Metro area · Ohio

Canton-Massillon, OH metro area

Canton-Massillon, OH is a metropolitan area of 2 counties in Ohio, home to 400,246 residents. Canton-Massillon, OH metro area has a quality-of-life score of 51 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #455 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Ohio it ranks #19 of 41. It ranks best on drought exposure (low), new business applications (high) and traffic deaths (low). It ranks worst on median Air Quality Index (high), high ozone days (high) and unemployment rate (high).

51Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#455 of 925 metro and micro areas
Ohio
#19 of 41 in OH
Population
400,246 (2025)
Land area
970 mi²
Density
412.8 /mi²
CBSA code
15940

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Canton-Massillon, OH metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety43#525/924
  • Economy56#409/925
  • Housing84#146/925
  • Health31#634/925
  • Healthcare77#213/923
  • Environment18#748/917
  • Education61#359/925
  • Infrastructure53#438/925
  • Community41#544/925
  • Leisure & amenities39#566/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Canton-Massillon, OH metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Canton-Massillon, OH metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Canton-Massillon, OH metro area 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.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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 contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Canton-Massillon, OH

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Stark CountyCentral county56373,771
  2. Carroll CountyOutlying county3426,475

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. CantonPrincipal city69,755
  2. MassillonPrincipal city32,338

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Canton69,755
  2. Massillon32,338
  3. Alliance21,478
  4. North Canton17,727
  5. Louisville9,602
  6. Perry Heights8,756
  7. Uniontown7,920
  8. Canal Fulton5,337
  9. Reedurban4,900
  10. Hartville3,377
  11. Minerva3,196
  12. Richville3,145
  13. Greentown2,993
  14. Carrollton2,810
  15. Middlebranch2,361
  16. Brewster2,105
  17. Navarre2,047
  18. North Industry1,767
  19. Malvern1,502
  20. East Canton1,427
  21. Lake Mohawk1,409
  22. Magnolia1,061
  23. Waynesburg1,035
  24. East Sparta890

Other metro and micro areas in Ohio

Areas based in Ohio, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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