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Life expectancy across Ohio

1,201 of 1,233 Ohio ZIP codes have a figure; the median one has 77.9 years.

Open this topic on the map Life expectancy by ZIP code

Life expectancy in Ohio varies more from one ZIP code to the next than Ohio varies from most other states, and the gap between the longest-lived and shortest-lived places can run well over a decade. The pattern tracks income, insurance coverage, smoking rates and access to care more closely than it tracks geography for its own sake, though it often clusters by neighborhood.

This lists both ends: the 25 Ohio ZIP codes or tracts with the longest average life expectancy at birth, and, separately, the 25 with the shortest, from the CDC's small-area life expectancy estimates. A single figure describes everyone born into a place on average, not any one resident's prospects.

Across the state

One dot per ZIP code, colored the way the map colors this topic; larger dots are more populous ZIP codes.

Under 73 years (77) 73 to 76 (215) 76 to 79 (484) 79 to 82 (339) 82 years or more (86) No data (32)

The 25 longest-lived ZIP codes

Longest first; every ZIP code links to its own page.

  1. 44687 · Walnut Creek Township and Walnut CreekHolmes County87.3 years
  2. 44690 · Paint Township and WinesburgHolmes County87.3 years
  3. 43330 · KirbyWyandot County85.8 years
  4. 43359 · WhartonWyandot County85.8 years
  5. 44080 · Parkman Township and ParkmanGeauga County85.7 years
  6. 44040 · Gates MillsCuyahoga County85.3 years
  7. 43323 · Pitt Township and HarpsterWyandot County85.2 years
  8. 44661 · NashvilleHolmes County85.2 years
  9. 44660 · Salt Creek Township and Mount HopeHolmes County85.0 years
  10. 43842 · Cass Township and TrinwayMuskingum County84.9 years
  11. 45876 · OttovillePutnam County84.8 years
  12. 44611 · Ripley Township and Big PrairieHolmes County84.7 years
  13. 44624 · Paint Township and DundeeHolmes County84.7 years
  14. 45111 · Symmes Township and Camp DennisonHamilton County84.4 years
  15. 45174 · Terrace ParkHamilton County84.4 years
  16. 43111 · Ward Township and Carbon HillHocking County84.2 years
  17. 43144 · Murray CityHocking County84.2 years
  18. 45303 · AnsoniaDarke County84.2 years
  19. 43136 · LithopolisFairfield County84.1 years
  20. 44610 · Berlin Township and BerlinHolmes County84.0 years
  21. 44638 · Washington Township and LakevilleHolmes County84.0 years
  22. 44809 · Hopewell Township and BascomSeneca County84.0 years
  23. 43555 · Ridgeville Township and Ridgeville CornersHenry County83.9 years
  24. 44815 · BettsvilleSeneca County83.9 years
  25. 45826 · ChickasawMercer County83.9 years

4 ZIP codes share the last value listed (83.9 years); the 3 shown come first by ZIP code.

The 25 shortest-lived ZIP codes

Shortest first; every ZIP code links to its own page.

  1. 44308 · AkronSummit County66.2 years
  2. 43222 · ColumbusFranklin County67.2 years
  3. 43223 · ColumbusFranklin County67.8 years
  4. 45033 · Whitewater Township and HoovenHamilton County67.9 years
  5. 43604 · ToledoLucas County68.1 years
  6. 45402 · DaytonMontgomery County68.3 years
  7. 44902 · MansfieldRichland County69.0 years
  8. 45232 · CincinnatiHamilton County69.6 years
  9. 45403 · DaytonMontgomery County69.7 years
  10. 45404 · DaytonMontgomery County69.8 years
  11. 43620 · ToledoLucas County70.3 years
  12. 45205 · CincinnatiHamilton County70.3 years
  13. 44503 · YoungstownMahoning County70.4 years
  14. 44504 · YoungstownMahoning County70.4 years
  15. 43608 · ToledoLucas County70.5 years
  16. 45405 · DaytonMontgomery County70.5 years
  17. 43211 · ColumbusFranklin County70.6 years
  18. 44506 · YoungstownMahoning County70.6 years
  19. 45214 · CincinnatiHamilton County70.6 years
  20. 44307 · AkronSummit County70.7 years
  21. 43204 · ColumbusFranklin County70.9 years
  22. 44704 · CantonStark County70.9 years
  23. 44485 · WarrenTrumbull County71.1 years
  24. 44507 · YoungstownMahoning County71.2 years
  25. 45204 · CincinnatiHamilton County71.2 years

3 ZIP codes share the last value listed (71.2 years); the 2 shown come first by ZIP code.

How this was measured

The CDC's small-area life expectancy project estimated life expectancy at birth for every census tract from deaths in 2010 to 2015 and the 2010 census; the map weights the 2010 tracts into each ZIP by its 2020 block population and the card shows the spread across the ZIP's tracts. It is the average number of years a newborn would live if the tract's death rates of that period held for life, so a poor inner-city ZIP and a wealthy suburb ten miles apart can differ by fifteen years. The estimates are a decade old and carry standard errors of one to two years in small tracts.

1,201 of 1,233 ZIP codes have a figure; ZIP codes without one are left off the list, not counted as zero. Ties are broken by ZIP code.

Every ZIP code's own page carries the full detail behind its figure, and the Life expectancy topic page ranks the whole state.

Sources

CDC/NCHS U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP, deaths 2010-2015, 2010 census tracts) weighted into ZIPs by 2020 block population.

CDC USALEEP

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Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "Life expectancy across Ohio", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/stories/life-expectancy/, built 2026-09-15, accessed [date].

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Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "Life expectancy across Ohio", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/stories/life-expectancy/, built 2026-09-15, accessed [date]; Life expectancy from CDC USALEEP.

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