ZIP code 43402: Bowling Green

Drinking-water compliance

A health-based violation is a contaminant above its limit or a treatment rule not followed; monitoring, reporting and public-notice violations are paperwork. Lead is the 90th-percentile result across sampled homes, not a reading at any one tap.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026), violations and lead and copper sampling for the system that serves most of this ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO

Byproducts and contaminants

TTHM

37.6 µg/L yearly mean in 2019, the last year in the file (limit 80); worst yearly mean 50.3, highest single sample 82.8; 132 samples from 2012 to 2019

HAA5

12.6 µg/L yearly mean in the last year sampled (limit 60); worst yearly mean 21.2, highest sample 35.9; 128 samples

Nitrate

highest of 174 samples was 8.68 mg/L as nitrogen (2013; limit 10); 4.12 in 2019, the last year sampled. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants

Arsenic

not detected in 8 samples (limit 10)

Solvents and fuels

benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride not detected in 8 samples

Bacteria

2 of 4,992 routine tap samples (0.04%) tested positive for total coliform in 2012 to 2019, 0 of 626 in 2019; E. coli never found in the 1 tap sample tested for it. Coliform itself is a warning sign; E. coli means sewage or manure reached the water

Farm chemicals

atrazine in 1 of 25 samples, highest 0.82 µg/L (limit 3); not detected: alachlor in 25 samples, 2,4-D in 3 samples

Metals

barium in 8 of 8 samples, highest 16 µg/L (limit 2,000); chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, thallium not detected in 8 samples

EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results. Byproducts are judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site, so one high sample is not a violation. Nitrate and arsenic are measured where water enters the pipes.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019 (TTHM, HAA5 and coliform from distribution-system samples of Bowling Green City; nitrate, arsenic, radionuclides, solvents, herbicides and metals from the entry points of the same system); non-detects counted as zero

PFAS

UCMR 5

4 samples in 2023 to 2024 at the entry point to the distribution system: PFPeA 9.6, PFHxA 6.9, PFBA 6.7 ng/L

Ohio EPA 2020

1 plant tested (latest 2020-09): nothing detected for the six PFAS tested

Ohio EPA latest

1 plant sampled by Ohio EPA, most recently 2024-03 (Ohio EPA statewide sampling status map)

Firefighting foam: 6 fire departments or other holders in Wood County registered 280 gallons of PFAS-based AFFF foam with Ohio EPA, 130 gallons in opened containers; the state is collecting it for disposal so it is never sprayed again.

Lithium: not detected in 4 UCMR 5 samples at Bowling Green City (the method reports from 9 µg/L). Lithium is unregulated; EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.

PFAS are the forever chemicals from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. One sample above 4 ng/L is not a violation; compliance is judged on running annual averages, and systems are adding carbon filters ahead of the 2029 deadline. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 and its current status map, for the system that serves most of this ZIP; EPA SDWIS record OH8700311; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS

Lead at the tap

Latest period

0 ppb in the sampling period ending 2025-12

Record

10 sampling periods since 2016, none above 10 ppb

Service lines

7,200 inventoried: 0 lead, 69 galvanized needing replacement, 0 unknown, 7,131 not lead (reported all required service line types)

Children: the Ohio Department of Health lists this ZIP as high-risk for childhood lead exposure, mostly from old paint and soil, so every child living here should get a blood lead test at ages 1 and 2 (Medicaid covers it, and doctors are required to order it).

Housing age: 21% of the homes here were built before 1960 and 13% before 1940, when lead service lines, lead solder and lead paint were common; 50% predate 1980 (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder; the 90th-percentile figure means nine in ten sampled homes were at or below it. Lead comes from the service line and the house plumbing, not the source water, so a low system result does not clear an old house. The action level drops from 15 to 10 ppb in 2027, and every lead line must be replaced within ten years of that.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System lead and copper 90th-percentile results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2), for Bowling Green City (OH8700311), the system that serves most of this ZIP · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio

Fluoride and treatment

Treatment on file: aeration, corrosion control, cartridge filtration, coagulation and settling, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, granular activated carbon, lime softening, reverse osmosis, sand or media filtration, ultraviolet disinfection.

Measured fluoride: 1.06 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.86 to 1.13 mg/L across 8 samples in 2012 to 2019 (EPA compliance monitoring). Natural fluoride in Ohio well water runs from a trace to over 2 mg/L in parts of the northwest.

The health department counts 97.3% of Wood County residents on community water as receiving fluoridated water.

Ohio law (ORC 6109.20, 1969) makes systems serving 5,000 or more people fluoridate unless the water already carries 0.8 mg/L naturally or the community exempted itself by ordinance or referendum in the months after the law passed; smaller systems choose for themselves. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride, fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health; EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System treatment table for Bowling Green City (OH8700311); EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring, 2012 to 2019; Ohio Department of Health fluoridation report (DataOhio) for the county share · EPA SDWIS search

Algal toxins

Raw water

25 detections at the intake across 7 bloom seasons (2016 to 2026); highest since 2024 0.847 µg/L

Treated water

never detected after treatment

Monitoring

367 samples from 2016 to 2026, latest 2026-08-18

Raw-water readings show what the plant has to remove; any detection at the intake triggers weekly paired raw and treated-water testing until two clean weeks, and carbon, ozone or chlorine destroys the toxin in nearly every case. The ten-day advisory levels for treated water are 0.3 µg/L for children under six and 1.6 µg/L for everyone else. Since November 2022 the bloom season runs June through November (sampling continues into early December), with treated water tested every two weeks the rest of the year; the 2016 to 2022 rule monitored year-round and stepped testing up to three days a week when raw water passed 5 µg/L.

Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (HAB data and map, DrinkingWater/HAB service, fetched 2026-09-09), total microcystins by ELISA in raw and treated water, for the system that serves most of this ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems

Groundwater

Under the surface

glacial till (clay-rich, poor yields), part of the Lake Maumee Lacustrine Aquifer (lacustrine setting); wells there yield < 5 gallons a minute, deposits < 25 ft thick

Bedrock

Lockport Dolomite/sub-Lockport undifferentiated, yielding > 100 gpm to a well

Setting

Limestone; water table 5-15 ft down, 4-7 in/yr recharge, clay shrink-swell soil (hydrogeologic setting 7Fd); pesticide index 176

Well logs

1,469 drilled wells on file (46.7 per 1,000 residents), median 74 ft deep, 15 gallons a minute median test yield, water 12 ft down

Aquifers

93% of wells in bedrock, 7% in sand, gravel and other unconsolidated material; typical well drilled 1984, 402 since 2000; uses: Domestic 1,198, Monitor 90

Wellhead protection

3% of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA source water protection areas for 3 public water systems (Maurers Mobile Home Park, Pemberville Village PWS), 1% inside inner management zones, the ground a well draws from within a year; the largest, Maurers Mobile Home Park, is rated high susceptibility in a karst setting

Geology

44% of the ZIP is a sensitive geologic setting, where thin or sandy cover leaves the aquifer open to what soaks in from the surface; its population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under less than 20 ft of drift; nearest verified sinkhole 20.2 mi away (Ohio EPA and ODNR Geological Survey)

Injection wells

39 Class V injection wells on Ohio EPA's books inside this ZIP (37 active): 14 large septic, 24 cleanup injection, 1 vehicle waste; these put fluids underground above or into drinking water aquifers

Water table

HY-2 OH monitoring well (ODNR), 15.9 mi away: water 21.1 ft below ground on 2026-06-29; averaged 19 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 20.2 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 1.2 ft lower; range 16.8 to 21.8 ft over 4,144 readings since 2015

Nitrate risk

EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Upper Toussaint Creek subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 19% if it draws on groundwater and 40% if it draws on rivers or lakes, judged from land use, geology and past results (EnviroAtlas nitrate violation index; the typical Ohio subwatershed scores 23% for groundwater and 39% for surface water)

Quality monitoring

Ohio EPA's nearest ambient groundwater monitoring well is Pemberville Wellfield WTP 1 (Wood County), 10.5 mi away: 250 ft deep in limestone or dolomite (Lockport Dolomite aquifer); bedrock 25 ft down; wells there yield under 5 gallons a minute; sampled every 18 months. 4 active wells within 15 mi

Vulnerability rates how easily a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer, not whether anything has. Well logs include abandoned and replaced wells, so counts overstate wells in use; a private well owner is the only one who tests it.

Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey, Groundwater Vulnerability (DRASTIC) map (polygon at the ZIP's population-weighted center), karst feature inventory, and the Ohio water well log database (logs inside the ZIP boundary) · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data

Aquifer exposure

Karst

the population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under less than 20 ft of drift; no mapped sinkhole inside the ZIP; nearest verified sinkhole 20.2 mi from the center

Wellhead protection

3% of the ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA source water protection areas for 3 public water systems (Maurers Mobile Home Park, Pemberville Village PWS), 1% inside inner management zones, the ground a well draws from within a year; the largest, Maurers Mobile Home Park, is rated high susceptibility in a karst setting

River intakes

8% in the 1,000-foot stream corridor zone

Vulnerability index

DRASTIC 143 (ODNR; higher means a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer more easily)

Sensitive settings are outwash plains, buried valleys, karst and shallow bedrock, mapped statewide by Ohio EPA for siting decisions. Exposure is not contamination: it says how quickly a spill, a failing tank or heavy manure would reach the water table, not whether one has.

Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings and karst geology layers (geology/Geology), ODNR Geological Survey karst and spring points, Ohio EPA source water protection areas (DrinkingWater/SWAP); shares by ZIP boundary overlay, karst by a point query at the population-weighted center · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey

Sewage treatment

Size

10 million gallons a day design flow; a major facility; the system has combined sewer overflows

Compliance

9 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; currently in violation (not significant); 14 effluent limit exceedances in 3 years

Combined sewer overflows: 1 outfall inside this ZIP, 1 within 3 miles, permitted to Bowling Green. In heavy rain these release untreated sewage mixed with storm water.

Other discharge permits: 12 facilities inside this ZIP other than sewage plants hold a Clean Water Act permit (factories, water plants, quarries, package plants, storm water); 11 facility-quarters with a violation in the last three years.

Sewage sludge: 110 farm fields covering 5,466 acres inside this ZIP are permitted for spreading treated biosolids, mostly from Bowling Green Wwtp (2,819 acres), Toledo Bay View Park Wwtp (1,505 acres), Lucas Co Wrrf (512 acres); 1 more retired (Ohio EPA). Biosolids carry nutrients and, increasingly under scrutiny, PFAS.

Sludge source: 3 permitted biosolids generators are inside this ZIP; nearest Bowling Green WWTP, 2.3 mi away (a major plant); 5 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).

State water loans: 30 projects inside this ZIP have borrowed $59.7 million from Ohio EPA's revolving loan funds since 2015 (19 sewer, storm water and runoff projects for $35.3 million; 11 drinking water projects for $24.4 million), with $1.6 million of principal forgiven. Largest: WPCF Final Clarifier Improvements (Bowling Green, 2025, $11.5 million); latest: The Village Subdivision Pump Station (Bowling Green, 2026, $2.0 million). Below-market loans are how most Ohio treatment plants and water mains get rebuilt.

Stormwater: 11% of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, mostly the City of Bowling Green storm sewer system; the towns, townships and counties that own those storm sewers hold a stormwater permit and must control what runs off streets and parking lots (2020 to 2030 designation). 15 sites with an address in this ZIP hold their own industrial stormwater permits (Calphalon Corporation, Cooper Standard Automotive - Bowling Green Seal Plant, A-Gas US Inc and others) (EPA Facility Finder).

Plants inside this ZIP: Bowling Green (10 MGD, major, CSO); Haskins Wwtp (0.3 MGD); Tontogany Wwtp (0.1 MGD).

Where a home's sewage actually goes depends on the sewer district, and rural homes are on septic systems the county health department permits; the nearest plant is a proxy. Violations range from paperwork to raw discharges.

Source: EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Clean Water Act NPDES facilities with a POTW component in Ohio; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Compliance data lag about a quarter.; other Clean Water Act permit holders inside the ZIP from the same service · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder

Stream health

Uses failing

aquatic life 49% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 100%, fish consumption 46%, drinking-water source 12% (that use is assessed on only 12% of the ZIP)

Causes listed

bacteria (pathogens) (100%), nutrients (58%), sediment and silt (49%)

Cleanup plans

63% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget

Watersheds here: Tontogany Creek (not supporting); Upper Toussaint Creek (not supporting).

Fish advisories (Ohio EPA): North Branch Portage River (All waters (Wood County)): common carp one meal a month (PCBs); Maumee River (Defiance to Perrysburg): common carp one meal a month, flathead catfish one meal a month, freshwater drum one meal a month and 3 more species (PCBs, mercury). Steelhead trout from Lake Erie or any of its tributaries: one meal a month (PCBs). Statewide, every other fish is one meal a week because of mercury.

Nearest stream assessment (Ohio EPA): N. Br. Portage R. Se Of Bowling Green @ Linwood Rd. on the North Branch Portage River, 3.1 mi away, draining 34 square miles: partial attainment of its warmwater use; fish IBI 41 of 60 (2008); bug ICI 26 of 60 (2008); habitat QHEI 43 of 100. 14 assessed sites inside the ZIP, 0 within 3 miles, 32 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.

Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): 35.9 miles of designated streams cross this ZIP: 32.2 mi warmwater habitat, 3.8 mi limited resource water. Nearest specially protected stream: the Maumee River (Indiana state line (RM 108.1) to the U.S. route 25 bridge (RM 15.05)), 8 mi away, an Outstanding State Water for recreation; 4% of the ZIP lies within a mile of such a stream, where new discharges face the strictest antidegradation review. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.

PFAS in the river (Ohio EPA large river survey): at Maumee R. Near Otsego @ Confluence Of Sugar Creek, 8.1 mi away, the water carried 111.18 ng/L of total PFAS (PFOA 5.1, PFOS 7.5 ng/L); fish fillets held 21.94 ng/g in bluegill and 16.94 ng/g in catfish (PFOS 5.4 in bluegill). Drinking water limits are 4 ng/L for PFOA and PFOS; river water is not drinking water, but treatment plants that draw from it start from these numbers.

Farm chemicals (USGS estimate, 2018): farms in Wood County used about 304 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 489 kg per square mile, 20th of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: glyphosate 121 t, atrazine 52 t, metolachlor 31 t, acetochlor 21 t, 2,4-D 21 t. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains; this county used 52 t of it.

Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 1,151 farms work 250,260 acres of Wood County, with 59% of its land in cropland, 217 acres to a farm. 7,960 cattle, 10,712 hogs, 276 broilers, 170 turkeys; 73,685 acres of corn and 123,437 of soybeans. Sales $283 million, 28% from animals and animal products. Manure and fertilizer from farms like these carry the phosphorus and nitrogen behind Ohio's algae and nitrate problems; withheld figures protect individual farms.

A watershed unit fails when any sampled stream in it fails; ditches in flat farm country fail on habitat and nutrients, city creeks on bacteria and sediment. Ohio's own report is at epa.ohio.gov; the EPA link on each unit's report page has the sampling detail.

Source: EPA ATTAINS (Ohio EPA 2024 Integrated Report), watershed assessment units overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection; shares are of the ZIP's land area · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map

Watershed

• Cedar-Portage66% of residentsDrains to Lake Erie
• Lower Maumee34% of residentsDrains to Lake Erie

ZIP codes and subbasins do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

H2Ohio: nearest project Fox-Shank Living Laboratory, inland flow-through wetland, funded 2021, completed, 5.3 mi away: This project has restored natural habitat to a 16-acre site located in Wood County. Restoration of this site included over 11 acres of wetland and associated ha...; 0 within 5 miles, 9 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.

Source water: 26% of this ZIP drains to the river intake of Bowling Green City and sits inside its Ohio EPA source water protection area; 8% lies in the 1,000-foot stream corridor zone where spills and runoff matter most.

Watershed grants: 1 state or federal runoff project inside this ZIP (1 GLRI); nearest "Carter Historic Farm Wetland Restoration" by Black Swamp Conservancy (wetland restoration, GLRI), 3.9 mi away; 2 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA project lists: Section 319 and GLRI through fiscal 2023, SWIF through 2017).

Road salt: nearest went to Liberty Township Trustees (facility, 2024-2025), 5.7 mi away; 3 in Wood County. H2Ohio pays for brine makers, calibrated spreaders and covered salt barns so less chloride reaches streams and wells.

Watershed plan: the Upper Toussaint Creek subwatershed around this ZIP's center has an Ohio EPA-approved nine-element nonpoint source plan (2018), the blueprint that makes its farms, streambanks and communities eligible for federal Section 319 runoff grants.

Lake level: Lake Erie at Toledo, 23.5 mi from this ZIP's center, stood at 572.2 ft above sea level (IGLD 1985) in August 2026, 0.0 ft above the 1991 to 2020 average for that month; the last 12 months averaged 571.4 ft. The record monthly high was 574.7 ft in June 2019, when high water ate at bluffs and flooded marinas; the low since 1990 was 569.9 ft in October 2001 (NOAA).

The population center sits in the Upper Toussaint Creek subwatershed; its water runs on through Lower Toussaint Creek, then Lake Erie.

In 2015 Wood County drew about 11 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 5.2 million for public supply (5% from wells, 88,300 people served at 17 gallons a person a day at home), 0.3 million for irrigation, 2.2 million for mining; 41,400 residents drew their own well water.

EnviroAtlas, Upper Toussaint Creek: 500 to 1000 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program; 32,103 acres of grain crops; 186 miles of streams (2.5 per square mile); water use of 617 thousand gallons a day for homes and 70 thousand for farms; 34.4 inches of rain and snow a year; 11 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 0.1 kg per hectare a year as manure and 53.3 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 60% of the farmland sits on drained hydric soils; potentially restorable wetlands on farmland cover 66% of the subwatershed; 4.9% of the land is paved or roofed; 17% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).

Stream permits: 13% of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, where a project that fills, pipes or crosses a stream needs an individual Ohio EPA 401 water quality review; 14% drains toward high-quality waters farther down and might qualify for the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits after a field screening and 73% can use those nationwide permits outright (Ohio EPA 401 nationwide permit eligibility map).

Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (HUC-8 subbasins by resident share, HUC-12 subwatershed at the population center) · 2020 census blocks · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels

Homes and income

Household income

$52,426 median

Income spread

26% of households earn under $25,000 a year, 26% $100,000 or more and 5.3% $200,000 or more

Rent

$897 a month, median gross

Owner-occupied

44% of 14,182 occupied homes; 59% of owners carry a mortgage

Typical home built

1980

Value spread

9% of owner-occupied homes are worth under $100,000 and 7.5% $500,000 or more; income per person $35,295 a year

Moved in

the typical owner moved in in 2007, the typical renter in 2021

Median age

27.8 years

Commute

19 minutes each way on average, 6% of commuters travel 45 minutes or more, 9% work from home

Housing stock

48% single-family detached, 37% in buildings of 5 or more units, 3.4% mobile homes; 1.2% of homes are crowded (more than one person a room)

Vacancy

4.5% of 14,856 housing units are vacant: 2.4% for rent, 0.6% for sale, 1.2% other, such as homes held off the market, in probate or abandoned

Owner costs

19% of owners with a mortgage and 10% of owners without one spend 30% or more of income on housing

Evictions

2.22 eviction filings a year per 100 renter households in 2016 to 2018, 1.25 ending in a judgement (about 105 filings a year; Eviction Lab)

Fair market rent

$1,080 a month for a two-bedroom (one-bedroom $820, three-bedroom $1,390): HUD's fiscal 2026 small-area fair market rent, the benchmark for housing vouchers in the Toledo MSA area

Tax returns

14,280 returns for 2022 averaging $72,865 of adjusted gross income; 30% reported under $25,000 and 5% reported $200,000 or more; 10% claimed the earned income credit and 28% were filed by people 60 or older (IRS)

Subsidized housing

4 tax-credit (LIHTC) properties with 284 low-income units, newest placed in service 2008; 9 HUD-assisted multifamily properties with 408 assisted units (Section 8 and similar contracts). Housing vouchers used in private rentals are not counted

Banks

12 full-service bank branches from 11 banks inside this ZIP (FDIC); 2 credit union branches from 2 credit unions (NCUA)

Strain

54% of renters pay 30% or more of income in rent; 8.5% of households have no vehicle; the median renter spends 33.1% of income on rent; the median owner with a mortgage spends 18.5% of income on housing costs

Five-year survey averages centered on 2022; small ZIPs carry wide margins of error, and owner-estimated values run below sale prices in a rising market.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area; Eviction Lab (Princeton) tract estimates 2016 to 2018, weighted to the ZIP; HUD fiscal 2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP data, tax year 2022; Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond), HOLC maps 1935 to 1940; HUD eGIS open data for subsidized housing; FDIC BankFind branch locations; NCUA credit union branch list, March 2026 · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data

Houses and neighborhoods

Homes

8,465 one-family houses, 332 two-family houses, 76 three-family houses, 91 condominiums; also 583 apartment buildings and 162 other residential parcels

Lot

median 0.25 acres (condominiums left out)

The atlas has only the parcel list here so far: 8,964 homes with address, land-use class, lot size and, where the county's upload carries one, a link to each parcel's page at the county auditor, from OGRIP's Ohio Statewide Parcels (Wood County; upload of May 25, 2023). Year built, size, values and sales come from each county auditor's own appraisal records, which are being added county by county outward from Franklin County. The Wood County Auditor's site shows each parcel's full record.

Show neighborhoods and houses

The houses load when you search, pick a filter or press the button (the pack for this part of the state, a few megabytes). Zoomed in on the map, each house of this ZIP draws as a dot that follows the search and filters.

Source: OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels, Ohio Department of Administrative Services (Wood County, upload of May 25, 2023); residential parcels placed in ZIPs by the atlas; owner names are not carried · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats

Building permits

Mix

2,636 single-family houses, 628 units in buildings of five or more, 296 in duplexes and small buildings

Value

$773.1 million of construction at the value declared on the permits

By year

2016: 271, 2017: 276, 2018: 298, 2019: 317, 2020: 481, 2021: 542, 2022: 197, 2023: 529, 2024: 488, 2025: 161, 2026 through July: 59

Survey counts are permits issued, not houses finished, and cover new residential construction only: additions, remodels, garages and commercial buildings are not in the survey. Values are the applicants' estimates. Where a city runs the building department for its township neighbours, the city's figure covers them too.

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025 (new privately owned residential units authorized), for the permit-issuing jurisdiction where most of this ZIP's residents live · Census building permits

Home prices

Five years

+44% from 2020 to 2025

Last year

+5% in 2025

Since 2000

prices stand at 1.8 times their 2000 level

Series

tracked since 1977

Zillow's typical home value here is $271K (2026-07), up 3% over the year, up 23% over five years and up 57% over ten. Typical asking rent $1,041 a month (2026-07).

On the market (Realtor.com, August 2026): median asking price $342,450, $177 per square foot for a typical 1,975 sq ft listing; 24 active listings, 20 new this month; listings spend a median 44 days on the market; 7% of listings have cut their price. Realtor.com flags this ZIP's figures this month as low quality (24 active listings), so the asking price is not a market median.

The index follows the same houses through repeat sales and refinance appraisals on conforming mortgages, so it measures price change rather than the price level (the Homes card has the median value). Consumer prices rose about 36% from 2015 to 2025, so a gain under 36% is a loss in real terms.

Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted), latest release; Zillow Home Value Index (mid-tier, smoothed, seasonally adjusted) and Zillow Observed Rent Index by ZIP, Zillow Research · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data

Local taxes

Bowling Green City 88% of residents

28.0 effective mills (60.7 gross); $1,960 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 16.0, bonds 6.3, improvements 0.5, substitute 1.1, inside millage 4.0.

Otsego Local 7% of residents

23.2 effective mills (44.3 gross); $1,624 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 16.4, bonds 2.6, improvements 0.5, inside millage 3.7.

Municipal income tax

Bowling Green 2.15% (81% of residents); township residents outside a city or village pay none. Charged on wages and business profits where you work and, after credits, where you live.

School district income tax

Bowling Green City 1.25% (88% of residents), Otsego Local 1% (7% of residents), Eastwood Local 1% (4% of residents). Voted by the district and collected with the state income tax.

Sales tax

6.75% combined rate in Wood County: Ohio's 5.75% plus county and transit levies.

A mill is $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, and taxable value is 35% of market value. Effective rates fall as values rise because Ohio holds most voted levies to the dollars first approved. County, municipal or township, library, park and vocational-school levies are added on the same bill and are not counted here.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (composite DTE 515); weighted by the share of this ZIP's residents in each district; The Finder rate tables for municipal, school district and sales taxes, September 2026 · Ohio tax data series · The Finder

Who delivers the electricity

• Bowling Green Electric Division municipal81% of residentsBowling Green, Wood County
• Toledo Edison investor-owned17% of residentsFirstEnergy Corp.
• Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative, Inc. co-op2% of residentsBuckeye Power, Inc.

Bowling Green Electric Division outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 21 minutes (8 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 0.1 interruptions a year.

Bowling Green Electric Division residential price, 2024: 15.36 cents per kWh, about $97 a month for the average home across 13,068 residential customers (EIA-861).

Bowling Green Electric Division solar and meters, 2024: no net-metered solar customers reported; 100% of its 14,665 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters (EIA-861).

Toledo Edison outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 121 minutes (95 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 1.0 interruption a year.

Toledo Edison standard service offer price, 2024: 16.64 cents per kWh, about $123 a month for the average home, for the 79,007 residential customers who have not chosen a supplier; the other 199,807 pay Toledo Edison 7.81 cents per kWh for delivery plus their supplier's price (EIA-861).

Toledo Edison solar and meters, 2024: 738 customers run net-metered solar (45.6 MW, 636 of them homes); 40% of its 321,229 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 0% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative, Inc. outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 80 minutes (35 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 0.9 interruptions a year.

Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative, Inc. residential price, 2024: 17.05 cents per kWh, about $185 a month for the average home across 11,307 residential customers (EIA-861).

Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative, Inc. solar and meters, 2024: no net-metered solar reported under its own name (Buckeye Power, the co-ops' generation cooperative, files one Ohio net-metering row: 3,058 systems, 32.6 MW in 2024); 100% of its 13,591 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters (EIA-861).

Energy burden: households here spend an average 2.6% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $1,842 a year against $71,607 of income); the 48% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 6.6%, and 24% of households fall in groups averaging 6% or more, the usual line for a high burden (DOE LEAD Tool, 2022 update, built from 2018 to 2022 survey data).

Source: PUCO certified territories via ODOT · HIFLD retail service territories (EIA Form 861) · 2020 census blocks · outage statistics from EIA-861 Reliability, 2024 with 2023 where a utility skipped a year (SAIDI and SAIFI, IEEE 1366) · residential prices from EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, net metering and advanced meters from the EIA-861 files of the same years · DOE LEAD Tool 2022 household energy burden by tract, apportioned into ZIPs by block population · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories

Natural gas here

58% of the 14,182 homes here heat with utility gas.

Utility gas 58%Electricity 33%Propane or LP 7%Oil, wood, other 3%

• Columbia Gas of Ohio regulated utility91% of residents, main companyNiSource Inc.
• Suburban Natural Gas Company small company9% of residents, main companySmall PUCO-regulated company

Territories overlap here: KNG Energy, Inc. also maps service in this ZIP.

Pipes under the street: Columbia Gas of Ohio reported 20,620 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 64% plastic and 6.6% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 3,271 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.

PUCO lists 6 companies operating in Wood County: Arlington Natural Gas Company, Columbia Gas of Ohio, Enbridge Gas Ohio, KNG Energy, Inc., Suburban Natural Gas Company, Waterville Gas and Oil Company.

Source: PUCO gas distribution companies by county, April 2026 · federal (EIA) territory polygons, 2016 · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD

Power plants

Nearest plant of any size: Bowling Green Peaking, 0.9 mi (gas, 29 MW).

5 plants within 10 miles totalling 106 MW: 2 gas (67 MW), 1 solar (20 MW), 1 battery (12 MW), 1 wind (7 MW). Inside this ZIP: Bowling Green Generating Station (gas, 38 MW); Bowling Green Peaking (gas, 29 MW); DG AMP Solar Bowling Green (solar, 20 MW) and 1 more (99 MW inside in all).

Solar: DG AMP Solar Bowling Green, 20 MW AC (2017), 143 acres, 4 mi away; 3 utility-scale solar farms within 15 miles, inside the ZIP: DG AMP Solar Bowling Green.

Nuclear: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (894 MW) is 33 miles away, inside its 50-mile ingestion pathway zone, where crops, milk and water would be checked after an accident.

Capacity is net summer capacity in megawatts (EIA), not output; a solar farm's 200 MW runs a quarter of the hours a gas plant's would. Small peaking engines and landfill-gas units count as plants.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 860 plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025); USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database and U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database; NRC emergency planning zones around Perry and Davis-Besse (residents inside the roughly 10-mile zone counted by 2020 census block); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones

Gas transmission pipelines

20.9 miles of transmission pipe cross this ZIP: Columbia Gas Trans Co 13.3 mi, NEXUS Gas Transmission 7.5 mi.

Transmission lines run at hundreds of pounds of pressure and are inspected under federal rules; the distribution mains that actually feed homes are a separate, denser network not shown here. By mileage in this EIA layer Ohio's map is dominated by Columbia Gas Transmission and East Ohio Gas's intrastate lines; Texas Eastern and the Rover and Nexus lines built for Utica shale gas are among the other large interstate systems.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural Gas Interstate and Intrastate Pipelines layer (data last updated July 2025, pulled September 2026), via the ArcGIS Online copy maintained by Esri's Federal User Community; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; lengths clipped to the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item

Incumbent telephone company

• Frontier North97% of residentsFrontier
• Brightspeed3% of residentsBrightspeed (formerly CenturyLink)

ZIP codes and exchange areas do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

Source: PUCO incumbent local exchange carrier service areas · 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone

Internet

Served, 100/20 Mbps or better 100%Underserved, 25/3 to 100/20 0%Unserved, under 25/3 0%

Fiber reaches 68% of locations, cable 86%; a year earlier 99% were served.

Of 14,182 households, 74% subscribe to cable, fiber or DSL, 12% rely on a cellular plan only, and 3% have no internet at home.

Measured by Ookla speed tests, April to June 2025: typical fixed download 289.3 Mbps, upload 75.8 Mbps, 17 ms latency, across 1,355 tests from up to 392 devices in 145 map tiles.

Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024 (availability) · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (subscriptions) · Ookla Open Data, fixed-network speed tests by tile, 2025 Q2 (measured speeds) · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS

Cell signal

• AT&T4G 100% · 5G 39%
• T-Mobile4G 100% · 5G 99%
• Verizon4G 100% · 5G 92%

Registered towers: 33 antenna structures registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 20 within 3 miles of its center; the tallest inside is a 387-foot tower. Only structures over 200 feet or near airports must register, so most cell sites on short poles, water towers and rooftops are not counted.

Measured mobile speeds (Ookla speed tests, April to June 2026): typical download 261.4 Mbps, upload 21.3 Mbps, latency 37 ms over 182 tests from up to 76 devices in 61 map tiles.

Coverage as the carriers report it to the FCC for outdoor use at a stationary spot, by land area rather than by residents; indoor signal and rural hollows can be worse.

Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection via Esri Living Atlas (layer last updated November 2025, i.e. the June 30, 2025 filing round), carrier-reported outdoor coverage by hexagon, summed over the ZIP's land; FCC Antenna Structure Registration database, September 2026; Ookla open data mobile tiles, 2026 Q2 · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data

EV charging

6 public stations inside this ZIP with 6 Level 2 and 0 DC fast ports, 5 listed as free; the nearest of any kind is City of Bowling Green - City Park, 0.2 mi. 8 stations within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 0 with DC fast charging.

Networks here: non-networked (6).

Level 2 adds roughly 20 to 30 miles of range an hour; DC fast charging fills most cars in under an hour. Listings are operator-reported and lag new openings and closures.

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center via the U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public, open electric stations, the posts at one site merged, restricted-access sites excluded), and chargers in neighbouring states near the border; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; station list as of May 29, 2026 · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)

Public transit

20 stops inside this ZIP: BGSU Shuttle (20).

Only fixed-route systems that publish a GTFS feed appear; dial-a-ride and demand-response services do not, and a handful of small fixed-route systems publish no feed at all. Half a mile is roughly a ten-minute walk.

Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds; share of 2020 census block population within half a mile of a stop · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed

Walkability

Street grid

60 intersections per square mile, a mix of grid and cul-de-sacs

Transit

no stop within three-quarters of a mile in the EPA's 2020 transit file

Mix of uses

employment mix 0.54 and mix of homes and job types 0.53 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied

Car-free households

8.5% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

The index scores every block group on intersection density, distance to transit and how mixed its jobs and homes are, then ranks them against the whole country. It measures the street pattern, not sidewalks, safety or hills.

Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by census block group, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks; car-free households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 table B25044 (the Homes card), or, where that is missing, the Smart Location Database's own 2014 to 2018 share weighted by households · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS

Rail crossings

26 with gates; railroads: CSX (31). Busiest crossing: 6 trains a day reported; fastest line 50 mph.

Collisions: 5 crossing incidents reported to the FRA inside this ZIP since 2010 (1 killed, 2 injured), the latest in 2026; most at Ridge Street in Bowling Green (1).

Wood County has logged 108 rail accidents since 2010, 73 of them derailments (FRA Form 54). Yard mishaps at walking speed dominate; main-line derailments are the rare, dangerous ones.

Train counts and speeds are the railroad's last inventory update. Crossings with only crossbucks rely on the driver; Ohio has averaged about 77 crossing collisions a year from 2010 to 2025 (FRA Form 57), between 64 and 87 in a year.

Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Grade Crossing Inventory (Form 71, current records); crossings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary, closed crossings excluded; nearest crossing measured from the population-weighted center. Collisions are FRA Form 57 crossing incidents since 2010, placed by crossing id through the inventory's coordinates; train accidents are FRA Form 54 rail equipment accidents since 2010, placed by their own reported coordinates, counted one per incident rather than one per report (county totals from the same file). All three pulled from data.transportation.gov, September 2026 · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data

Bridges

Age

typical bridge built 1979, 5 built before 1950; oldest 1910, Tuller Road over Ditch 2311 Tuller Road

Busiest

IR 75 over Poe Ditch, 48,870 vehicles a day (2015 count)

Owners

county 47, state 29

Rated poor

Kellogg Road over Ditch 2426 Kellogg Road (1980, 1,917 a day); Mercer Road over Toussaint Creek Mercer R (1957, 834 a day) and 1 more

Ratings come from the inspection every bridge gets at least every two years; poor means deterioration that needs repair, not imminent danger. FHWA's file is a yearly snapshot with inspections through early 2025, so a bridge replaced, re-rated or closed since then still shows its old rating here; ODOT's TIMS bridge inventory carries the current one. Traffic figures are the average daily counts the bridge owners filed with the inventory; most Ohio counts date from 2015 and some are older. County engineers own most of Ohio's small bridges and ODOT the big ones.

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory 2025 (Ohio file); structures whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary; condition from NBI items 58, 59, 60 and 62 (deck, superstructure, substructure, culvert) · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)

Traffic

Trucks

8,156 a day on I-75, 13% of its traffic

Driving

about 1.1M vehicle-miles a day on the 819 counted segments inside the ZIP; the typical segment carries 2,892 vehicles

Freeway volumes

13 segments carry 50,000 or more a day

Busiest local road

county road 78, 10,489 vehicles a day

Annual average daily traffic is both directions combined, averaged over the year. County, township and city roads are labelled by their route number, which ODOT uses instead of the street name. Most city streets have no count, so the busiest local road is the busiest counted one. Interchange ramps are left out of the busiest-road pick; a ZIP with nothing but ramps shows one labelled ramp and its ODOT number.

Road deaths: 16 people died in 16 crashes inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (2 pedestrians, 1 cyclist, 5 motorcyclists); 3 involved a drinking driver and 7 happened in the dark; most on US-6 (4). That is 10.2 deaths a year per 100,000 residents against 10.6 across Ohio's ZIPs; deaths are counted where the crash happened, and many who die live elsewhere. (NHTSA FARS)

Source: ODOT traffic count segments, 2025 annual average daily traffic (ODOT TIMS); segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024, crashes placed by their coordinates · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS

Airports and trains

Nearest airfield

Wood County Regional (1G0), Bowling Green, 1.4 mi, public use

Amtrak

Toledo station, 18.6 mi

Ohio's Amtrak stops are on the Floridian (Amtrak has temporarily combined the Capitol Limited with the Silver Star), the Lake Shore Limited and the Cardinal, all overnight trains; Cincinnati's only calls three times a week. Amtrak's Thruway bus stops, Dayton-Trotwood among them, are not counted as stations here. Airline service at Toledo and Rickenbacker is limited to a few routes; Youngstown-Warren has had no airline flights since 2018.

Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · BTS transportation atlas

Radon in this ZIP

33% of tests at or above EPA's 4 pCi/L action level · median 2.6 · highest 34.1

A ZIP average says nothing about one house; readings next door can differ tenfold. Test yours, and fix it at 4 pCi/L or more.

Source: odh.ohio.gov radon levels by ZIP code, tests since 2010, before mitigation · ODH radon program

Flood zones

1.4% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain, and another 0.0% is in the 0.2% (500-year) zone. Zones mapped here: A, AE.

Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 5.3 inches in 24 hours (2.7 in a single hour, 4.0 in six); a 2-year storm 2.4, 10-year 3.5, 25-year 4.1, 500-year 6.8 inches in 24 hours. Storm sewers, culverts and detention ponds are sized from these numbers, and a "100-year" storm has a 1% chance every year.

Nearest river gauge: Maumee River at Waterville OH, 8.6 mi away, draining 6,330 square miles. Record flow 180,000 cubic feet a second at a stage of 19.9 ft on 1913-03; the highest since 2016 was 70,400 on 2025-04-04 (USGS, 96 annual peaks, 1900 to 2025).

9 federal flood insurance policies are in force in this ZIP, covering $1.6 million of buildings; 11% of them are in a mapped high-risk zone; the typical policy costs $724 a year (about 1% of households).

12 federal flood insurance claims from this ZIP since 1978, 1 since 2010, paying about $88,084 in all; the worst year was 1998 with 3 claims; 88% of claims came from outside the mapped high-risk zone.

Community status: Bowling Green takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 09/02/11. Wood County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 09/02/11.

Lenders require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in the 1% zone (zones A and AE). Block centers understate narrow floodplains in rural areas, so check the FEMA map for a specific address.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective flood insurance rate maps, levee centerlines) · 2020 census block centers · ZIP land area by polygon overlay, open water excluded; NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency at the ZIP center; USGS NWIS annual peak flows; OpenFEMA NFIP policies in force by reported ZIP as of September 2026, NFIP redacted claims and the Community Status Book · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges

Natural hazard risk

• Ice storm83
• Hail73

FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $9.8 million a year in buildings, crops and lives.

The index blends how often a hazard strikes, what it would cost, and how vulnerable and resilient the community is. Inland flooding (rivers and heavy rain) scores 53, tornado 71, winter weather 70.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, weighted to this ZIP by 2020 block population · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)

Climate

Temperature

50.8°F average; typical January low 19°, July high 84°

Hot and cold days

16 days a year reach 90°F; 127 nights fall below freezing, 6 below 0°F; 43 days never climb above freezing

Rain and snow

35.2 inches of precipitation on 74 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 21 inches of snow on 8 days with an inch or more, snow on the ground 37 days

Degree days

6,012 heating, 878 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill

Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Wood County has spent 90 weeks in moderate drought or worse, 35 of them severe or worse (most recently 13 weeks in 2026), and 157 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was extreme drought in 2026/03; 12% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.

Long run (NOAA, Wood County): the average year ran 51.7 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 49.2 °F over 1901 to 1930, 2.6 °F warmer (1.8 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 55.1 °F, and 2025 came in at 51.8 °F. Precipitation averaged 35.5 inches a year lately against 34.1 a century ago, 4% more; the wettest year was 2011 with 51.2 inches, and 2025 brought 30.0. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.

Stations: Bowling Green WWTP (2.3 mi, temperature and precipitation and snowfall; 13 years of snowfall record). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them; NOAA marks this snowfall normal provisional because the station record is too short or too patchy for a standard normal, and the temperature and precipitation figures here skip stations with under 10 years.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (annual/seasonal and monthly); nearest reporting station to the ZIP's population-weighted center for each element; U.S. Drought Monitor county statistics · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

Air quality

Worst days

98th-percentile day 28.8 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)

Ozone

65 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at Bowling Green, 2.3 mi away (standard 70)

Wood County AQI, 2025

208 good days, 35 moderate, 1 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse of the 244 days indexed; peak 108, median 39

Wood County AQI, 2026 so far

59 good days, 2 moderate and 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse in the 61 days indexed through April 30; peak 54 (Ozone)

Air toxics

20 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Wood County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (16) and carbon tetrachloride (3)

Permitted sources

21 permitted air sources inside this ZIP under the Clean Air Act (4 major, Title V), 1 synthetic minor; 2 had a violation in the last 3 years; $52,000 in penalties in the last 5 years. Notable: Wood County Landfill (major, 1 violation quarter); Amp Bowling Green Peaking Plant (major); Cooper Standard Automotive, LLC (major); Omega Jv2 Bowling Green Generating Station (major) (4 permanently closed sources also on file) (EPA ECHO)

Air standards

Wood County meets every national air quality standard and carries no maintenance plan (EPA Green Book)

Ohio has 38 PM2.5 monitors, mostly in cities and near industry, so a rural ZIP borrows a reading from far away. 2025 includes Canadian wildfire smoke days. Air-toxics risk is EPA's modelled lifetime estimate for the county as a whole; EPA's national average is about 30 in a million, and formaldehyde, with the globally mixed carbon tetrachloride background and acetaldehyde, makes up most of it.

Source: EPA Air Quality System, 2025 annual summary files (monitor annual concentrations, county AQI) and the 2026 daily county AQI file; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest monitor · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO

Toxic and Superfund sites

17 facilities have reported toxic chemical releases or transfers to EPA's inventory from inside this ZIP, and 0 sites appear in the Superfund program's list (most assessed and never listed).

267 EPA-registered facilities of all kinds in this ZIP: 0 brownfield sites in the cleanup program, 112 hazardous-waste handlers, 33 with air permits, 56 with water discharge permits.

Nearest landfill: JEHM Enterprises LLC, 2.2 mi from the center, construction and demolition debris landfill; 1 landfill site within 3 miles of the population center, 3 inside this ZIP. Ohio EPA's list includes closed and historic dumps.

State cleanup program: 2 sites inside this ZIP (Aldi; Cooper Engineered Products), 2 within 3 miles of the population center; the nearest is Cooper Engineered Products, 0.9 mi from the center, remedial response.

Solid waste: 3 licensed waste facilities inside this ZIP (1 municipal landfill, 1 construction debris landfill, 1 compost site); nearest JEHM Enterprises LLC (construction debris landfill), 2.1 mi from the center; 3 within 5 miles of the center (Ohio EPA licences, 2026). Compost sites and transfer stations are where most of a county's trash and yard waste actually goes.

Hazardous waste (EPA ECHO): 66 active RCRA handlers inside this ZIP, 1 of them licensed to treat, store or dispose of hazardous waste; 3 had a violation in the last 3 years. Notable: Lamps Inc dba Environmental Recycling (treatment, storage or disposal, 1 violation quarter); Betco Corp (2 violation quarters); A-Gas US Inc (1 violation quarter). Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.

Underground tanks: 20 sites with 62 registered underground storage tanks in use (141 more tanks closed over the years); 95 leaking-tank releases on record, 2 open at the time, 4 inside a drinking-water source protection area; 4 reported since 2015, the latest in 2017 (EPA UST Finder, Ohio records as of 2018-2019).

Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is NORTHWEST TIRE SERVICE, Bowling Green, 0.6 mi away (4 inside this ZIP); the nearest household battery drop-off is CycleWerks-Bowling Green, Bowling Green, 0.8 mi away (3 inside this ZIP) (Ohio EPA).

The inventory covers larger manufacturers and federal facilities that use listed chemicals; reporting means use or release, not a measured hazard to neighbours. Superfund status: on, proposed for, or deleted from the list after cleanup.

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS and NPL) sites and Toxics Release Inventory reporters, points inside the ZIP boundary; distance from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO

Toxic releases

Where it went

26,084 lb to the air, 0 lb to surface water, 0 lb to land or underground injection; another 175,699 lb was shipped off site for disposal or release

Chemicals

Ammonia 12,580 lb, Bromotrifluoromethane (Halon 1301) 2,993 lb, Cyanide compounds 1,929 lb

Carcinogens

2,457 lb of the on-site releases were chemicals EPA lists as carcinogens

Facilities

Dowa Tht America Inc (Fabricated Metals): 14,509 lb, mostly Ammonia; A-Gas Us Inc (Chemicals): 7,307 lb, mostly Bromotrifluoromethane (Halon 1301); Cooper Standard Automotive (Plastics and Rubber): 3,499 lb, mostly 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole

Trend

27,132 lb on site in 2020, so down 4% over four years

Pounds are what facilities report, not what reaches anyone: a ton of ammonia to the air and an ounce of mercury to a river are not the same risk. Off-site transfers go mostly to landfills and treatment plants elsewhere.

Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, basic data files for Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown); facilities placed by their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams are left out of the pound totals · EPA TRI data files

Dams

Nearest high-hazard dam: Bowling Green Upground Res & Sludge Lgns, 7.6 mi, condition satisfactory (water supply, 22 ft high, 540 acre-feet, built 1989, on Maumee River - Offstream, local government owned).

Inside this ZIP: 3 dams, 1 high-hazard, 2 rated poor: Bowling Green Upground Res & Sludge Lgns (high hazard, condition satisfactory); Candlewood Lake Dam (significant hazard, condition poor) and 1 more.

"High hazard" describes what a failure would do downstream, not the dam's shape; Ohio rates more than a third of its inventoried dams in poor condition, mostly small private lake dams. Emergency action plans are required for high-hazard dams.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (August 2026 release); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Condition assessments come from Ohio's dam safety program. · National Inventory of Dams

Disasters on record

Strongest nearby: F3 on 1983-05-02, 5 mi track (1 killed, 22 injured).

13 federal declarations for Wood County since Ohio's first in 1956 (8 major disasters): severe storm 4, flood 2, biological 2. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).

9 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970, the largest M3 6 km ESE of Risingsun, Ohio in 1974.

Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Wood County): 15 tornado warnings (2015: 2, 2016: 4, 2019: 3, 2024: 3, 2026: 3), 171 severe thunderstorm warnings, 6 flash flood warnings, 83 flood warnings and 51 flood advisories, 7 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 35 heat warnings or advisories, 6 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 1 snow squall warning; 817 products in all.

Mitigation grants (FEMA): 3 hazard mitigation projects in Wood County since 2012, worth $383,992 ($338,366 federal); mostly advanced assistance, other equipment purchase and installation, warning systems. Largest: advanced assistance for Rossford, $221,000 (fiscal 2020).

Disaster aid to households: 60 households in this ZIP registered with FEMA after 2 declared disasters; 52 were approved for $403,109 of housing and other-needs help. Registrations by event: COVID-19 pandemic (2020): 59; severe storms and tornadoes (2002): 1.

101 severe weather reports for Wood County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 74 damaging thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 5 river and street flooding, 2 lightning strikes. Largest hail 1 in (Mar 27, 2016); strongest measured gust 74 mph (Jun 22, 2017); 1 injury; about $595,000 in reported damage, the costliest being river and street flooding on Jun 2, 2019 ($175K). Zone-wide advisories add 6 high wind, 5 winter storms, 2 extreme cold.

Tornado tracks are straight lines from touchdown to lift-off; a near miss counts, a direct hit is not distinguished. Declarations include the 2020 COVID-19 emergency for every county; the latest, declared 2 May 2024 (DR-4777), covers the 14 March 2024 tornadoes in eleven counties, Indian Lake among them.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025; OpenFEMA disaster declarations summaries; USGS earthquake catalog (M2+, 1970 to date); NOAA Storm Events database 2016 to 2026 by county. Distances from the ZIP's population-weighted center. · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive

Spills and releases

What spilled

diesel and fuel oil (10), unidentified material or sheen (9), oils and hydraulic fluid (7)

Largest

about 950 gallons of nitrogen fertilizer 28% in 2026, Middleton Twp

Reached water

2 of them reached a creek, river, ditch or storm drain (named or unnamed)

By year

2021: 6, 2022: 5, 2023: 4, 2024: 4, 2025: 7, 2026: 8

Anyone who spills more than a reportable quantity must call Ohio EPA within 30 minutes, so the log mixes a few gallons of diesel on a highway shoulder with real releases; the reported volume is the caller's first estimate. Every report in Ohio EPA's open-data layer carries coordinates; air-pollution complaints and calls where nothing was found are left out of this count.

Source: Ohio EPA Emergency Response spill reports (Spills2 open data), reports with coordinates inside the ZIP boundary, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response

Oil and gas wells

Status

4 producing, 225 plugged or abandoned, the rest drilled but idle, gas storage, orphan, expired permits or unknown

Orphans

92 wells in the state orphan program, unplugged with no solvent owner

Operators

Second Oil Ltd (1 producing), Whitman James (1 producing)

Ohio has drilled since 1860, so most wells here are old, shallow and plugged; unplugged orphans and injection wells are the ones that matter for groundwater. Well-head points can be a few hundred feet off for the oldest records.

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, public well inventory (well-head points); counts inside the ZIP boundary and within 1 mile of the ZIP's population-weighted center · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services

Abandoned mines

Undermined land can subside and old workings can discharge acid mine water; ODNR's Abandoned Mine Land program funds repairs, and mine-subsidence insurance is included automatically in 26 eastern counties and offered as an option in 11 more. Maps drawn before 1977 are incomplete, so "none" means none mapped.

Quarries, pits and working mines: nearest Portage Quarry (limestone, Stoneco, Inc., 526,474 tons sold), 4.6 mi away in Wood County; 0 within 3 miles, 3 within 10 (ODNR Industrial Minerals Locations, 2015, which includes surface and underground coal mines).

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mines of Ohio (abandoned underground mine maps, coal and industrial minerals, pre-1977), overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey

Soils and septic

Soil

Hoytville-Urban land complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes; Hoytville makes up 60% of the unit, 0% slope

Water

very poorly drained; hydric (formed under saturated conditions); flooding none, ponding frequent

Septic

Very limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule

Basements

Very limited for dwellings with basements

Farmland

Not prime farmland

Elevation

676 feet above sea level at the ZIP's population center; Ohio runs from 455 feet where the Ohio River leaves the state to 1,549 feet at Campbell Hill

One point stands for the ZIP; soils change field by field, and a site evaluation is what the health department goes by. "Very limited" means the standard design will not work, not that nothing will.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, SSURGO soil survey via Soil Data Access; the map unit at the ZIP's population-weighted center and its dominant component's interpretations; Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model (via Open-Meteo) at that center · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation

Parks and public land

Forrest Creason Golf Course

private park, 149 acres inside the ZIP

Riverby Hills Golf Club

private park, 138 acres inside the ZIP

Nearest state park: Mary Jane Thurston State Park, 11.6 mi.

Protected land: 1.3% of this ZIP (957 acres) is in the USGS Protected Areas Database inventory of fee-owned parks, preserves and recreation land (public agencies, land trusts, and private clubs, camps and utility land, as their owners report it): 512 acres local, 293 acres private, 66 acres district, 64 acres joint. Largest: Forrest Creason Golf Course (private owner), 149 acres; Riverby Hills Golf Club (private owner), 139 acres; Wintergarden/St. John'S Nature Preserve (city), 103 acres. 1% of the ZIP is protected land open to the public.

Trails: 18.2 miles of named trails cross this ZIP: Buckeye Trail (15.9 mi, statewide trail); Slippery Elm Trail (2.3 mi, county trail); 13.4 miles more are proposed or planned. 21.2 miles of state bike route E, N run through it (ODNR statewide trails inventory).

Open access as reported by each owner; local inventories vary, so a golf course or school field can be listed and a new park missed.

State lands nearby (ODNR facility layers): nearest boat ramp: Boat Ramp at Mary Jane Thurston State Park, 12.2 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Fishing Access at Mary Jane Thurston State Park, 11.6 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at Indian Lake State Park, 61 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Campground/Campsite at Mary Jane Thurston State Park, 11.7 mi (0 within 5 miles).

Lake Erie and tributary access: 2 public access sites inside this ZIP; nearest river access site Missionary Island State Wildlife Area on Maumee River (ODNR Wildlife), 7.7 mi away; 0 within 5 miles, 48 within 15. Nearest swimming beach: Maumee Bay State Park on Maumee Bay, 25 mi. (ODNR coastal access inventory)

Source: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States 4.1 (open-access fee, designation and easement polygons), overlaid on the ZIP boundary; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest ODNR state park · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services

Wetlands

1,078 acres forested/shrub wetland, 515 acres pond, 189 acres emergent wetland. Largest single wetland: 47 acres of freshwater forested/shrub wetland.

High-quality wetlands: nearest is Wildlife Habitat Restoration Program Chamberlain (Ohio DNR), 38 acres, 5.7 mi away; 1 within 10 miles.

Mitigation sites: 1 stream or wetland mitigation site inside this ZIP; nearest BG Water Treatment Plant, 7.8 mi away (a permittee-responsible site under an environmental covenant); 2 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.

Assessed wetland: nearest Steidtmann Buttonbush, a buttonbush swamp, 5.2 mi away: ORAM 69 of 100 (category 3) (surveyed 2003); 3 within 10 miles. Category 3 wetlands are the state's best and hardest to fill; category 1 are degraded.

Mapped from aerial photography, mostly 2004 to 2007 (the Lake Erie watersheds were re-mapped from 2021 imagery, a few areas date from 1976 to 2005 or 2014 to 2023), so small and seasonal wetlands are undercounted and ponds dug or filled since then are missing; a site delineation decides whether a lot is jurisdictional. Emergent means marsh, forested and shrub means swamp.

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory (Ohio geodatabase), freshwater wetland and pond polygons clipped to the ZIP boundary; lakes and river channels excluded, imagery mostly 2004 to 2007 (Lake Erie basin 2021) · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services

Land cover

Developed

16%: 2% high intensity (downtown blocks, big-box lots), 4% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 5% low (houses on larger lots), 5.8% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)

Farmland

79%: 77% row crops, 1.8% pasture and hay

Crops 2025

of 49,575 cropped acres, 56% soybeans, 31% corn, 7% wheat and small grains (plus 4% wheat followed by soybeans, counted under soybeans), 2% hay and alfalfa, 3% vegetables, orchards, fallow and other crops; 4,632 acres of pasture and grass (USDA Cropland Data Layer)

Forest

3.5%, plus 0.5% grass and shrub

Water and wetland

0.6% open water, 0.5% wetland

Paved and roofed

6% of the ZIP's surface is impervious; rain that lands there runs straight to a storm drain or stream instead of soaking in

Tree canopy

4% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy

Area

110.4 square miles of land

Land cover is classified from Landsat imagery at 30 metre pixels, so a house on a wooded lot can read as forest and a farm lane as open space. Stream health starts to slip once about 10% of a watershed is impervious, and is usually poor above 25%.

Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, summarised over the ZIP boundary · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation

People

Education

42.8% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 19.6% a graduate degree; 30.7% stopped at high school or earlier

Ages

16.9% under 18, 14.5% 65 or older

Race and origin

84.4% white, 3% Black, 6.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% Asian, 4.6% other or two or more races

Born abroad

3.8% of residents (1,183 people); largest countries of birth: Mexico (234), Canada (97), China (85)

Veterans

4.2% of adults

Households

2.2 people per household on average; 37% of households are one person living alone, 31% married couples

Who lives here

19% of households include children, 22% someone 65 or over and 10.5% are a senior living alone; of people 15 and over, 36% are married, 52% never married, 8% divorced and 4% widowed

Poverty

24.0% of residents live below the poverty line, 10.9% of children and 10.2% of people 65 and over; the Gini index of income inequality is 0.49 (0 would mean every household earns the same, 1 that one household earns everything). County-wide, the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate is 11.0% (9.7% of children) with a median household income of $77,522 (SAIPE)

Ancestry

most often reported: German 32%, English 13%, Irish 11%

Movers

27.0% of residents lived somewhere else a year earlier, 2.8% in another state and 0.4% abroad

Language

1.4% of households speak limited English; 3.9% speak Spanish at home

Group quarters

649 of the 31,459 people counted here in 2020 (2.1%) lived in group quarters: 309 in nursing facilities, 156 in prisons and jails, 88 in other group housing such as shelters, group homes and worker dormitories, 69 in college housing, 27 in juvenile facilities (2020 Census)

Moving

6,638 people moved into Wood County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 6,468 moved out (net +170, 100,994 stayed put); most arrivals came from Lucas, OH (2,435), Hancock, OH (374), Ottawa, OH (227); most leavers went to Lucas, OH (2,097), Hancock, OH (369), Ottawa, OH (239) (IRS)

Metro or rural

USDA rural-urban continuum code 2 of 9 for Wood County: metro - counties in metro areas of 250,000 to 1 million population

Nonprofits

254 tax-exempt organizations registered to addresses in this ZIP, 20 of them reporting $1 million or more in income; 74% are 501(c)(3) charities and 13% churches or religious groups; largest: Wood County Hospital Assn ($152 million), Wood Lane Residential Services ($14 million), Wood County Childrens Services Association ($8 million) (IRS)

County growth

Wood County went from 132,243 people in April 2020 to 134,176 in July 2025 (+1.5%): 6,248 births, 6,469 deaths and a net +2,265 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 846 moved in from elsewhere in the U.S. and 211 arrived from abroad (Census estimates)

Since 1900

First counted in 1820 with 733 people and 9,157 by 1850, Wood County counted 51,555 people in 1900, 59,605 in 1950, 89,722 in 1970, 121,072 in 2000 and 132,243 in 2020; it has never been larger than today (2.6 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)

Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as the core of a micropolitan area (a town of 10,000 to 50,000) (rural-urban commuting area code 4 of 10, 2020 edition).

Race shares follow the Census categories, with Hispanic origin counted separately from race. Five-year averages centered on 2022. Moves count people on tax returns whose address changed county, so students and the very poor are undercounted.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (tables B15003, B03002, B05002, B21001, B01001, B25010, B11001, B17001, B19083, B04006, B07003, C16002, B05006, B11005, B11007, B12001); county population estimates, vintage 2025; IRS exempt organization master file; USDA rural-urban continuum codes 2023; USDA ERS rural-urban commuting area codes 2020; 2020 Census PL 94-171 redistricting file, group quarters (table P5); IRS Statistics of Income county migration, returns filed in 2022 and 2023; Census SAIPE 2024 county poverty and median income; decennial county counts from the Census Bureau report Population of States and Counties of the United States 1790 to 1990 · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations

Jobs and commuting

Largest employers by sector: Education 4,144, Manufacturing 4,045, Health care and social assistance 2,561. 53% of local jobs pay over $3,333 a month, and 52% of residents' jobs do.

Businesses: 719 establishments with 13,058 employees and $590 million a year in payroll in 2023, at least 24 of them with 100 or more workers; most common: health care and social assistance (102), restaurants and hotels (102), retail (91), other services (84) (ZIP Business Patterns).

Workplace safety (OSHA): 68 inspections of workplaces in this ZIP since 2020 (1 after deaths or injury reports, 12 after complaints, 32 planned, 17 on referrals); most inspected: Vehtek Systems Inc. (7), Pinnacle Industrial Enterprises, Inc. (3), Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. (3). No worker death investigated since 2015; 9 hospitalisations.

County labor market: Wood County's unemployment rate was 3.4% in July 2026 (4.9% a year earlier), with 68,474 people in the labor force and 2,305 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $1,216 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 5.6% on the year) to 74,763 workers at 3,505 establishments, employment down 0.8%; the largest private sectors are manufacturing (14,009 jobs, $1,650 a week), transportation and warehousing (10,441 jobs, $913 a week), restaurants and hotels (7,483 jobs, $360 a week). (BLS)

Working-age residents: 66.3% of people 16 and over here are in the labor force, and 5.1% of the civilian labor force was unemployed, averaged over 2020 to 2024 (Census ACS). Residents' most common occupations: education, legal, community service and arts 19%, management and business 13%, production 10%; 8% are self-employed and 20% work for a government.

Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $172 million in contracts performed in Wood County ($1,301 a resident) and $162 million in grants ($1,222 a resident), plus $99,000 in loan guarantees and loans and $821 million in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).

County economy: Wood County produced $8.3 billion of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, up 9.0% since 2019); personal income came to $62,600 a person in 2024, 20th of Ohio's 88 counties and up 32% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).

County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Wood County is a metro county with a manufacturing-dependent economy, with none of the ERS distress flags.

Opportunity zone: 10% of residents live in a census tract designated a federal Qualified Opportunity Zone in 2018, where investors who put capital gains into local projects get tax breaks (CDFI Fund list, 2010 tracts carried to 2020 boundaries).

How they get there: 77.2% drive alone, 7.2% carpool, 0.3% transit, 5% walk, 0.7% bike, 9% work from home (ACS).

Where residents work: 36% inside this ZIP; 8% in Perrysburg (43551), 4% in Findlay (45840), 4% in Maumee (43537) (shares of the 13,700 residents with an Ohio workplace).

Unemployment-insurance records tie each job to a workplace and a home address; large employers sometimes report every worker at a headquarters, which inflates a few ZIPs. Self-employment, the military, the Postal Service, most farm work and a large part of federal civilian employment are missing (federal jobs come from OPM records that omit several agencies and, in practice, most of Wright-Patterson).

Source: Census Bureau LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, all jobs; populated census blocks assigned to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas by interior point, workplace-only blocks by the majority ZCTA of their block group or tract; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023; OSHA enforcement data via the Labor Department open data catalog; BLS county unemployment (LAUS) and wages (QCEW); Census ACS 2020 to 2024 labor force by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (B23025); USAspending federal awards by county, fiscal 2025; BEA county GDP and personal income · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones

Upward mobility

Meaning

a little better than the Ohio median of 42 for low-income children

Incarceration

1.57% of those children were in jail or prison on census day 2010

Coverage

75% of the ZIP's residents live in tracts with an estimate

The rank describes people born around 1980 who were children here in the 1980s and 1990s; neighbourhoods change, so it is a record of what the place did for one generation, not a forecast. Estimates for small tracts are noisy.

Source: Opportunity Atlas tract outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, 2018; Census Bureau and IRS data for children born 1978 to 1983), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

Social vulnerability

Socioeconomic status

51st percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance

Household characteristics

22nd: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English

Racial and ethnic minority status

48th

Housing and transportation

53rd: multi-unit and mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle, group quarters

The index ranks tracts on how much help their residents would need in a disaster or disease outbreak, using American Community Survey 2018 to 2022 figures. Ranks are within Ohio; a ZIP is the average of its tracts weighted by residents.

Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022, census tracts ranked among Ohio tracts, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI

Community health

Weight and activity

obesity 38.4%, no leisure-time physical activity 24.6%

Chronic conditions

diabetes 10.4%, high blood pressure 31.8%, COPD 6.9%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 7.3%

Habits

current smoking 13.5%, binge drinking 18.1%, short sleep 36.3%

Mind

depression 29.4%, frequent mental distress 19.4%, feeling lonely 36.2%

Access

uninsured under 65 8.2%, yearly checkup 78.3%, dental visit 62.6%

Hardship

any disability 31.0%, food insecurity 15.7%

Heart and lungs

current asthma 11.1%, coronary heart disease 5.9%, stroke 2.9%, arthritis 24.7%

Keeping up

74.0% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 80.4% had a cholesterol check in 5 years

Social needs

housing insecurity 11.3%, no reliable transportation 9.5%, utility shut-off threat 8.8%, lacking emotional support 19.5%

Provider shortage

33% live in an area HRSA designates a primary care shortage area for its low-income residents (score 19 of 25); none for dental; 100% live in a designated mental health shortage area (score 16 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)

Coverage (Census)

4.7% of residents have no health insurance (1.3% of children); 12% are on Medicaid and 63% have coverage through an employer

Disability (Census)

12.1% of residents report a disability, 29% of those 65 and over

County (County Health Rankings 2025): Wood County sits in health group 2 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 3 for community conditions. Premature death 6,563 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 1,472 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 448 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 3,060 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 3,182 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 60.6 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 13.0 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths 5.6 (Ohio 7.0) per 1,000 births; teen births 7.7 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 9.3 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 8.3 (Ohio 7.8) micrograms per cubic metre; no community water system in the county had a health-based drinking water violation in 2023. Drug overdoses: 12 deaths in the 12 months ending September 2025 (12 a year earlier, 34 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending April 2021), about 9 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide in the 12 months ending December 2025; the county count has been suppressed (1 to 9 deaths) in every later month (CDC provisional counts).

Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Wood County records 463.4 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 707 cases a year, with the rate stable; cancer deaths 169.1 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), falling. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 50.1 (63.6), colorectal 37.6 (38.4), female breast 130.8 (133), prostate 129.4 (120.8), bladder 17.5 (21.8), leukemia 14.7 (13).

Medicare: 27,293 people in Wood County were on Medicare in 2025 (20% of residents): 24,890 aged 65 or over and 2,403 younger people with disabilities. 52% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 10% also had Medicaid and 87% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 12% since 2020 (CMS).

Modelled from a national telephone survey and the ZIP's demographics, so these are estimates of what residents would report, not counts of patients; small ZIPs carry wide margins.

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (BRFSS 2023 and 2022, ACS 2019-2023), model-based ZCTA estimates of crude adult prevalence; County Health Rankings 2025 and CDC provisional overdose counts for the county; HRSA shortage area designations weighted to the ZIP; Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (insurance, disability); CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment, county, 2025 · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data

Life expectancy

Ohio's statewide figure for the same years was 77.6; the United States 78.7. Differences of a year or two between neighbouring ZIPs are within the estimates' error; differences of five or more are real and track income, smoking and access to care.

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP), 2010-2015, census tracts weighted by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP

Nearest hospital

196 beds · no trauma designation listed · 1 general or critical-access hospital within 10 miles, 11 within 25.

Medicare rating: ★★★★☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 158 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)

Patients' verdict: 70% would definitely recommend it, 74% rated their stay 9 or 10 out of 10 (★★★★☆ patient-experience rating, 348 surveys).

Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 11.3% (about the national rate), pneumonia 20% (about the national rate), July 2022 to June 2025; the patient-safety composite for serious complications (July 2022 to June 2024) is about the national value (Medicare).

Community health center: 1 inside this ZIP, nearest Wood County Community Health Center, Bowling Green, 2.8 mi away; 1 within 3 miles, 1 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.

Veterans: nearest VA site is Toledo Vet Center, Toledo (vtcr), 15.8 mi away; 0 VA sites within 10 miles, 2 within 25.

Providers: 995 active health care providers list a practice address in this ZIP: 112 physicians, 57 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, 27 dentists, 263 mental health professionals, 10 pharmacies, 1 hospital, 8 nursing or assisted-living facilities, 6 home health or hospice agencies; most common physician specialties: Family Medicine (29), Emergency Medicine (22), Pediatrics (7) (NPPES registry, August 2026).

Dialysis: 1 center inside this ZIP, nearest Usrc Bowling Green, Bowling Green, 0.7 mi away, 12 stations, Medicare ★★★☆☆ (US Renal Care, Inc.); 1 within 5 miles, 7 within 15.

Source: federal HIFLD hospital inventory (via FEMA) with Medicare Care Compare star ratings, emergency-service flags, median emergency department times (measure OP_18b), HCAHPS patient survey results and 30-day death rates and patient-safety composites (Complications and Deaths file; a campus with no record of its own carries its parent hospital's figures, labelled); NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active records by practice ZIP; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center (some listings lag closures and mergers); HRSA health center sites, CMS dialysis facilities (geocoded with the Census geocoder) and the VA facility list · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

Nursing homes

3 certified homes within 5 miles, 19 within 15; 3 inside this ZIP.

Medicare rating

★★★★☆ overall; inspections ★★★☆☆; staffing ★★★☆☆

Beds

99 certified

Ownership

For profit, corporation

Penalties

no federal fines or payment denials since 2023 (CMS)

In this ZIP: BOWLING GREEN MANOR (4★, 99 beds); WILLOWS AT BOWLING GREEN THE (5★, 50 beds); WOOD HAVEN HEALTH CARE SENIOR LIVING & REHAB (4★, 93 beds).

Stars are Medicare's Care Compare ratings; a 1-star home failed inspections or is thinly staffed, and the abuse flag means a citation for harm in the past year or two. Ratings shift every quarter.

Source: Medicare Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files (CMS), geocoded with the Census Bureau; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · CMS Care Compare data

Crime

Violent

21 offenses: 0 murders, 5 rapes, 2 robberies, 14 aggravated assaults (0.7 per 1,000 residents; Ohio 3.2)

Property

290 offenses: 21 burglaries, 262 thefts, 7 vehicle thefts (9.6 per 1,000; Ohio 16.9)

Other

125 simple assaults, 144 vandalism reports, 123 drug offenses, 9 weapons violations

Reporting

12 months of 2024 on file; 30,287 residents served; this department covers the 81% of the ZIP's residents in its territory, the rest fall under others

Trend

violent offenses up 40% from 15 in 2023; property down 26% from 393

Rates cover the whole agency's territory, not this ZIP alone: a city's downtown and its quiet edges share one number. Murders, rapes and assaults are counted once per victim and other offenses once per incident, as the FBI's Crime Data Explorer does; a large department's figures can still fall somewhat short of the Explorer's, which takes in later submissions, and a sheriff's population is only the unincorporated area it serves.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS incident data for Ohio, 2024 (2023 for the trend): Group A offenses per reporting agency (violent = murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault; property = burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson), murders, rapes and assaults counted once per victim; the agency is the police department of the ZIP's largest local government (city, village or township) when it has one of its own, found in the FBI's 2023 and 2024 rosters or the USGS police station inventory, otherwise the sheriff of the ZIP's county; a rate needs at least six months of 2024 on file and is annualized from fewer than 12; the Ohio figures pool the 511 police departments and sheriff's offices with all 12 months on file · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service

Police and post office

3 stations within 3 miles, 4 within 8. Inside this ZIP: Bowling Green Police Division; Bowling Green State University Police Department; Wood County Sheriff's Office.

Nearest post office: Bowling Green Post Office, 0.8 mi; 2 inside this ZIP.

Townships without their own department are policed by the county sheriff, whose office may be at the county seat; the state highway patrol covers the roads. The inventory lists stations, not patrol zones. It also misses some departments and still lists some that have closed; the atlas adds the departments that reported at least six months of 2024 crimes to the FBI but had no station in it, and drops the closed and duplicate records it found.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (police stations, post offices), with closed and duplicate records dropped, wrong names corrected and departments it lacks added from OpenStreetMap and the Census Bureau geocoder (September 2026); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

Fire and EMS

2 stations within 3 miles, 8 within 8.

Inside this ZIP: Bowling Green Fire Division Station 1; Bowling Green Fire Division Station 2; Center Township Fire Department and 1 more.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations checked against the cities' station lists, September 2026. Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania stations near the line are included; Kentucky and West Virginia stations across the Ohio River are not. Straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Stations open or close without the inventory always catching up. · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations

Public library

1 library within 3 miles, 2 within 8.

Open

about 67 hours a week

Building

53,878 square feet

Wood County District Public Library

2 buildings, serves 60K people, 2.5 visits per resident a year, 604K items lent, 1,160 programs, $3.5M annual income

Inside this ZIP: Wood County District Public Library.

Museums: 3 inside this ZIP (National Construction Equipment Museum, Simpson Garden Park, Wood County Historical Society); nearest Simpson Garden Park, arboretum or botanical garden, Bowling Green, 1 mi away; 7 within 5 miles, 23 within 15 (IMLS 2018 directory: museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos).

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey fiscal 2024 (outlet and system files) and Museum Data Files 2018 (museums); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files

Grocery access

Distance

84% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 46% more than 1 mile

Without a car

42% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access; 8.5% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Poverty

25.6% of residents below the poverty line

SNAP stores

4 supermarkets or superstores and 1 grocery store inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 9 convenience stores, 5 other outlets (dollar, drug and discount stores); nearest supermarket or grocery store Kroger N-878 (super store), 0.7 mi from the ZIP's center; 5 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)

SNAP households

8% of households received SNAP benefits in the past year (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Setting

79% of residents in urban tracts, across 12 tracts, 2 flagged

A "supermarket" here is a large grocery store, supercenter or club; dollar stores and corner groceries do not count, and stores that opened since 2019 are missing from the distance figures; the SNAP store list is current. Rural distance flags mean a long drive, not necessarily hardship.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Access Research Atlas: 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 census tracts, 2019 supermarket list; ERS's name for this file since July 2026), tract values weighted into ZIPs by 2020 census block population; SNAP store counts from USDA Food and Nutrition Service retailer locations, 2026; SNAP and no-vehicle households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS

History

The history of this area has not been researched yet; the work runs county by county outward from Franklin County.

Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality and township, loaded on demand; Native American history per county and statewide from the same sources and the nations' own histories · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)

Historic places

• Floral Hall (building)
• U.S. Post Office (building)
• Wood County Courthouse and Jail (district)
• and 1 more

Place names (USGS): 16 named communities (Bowling Green, Fenton (historical), Sugar Ridge, Christy, Cloverdale and more); 2 named streams end here (Cuckle Creek, West Branch Tontogany Creek); 2 named lakes or reservoirs (University Pond, Williamsburg Lake). Federal maps carry these names; the communities include hamlets and crossroads that never incorporated.

Listing recognizes significance and brings review of federally funded projects; it does not restrict a private owner. Historic districts count once, at their center.

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places spatial data (point file); listings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary · National Register data · USGS GNIS

School district

• Bowling Green City88% of residentsCity school district
• Otsego Local7% of residentsLocal school district
• Eastwood Local4% of residentsLocal school district

ZIP codes and school districts do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

9 public schools inside this ZIP: Bowling Green High School (4 stars); Bowling Green Middle School (4 stars); Bowling Green Preschool; Conneaut Elementary School (5 stars) and 5 more. Nearest to the population center: Bowling Green High School (4 stars), 0.3 mi; 4 within a mile, 6 within 3.

1 private school inside this ZIP with 3 students in kindergarten through 12th grade: Northwest Ohio Montessori (3 students, nonsectarian, special program) (NCES Private School Survey 2023-24; the survey's student counts, here and per school, exclude prekindergarten).

Enrolled here: 4,232 students attend the 9 public schools inside this ZIP with 2023-24 enrollment on file; 15.7 students per teacher. 37% of the 3,425 students at the 6 schools reporting it qualify for free or reduced-price meals (3 did not report); 1 school use the community eligibility provision, which counts every student. (NCES)

Enrollment: 3,721 residents attend kindergarten through 12th grade, 24% of them at private schools; 7,268 are in college or graduate school (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Money, fiscal 2023: Bowling Green City took in $43 million, 22% from the state, 67% local and 11% federal, and spent $14,664 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 2,586 students, 63% of it on instruction; capital outlay $2.4 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).

Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 12% of Bowling Green City's school-age children below the poverty line (436 of 3,639 aged 5 to 17; SAIPE).

Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP, 2014 edition, via ODOT) · 2020 census blocks · public school locations from NCES EDGE, 2024-25 · enrollment and meals from the NCES Common Core of Data 2023-24 · private schools from the NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 · district finances from the Census F-33 survey, fiscal 2023 · child poverty from Census SAIPE 2024 · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)

School report card

Components

achievement 4 stars, progress 5 stars, gap closing 4 stars, early literacy 3 stars, graduation 4 stars, college and career readiness 4 stars

Achievement

performance index 82.6% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 90.6, 88.1 the year before)

Graduation

95.3% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 77.8% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness

Spending

$12,955 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide

Teachers

average salary $72,259, 11 years of experience, 69.2% with a master's degree, 13.1% in their first years of teaching

Enrollment

2,455 students in 2024-25

Three stars means the district meets state standards, five that it significantly exceeds them, one that it needs significant support. Achievement stars follow family income closely; the progress component (growth from year to year) is the fairer measure of teaching. Charter and private schools are not in the district figures.

Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024-2025 School Report Cards (district overview, achievement, expenditures per pupil and educator files), for the district where most of this ZIP's residents live · Ohio school report cards

Colleges

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus is a public university with 19,958 students over the 2023-24 year; published tuition and fees $14,081 a year in state, $22,070 out of state; 63% of a 3,285-student entering class graduated (six-year bachelor).

1 institution within 10 miles, 19 within 25.

Next nearest: Summit Salon Academy-Perrysburg (11.3 mi).

Universities, community colleges, career schools and private colleges all count; branch campuses appear only where IPEDS lists them separately. Graduation rates follow first-time full-time students for 150% of normal time.

Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 12-month enrollment 2023-24, tuition and fees 2023-24 and graduation rates for the 2017 entering cohort at four-year institutions and the 2020 cohort at two-year ones; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · NCES IPEDS

Local government

• Bowling Green (city)81% of residentsCity
• Plain Township, Wood County5% of residentsTownship
• Middleton Township, Wood County4% of residentsTownship
• Washington Township, Wood County4% of residentsTownship
• Center Township, Wood County4% of residentsTownship

ZIP codes and municipal and township boundaries do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

Ohio EPA grants 2025: 3 grants worth $172,699 went to Bowling Green Recycling Inc., Wood County Health Department, Wood County Solid Waste Management District in this ZIP (2 litter cleanup, 1 mosquito control).

Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries · 2020 census blocks · Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements map service) · Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)

Who represents this ZIP

U.S. Senate: Bernie Moreno (R), Jon Husted (R)

• Bob Latta RU.S. House OH-5Bowling Green · since 2007 · site
• Theresa Gavarone ROhio Senate 2Bowling Green · since 2019 · site
• Haraz N. Ghanbari ROhio House 75Perrysburg · since 2019 · site

Source: ODOT district boundaries · members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS