Scores by category

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

Safety67#5,091/15,637
Economy7#14,578/15,631
Housing81#2,874/14,977
Health7#14,510/15,609
Healthcare8#14,473/15,650
Environment35#10,038/15,453
Education32#10,617/15,649
Infrastructure31#10,810/15,650
Community8#14,356/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,751/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Property crime rate · low167 /100k
99/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureAdams County value
Violent crime rate · low68 /100k
94/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureAdams County value
Drought exposure · low2%
92/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAAdams County value
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
85/100Ohio 0.7 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesAdams County value
Rent-burdened households · low40.2%
82/100Ohio 45.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Rent as share of income · low28.4%
77/100Ohio 28.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Preventable hospital stays · high4,826 /100k
2/100Ohio 3,269 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAdams County value
Dental care shortage · high19.0
3/100Ohio 4.5United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationAdams County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Ohio 4.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyAdams County value
Life expectancy · low70.6 yrs
4/100Ohio 75.7 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAdams County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.6 /10k
4/100Ohio 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAdams County value
Comfortable days · low22.1%
4/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationAdams County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,034 (2015-2019) → 1,282 (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
60.5% (2015-2019) → 40.2% (2020-2024)
−20 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
66.0% (2015-2019) → 83.0% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
41.9% (2015-2019) → 28.4% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
4.6% (2015-2019) → 14.4% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
34.6% (2015-2019) → 25.9% (2020-2024)
−8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Winchester, Ohio improved on 0 of 12 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Winchester, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.5 min2015-2019	37.2 min2020-2024	+7.7 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.1%2015-2019	14.9%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Broadband subscriptions	66.0%2015-2019	83.0%2020-2024	+17 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Child poverty rate	34.6%2015-2019	25.9%2020-2024	−8.7 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Effective property tax rate	1.06%2015-2019	0.95%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	38%
High school diploma or higher	85.9%2015-2019	89.5%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.2×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	37%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4552015-2019	0.4192020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	78%
Median household income	$43,4722015-2019	$40,6252020-2024	−6.5%	Within the margin of error	4%
Poverty rate	22.5%2015-2019	21.0%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	41.9%2015-2019	28.4%2020-2024	−14 points	Within the margin of error	96%

“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 Winchester, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Winchester, 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, Winchester, Ohio itself moved +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

1,282 residents (±426)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 40–49 women (−8.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,282 residents (±426)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

White99%†1,264
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino0.6%†8

Education

827 residents (±254)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

No high school diploma11%†87
High school or GED54%†444
Some college11%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

519 households (±135)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k35%†181
$25k–50k28%†144
$50k–75k17%†90
$75k–100k12%†61
$100k–150k6.0%†31
$150k–200k2.3%†12
$200k or more0.0%0

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

519 households (±135)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Own56%†292
Rent44%†227

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

183 households (±94)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $75077%†141
$750–1,00011%†21
$1,000–1,50011%†21

Home values

292 homes (±102)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $150k63%†185
$150k–250k30%†88
$250k–400k1.0%†3

Age of homes

560 homes (±134)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

2010 or later6.3%†35
2000–200913%†72
1980–199920%†114

Size of homes

560 homes (±134)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Studio1.1%†6
1 bedroom15%†86
2 bedrooms21%†118

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

434 workers (±154)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone82%†355
Carpool11%†46
Public transit0.0%0
Walk3.5%†15
Bike0.0%0
Work from home4.1%†18
Other0.0%0

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

416 workers (±149)

Winchester, Ohio
Ohio share

Under 15 min16%†68
15–29 min16%†68
30–44 min28%†116

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Adams County, the county holding most of Winchester's residents.

Adams County has 421 employer establishments, 153 for every 10,000 residents (0.62× the US rate of 248; 0.71× Ohio's), with 4,914 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,101. The Census Bureau also counts 1,914 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 421; 1,914 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 153; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 4,914
Average annual pay: $44,101; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	36	13.1	0.85×About typical	261	$56,828	252
Restaurants and other eating places	32	11.6	0.63×Fewer than typical	631	$13,409	14
Ambulatory health care services	31	11.3	0.54×Fewer than typical	509	$43,051	65
Religious organizations	24	8.7	1.57×More than typical	44	$22,523	—
Limited-service restaurants	21	7.6	0.95×About typical	439	$13,323	7
Gasoline stations	17	6.2	1.91×More than typical	138	$20,094	—
Truck transportation	14	5.1	1.01×About typical	49	$83,776	100
General merchandise stores	12	4.4	2.47×More than typical	323	$28,889	8
Lessors of real estate	12	4.4	0.35×Fewer than typical	32	$43,625	119
Banks and credit unions	11	4	1.24×About typical	142	$50,887	—
Other specialty trade contractors	11	4	1.59×More than typical	81	$62,296	95
Building equipment contractors	10	3.6	0.60×Fewer than typical	38	$75,289	38

Rank places for an industry Open Adams County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 27,512 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 Winchester, 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

12.4KFY2017
235.3FY2018
27.7FY2019

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

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

See federal money in Adams 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.

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

House

David J. TaylorR-OH-2 · 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.

Adams County11100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Adams 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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