Census-designated place · Butler County, Ohio

Wetherington, Ohio

Wetherington is a census-designated place in Butler County, Ohio, part of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area. It has 1,138 residents. Wetherington, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,990 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #212 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on unemployment rate (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (low) and median household income (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), median Air Quality Index (high) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high).

62High

Quality-of-life score: #5,990 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #212 of 684 in OH
Population: 1,138 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,256.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3984528

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Open in the map

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety60#6,316/15,637
Economy85#2,354/15,631
Housing68#4,723/14,977
Health60#6,266/15,609
Healthcare73#4,248/15,650
Environment9#14,014/15,453
Education69#4,810/15,649
Infrastructure82#2,892/15,650
Community27#11,474/15,651
Leisure & amenities30#10,970/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Ohio 4.7%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.0%
98/100Ohio 8.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Median household income · high$167,625
96/100Ohio $72,259United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Bachelor's degree or higher · high67.6%
94/100Ohio 31.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.2%
92/100Ohio 8.1%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Ohio 12.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationButler County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low22.0%
3/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationButler County value
Median Air Quality Index · high55
7/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyButler County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.1 µg/m³
8/100Ohio 8.5 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyButler County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,026 /100k
9/100Ohio 3,269 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteButler County value
Students per teacher · high18.6×
12/100Ohio 16.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsButler County value
High ozone days · high5 days
15/100Ohio 3 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyButler County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,399 (2015-2019) → 1,138 (2020-2024)
−19%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
63.6% (2015-2019) → 32.0% (2020-2024)
−32 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
49.0% (2015-2019) → 18.7% (2020-2024)
−30 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$112,917 (2015-2019) → $167,625 (2020-2024)
+48%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
4.8% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−4.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.516 (2015-2019) → 0.407 (2020-2024)
−21%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Wetherington, Ohio improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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

Inequality−0.1090.516 → 0.407

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Wetherington, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.2 min2015-2019	27.1 min2020-2024	+2.8 min	Within the margin of error	21%
Bachelor's degree or higher	69.6%2015-2019	67.6%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Broadband subscriptions	91.3%2015-2019	95.0%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Effective property tax rate	1.87%2015-2019	1.48%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	83%
High school diploma or higher	98.0%2015-2019	98.5%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Home price to income ratio	4.0×2015-2019	3.6×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	91%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5162015-2019	0.4072020-2024	−0.109	Improved	97%
Median household income	$112,9172015-2019	$167,6252020-2024	+48%	Within the margin of error	83%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Unemployment rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	49%

“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 Wetherington, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wetherington, 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, Wetherington, Ohio itself moved +6.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

1,138 residents (±207)

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

561 households (±94)

Wetherington, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k11%†60
$25k–50k5.7%†32
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

561 households (±94)

Wetherington, Ohio
Ohio share

Own96%536
Rent4.5%†25

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+9.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

491 workers (±129)

Wetherington, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone63%309
Carpool4.3%†21
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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

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 Butler County, the county holding most of Wetherington's residents.

Butler County has 7,537 employer establishments, 191 for every 10,000 residents (0.77× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Ohio's), with 148,073 paid employees at an average annual pay of $57,118. The Census Bureau also counts 28,991 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 7,537; 28,991 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 191; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 148,073
Average annual pay: $57,118; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	663	16.8	0.91×About typical	15,063	$19,849	114
Ambulatory health care services	566	14.3	0.69×Fewer than typical	5,988	$65,819	1,049
Specialty trade contractors	433	11	0.71×Fewer than typical	5,183	$73,671	2,276
Limited-service restaurants	340	8.6	1.07×About typical	7,375	$17,690	49
Lessors of real estate	283	7.2	0.58×Fewer than typical	1,235	$55,311	2,620
Services to buildings and dwellings	240	6.1	0.90×About typical	2,646	$45,464	1,722
Full-service restaurants	232	5.9	0.77×Fewer than typical	6,433	$23,018	45
Truck transportation	222	5.6	1.11×About typical	3,186	$64,046	1,524
Automotive repair and maintenance	201	5.1	1.01×About typical	1,254	$47,296	368
Religious organizations	193	4.9	0.88×About typical	1,239	$23,805	—
Building equipment contractors	162	4.1	0.68×Fewer than typical	2,116	$75,230	369
Offices of other health practitioners	155	3.9	0.65×Fewer than typical	940	$48,553	436

Rank places for an industry Open Butler County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 394,636 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 $2.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Wetherington, Ohio: $2,568 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2.9M; −12% vs FY2025
Per resident: $2,568; US $1,994
Sole-source: 91%; US 30%
Single offer: 3.1%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$1.8M62%
Department of the Navy$615.9K21%
Department of the Army$326.9K11%
Department of the Air Force$83.1K2.8%
Office of Procurement Operations$31.4K1.1%
Departmental Offices$19.7K0.7%
United States Mint$12.7K0.4%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$2,2610.1%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

6.5MFY2017
14.2MFY2018
13.4MFY2019
10.8MFY2020
9.9MFY2021
10.9MFY2022
8MFY2023
3.5M

Top industries (NAICS)

Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$1.8M61%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$473.2K16%
Communications equipment manufacturing · 3342$315.1K11%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$120.2K4.1%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$83.1K2.8%
Audio and video equipment manufacturing · 3343

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

Wetherington, Ohio's figures are part of those of Butler County, OH ($153.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.9% of that total.

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

See federal money in Butler 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.

Wetherington, 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.

Butler County55100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN69

Other cities and towns in Butler 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

JSON · /api/v1/places/3984528

Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends