in Ohio
17%in United States
−8.9 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k22%†50
$50k–75k
22%±19.9 points
50 households±50 (90% margin of error)
17%in Ohio
16%in United States
−2.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k13%†29
$75k–100k
13%±11.4 points
29 households±29 (90% margin of error)
13%in Ohio
13%in United States
0.0 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k32%†73
$100k–150k
32%±37.1 points
73 households±90 (90% margin of error)
17%in Ohio
18%in United States
+14.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k3.1%†7
$150k–200k
3.1%±5.1 points
7 households±12 (90% margin of error)
8.3%in Ohio
9.6%in United States
−1.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more8.4%†19
$200k or more
8.4%±8.0 points
19 households±20 (90% margin of error)
9.1%in Ohio
13%in United States
+6.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
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.
Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.
Walnut Creek, Ohio is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Holmes County, the county holding most of Walnut Creek's residents.
Holmes County has 1,413 employer establishments, 318 for every 10,000 residents (1.28× the US rate of 248; 1.47× Ohio's), with 19,733 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,774. The Census Bureau also counts 6,431 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
1,413
6,431 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
318
US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees
19,733
Average annual pay
$49,774
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Holmes County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 44,407 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.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
