Scores by category

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

Safety70#282/924
Economy12#816/925
Housing67#305/925
Health10#832/925
Healthcare47#487/923
Environment48#478/917
Education25#697/925
Infrastructure9#845/925
Community16#776/925
Leisure & amenities13#808/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Strengths

Property crime rate · low495 /100k
93/100Ohio 1,429 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationAggregated from counties
Mental health providers · high526 /100k
89/100Ohio 371 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Drought exposure · low5%
88/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAAggregated from counties
Social associations · high14.8 /10k
86/100Ohio 10.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Rent-burdened households · low40.6%
84/100Ohio 45.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Rent as share of income · low26.5%
79/100Ohio 28.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Drug overdose deaths · high51.7 /100k
2/100Ohio 18.9 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAggregated from counties
Injury deaths · high150 /100k
3/100Ohio 104 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Restaurants and bars · low4.5 /10k
3/100Ohio 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAggregated from counties
Broadband subscriptions · low78.9%
3/100Ohio 90.1%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Adult smoking · high21.4%
3/100Ohio 17.6%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Frequent mental distress · high21.3%
4/100Ohio 19.5%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties

Trends

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

Gyms and fitness centersImproving
0.3 /10k (2020) → 1.0 /10k (2025)
+202%5 yearsUS 1.2 /10k → 1.3 /10k
Violent crime rateWorsening
101 /100k (2020) → 182 /100k (2025)
+79%5 yearsUS 389 /100k → 328 /100k
New business applicationsImproving
4.9 /1k (2020) → 8.5 /1k (2025)
+75%5 yearsUS 13.1 /1k → 16.6 /1k
Property crime rateImproving
1,871 /100k (2020) → 495 /100k (2025)
−74%5 yearsUS 1,929 /100k → 1,535 /100k
New homes permittedWorsening
0.5 /1k (2021) → 0.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−57%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.2% (2015-2019) → 78.9% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area improved on 14 of 22 measures with a comparison and declined on 5. 0 moved within the margin of error and 3 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among metro and micro areas: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2020 with 2025); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved14

Gyms+202%0.3 /10k → 1.0 /10k
Commute−3.7 min29.1 min → 25.4 min
Property crime−74%1,871 /100k → 495 /100k
Rent burden−4.8 points45.3% → 40.6%
Suicides−18%17.5 /100k → 14.3 /100k

Declined5

Violent crime+79%101 /100k → 182 /100k
Grocery stores−20%1.7 /10k → 1.4 /10k
Restaurants−13%5.1 /10k → 4.5 /10k
Pharmacies−20%1.7 /10k → 1.4 /10k
Traffic deaths+16%16.0 /100k → 18.6 /100k

All 22 measures

Change of every measure of Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	2.1 /10k2020	2.1 /10k2025	+0.5%	Little change	30%
Average commute time	29.1 min2015-2019	25.4 min2020-2024	−3.7 min	Improved	99%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.9%2015-2019	20.5%2020-2024	+4.6 points	Improved	86%
Broadband subscriptions	68.2%2015-2019	78.9%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	67%
Distance to an airport	87 mi2020	87 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	99.2 /100k2020	51.7 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−48%	Improved	79%
Firearm deaths	15.5 /100k2020	11.5 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−26%	Improved	89%
Grocery stores	1.7 /10k2020	1.4 /10k2025	−20%	Declined	11%
Gyms and fitness centers	0.3 /10k2020	1.0 /10k2025	+202%	Improved	99%
High school diploma or higher	84.0%2015-2019	87.1%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Improved	83%
Homicide rate	7.3 /100k2020	3.2 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−56%	Improved	83%
Income adjusted for local prices	$46,0272019	$60,4862024	+31%	Improved	49%
New business applications	4.9 /1k2020	8.5 /1k2025	+75%	Improved	83%
Pharmacies	1.7 /10k2020	1.4 /10k2025	−20%	Declined	21%
Property crime rate	1,871 /100k2020	495 /100k2025	−74%	Improved	99%
Public libraries	0.3 /10k2019	0.3 /10k2024	+3.1%	Little change	81%
Rent-burdened households	45.3%2015-2019	40.6%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Improved	88%
Restaurants and bars	5.1 /10k2020	4.5 /10k2025	−13%	Declined	8%
Suicide rate	17.5 /100k2020	14.3 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−18%	Improved	85%
Traffic deaths	16.0 /100k2015-2019	18.6 /100k2020-2024	+16%	Declined	32%
Unemployment rate	7.8%2020	5.5%2025	−2.3 points	Improved	30%
Violent crime rate	101 /100k2020	182 /100k2025	+79%	Declined	2%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 708 metro and micro areas that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master files; Public Libraries Survey; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 925 metro and micro areas 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.

Metro and micro areas like Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Gallipolis, OH micropolitan 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.

For comparison, Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area itself moved +6.5 points in standing on average over the same 22 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

29,068 residents

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79
60–69
50–59

Income

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

Household income

11,614 households (±264)

Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area
United States share

Under $25k22%2,576
$25k–50k22%2,587
$50k–75k18%2,122
$75k–100k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

11,614 households (±264)

Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area
United States share

Own75%8,672
Rent25%2,942

Table view

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

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

11,575 workers (±539)

Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area
United States share

Drive alone80%9,205
Carpool9.0%1,045
Public transit0.8%†88

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 no occupation wages for Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area.

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.

Gallipolis, OH has 572 employer establishments, 198 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248), with 9,393 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,240. The Census Bureau also counts 1,772 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 572; 1,772 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 198; US 248
Paid employees: 9,393
Average annual pay: $45,240; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	46	15.9	0.87×About typical	913	$17,622	7
Ambulatory health care services	39	13.5	0.65×Fewer than typical	1,103	$62,932	87
Specialty trade contractors	38	13.1	0.85×About typical	304	$54,539	177
Religious organizations	33	11.4	2.06×More than typical	101	$23,545	—
Limited-service restaurants	32	11.1	1.38×More than typical	535	$17,871	3
Gasoline stations	22	7.6	2.34×More than typical	245	$27,212	—
Other specialty trade contractors	16	5.5	2.20×More than typical	139	$44,835	56
Truck transportation	15	5.2	1.02×About typical	122	$49,984	69
Insurance agencies and brokerages	14	4.8	1.10×About typical	57	$50,930	26
Lessors of real estate	14	4.8	0.39×Fewer than typical	28	$25,036	111
Automotive repair and maintenance	13	4.5	0.89×About typical	71	$40,761	43
Banks and credit unions	13	4.5	1.39×More than typical	224	$65,107	—

Rank places for an industry

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 28,941 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.
A metro area's figures are the exact sums of its counties.
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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $128.5K on contracts performed in Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area: $4.42 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $128.5K; +121% vs FY2025
Per resident: $4.42; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$139.7K100%

Top recipients

TREE CARE SPECIALISTS OF SOUTHERN OHIO LLC$139.7K100%
AMERICAN SURGICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIR LLC-$11.3K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

407.9KFY2017
614.4KFY2018
187.4KFY2019
93KFY2020
648.6KFY2021
464.2KFY2022
350.4KFY2023
143.3K

Top industries (NAICS)

Other financial investment activities · 5239$139.7K100%

Largest awards

MARKED, INFESTED ASH TREES ARE TO BE CUT, BUCKED, AND TRANSPORTED FROM WISCONSIN TO MICHIGAN WHERE THEY WILL BE LOADED INTO A COLD CHAMBER. TREE HARVEST WILL NEED TO BEGIN NO LATER THAN JANUARY 2026, BUT COULD BEGIN EARLIER. THE WORK WILL NEED TO BE$139.7K
TREE CARE SPECIALISTS OF SOUTHERN OHIO LLC· Gallia County, OH· Facilities & utilities· Feb 20, 2026 – Feb 20, 2026· 12639526C0012
EO14042 INSTRUEMTNT SHARPENING$49.3K
AMERICAN SURGICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIR LLC· Gallia County, OH· Equipment maintenance· Nov 1, 2022 – Aug 25, 2026· 36C24523N0161

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.

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.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $228.1M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area: $7,848 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $228.1M; +9.3% vs FY2025
Per resident: $7,848; US $12,955
Loan face value: $9.9M; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 1.3%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$103.4M45%
81.089 · Fossil Energy Research and Development$33.1M15%

Counties in Gallipolis, 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.

Gallia CountyCentral county2929,072

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

GallipolisPrincipal city3,130

Largest cities and towns

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

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.

Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH33

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved14

Declined5

Metro and micro areas like Gallipolis, OH micropolitan area five years ago that improved

Who lives here

Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

Getting to work

How people get to work

Jobs and pay

Local businesses

Federal contract spending

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

Largest awards

Federal grants & assistance

Top programs

Counties in Gallipolis, OH

Principal cities

Largest cities and towns

Other metro and micro areas in Ohio

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Similar metro and micro areas

Data and sources

Improved14

Declined5

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

Largest awards

Top programs

What was bought

Top recipients (organizations)

Top agencies

By type

Assistance by fiscal year

County aggregates