ZIP code 44221: Cuyahoga Falls

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

49.1 µg/L yearly mean in 2019, the last year in the file (limit 80); worst yearly mean 64.1, highest single sample 92.4; 132 samples from 2012 to 2019

HAA5

14.4 µg/L yearly mean in the last year sampled (limit 60); worst yearly mean 29.7, highest sample 63.8; 128 samples

Nitrate

not detected in 9 samples through 2019 (limit 10; nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants)

Arsenic

not detected in 3 samples (limit 10)

Radioactivity

highest results: combined radium 0 pCi/L (limit 5)

Solvents and fuels

benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride not detected in 3 samples

Bacteria

0 of 5,550 routine tap samples (0%) tested positive for total coliform in 2012 to 2019, 0 of 638 in 2019. Coliform itself is a warning sign; E. coli means sewage or manure reached the water

Farm chemicals

atrazine, alachlor not detected in 3 samples

Metals

barium in 2 of 3 samples, highest 62.1 µg/L (limit 2,000); chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, thallium not detected in 3 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 Cuyahoga Falls 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: none of the 29 PFAS detected

Ohio EPA 2020

1 plant tested (latest 2020-06): nothing detected for the six PFAS tested

Ohio EPA latest

1 plant sampled by Ohio EPA, most recently 2020-06 (Ohio EPA statewide sampling status map)

Firefighting foam: 10 fire departments or other holders in Summit County registered 1,900 gallons of PFAS-based AFFF foam with Ohio EPA, 605 gallons in opened containers; the state is collecting it for disposal so it is never sprayed again.

Lithium: found in 1 of 2 UCMR 5 samples at Cuyahoga Falls City, highest 10.4 µg/L, last sampled 2023. 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 OH7701012; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS

Lead at the tap

Latest period

0 ppb in the sampling period ending 2024-12

Highest since 2016

5 ppb (2018-12); never above 10 ppb in 4 periods

Service lines

17,183 inventoried: 1,014 lead, 57 galvanized needing replacement, 3,067 unknown, 13,045 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: 59% of the homes here were built before 1960 and 23% before 1940, when lead service lines, lead solder and lead paint were common; 81% 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 Cuyahoga Falls City (OH7701012), 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: corrosion control, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, ion-exchange softening, sand or media filtration.

Measured fluoride: 0.58 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (below the 0.7 mg/L target); samples ran from 0.5 to 0.8 mg/L across 3 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 98% of Summit 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 Cuyahoga Falls City (OH7701012); 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

Cuyahoga Falls City draws groundwater, which Ohio does not monitor for algal toxins; blooms are a surface-water problem.

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 Brecksville Thin Upland Aquifer (thin upland setting); wells there yield < 5 gallons a minute, deposits < 25 ft thick

Bedrock

Middle and Lower Pottsville formations, includes Massillon and Sharon Sandstones, yielding 5 - 25 gpm to a well

Setting

Sandstone; water table 5-15 ft down, 4-7 in/yr recharge, silt loam soil (hydrogeologic setting 7Ad); pesticide index 158

Well logs

248 drilled wells on file (8.4 per 1,000 residents), median 48 ft deep, 15 gallons a minute median test yield, water 26 ft down

Aquifers

61% of wells in bedrock, 39% in sand, gravel and other unconsolidated material; typical well drilled 1994, 115 since 2000; uses: Domestic 102, Monitor 85

Wellhead protection

5% of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA source water protection areas for 1 public water system (Cuyahoga Falls City PWS), 3% inside inner management zones, the ground a well draws from within a year; the largest, Cuyahoga Falls City PWS, is rated high susceptibility in a buried valley setting

Geology

95% of the ZIP is a sensitive geologic setting, where thin or sandy cover leaves the aquifer open to what soaks in from the surface; nearest verified sinkhole 12.9 mi away (Ohio EPA and ODNR Geological Survey)

Injection wells

227 Class V injection wells on Ohio EPA's books inside this ZIP (55 active): 226 cleanup injection, 1 vehicle waste; these put fluids underground above or into drinking water aquifers

Water table

SU-7 OH monitoring well (ODNR), 1.3 mi away: water 10.8 ft below ground on 2026-07-08; averaged 17.5 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 14.1 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 3.4 ft higher; range 0.1 to 31.5 ft over 4,030 readings since 2015

Nitrate risk

EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Fish Creek-Cuyahoga River subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 31% if it draws on groundwater and 48% 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 Hudson Water Plant (Summit County), 6.4 mi away: 141 ft deep in sand and gravel (Cuyahoga Buried Vly aquifer); wells there yield 100 to 500 gallons a minute; sampled on the standard cycle. 6 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

no karst-prone bedrock under the population center; no mapped sinkhole inside the ZIP; nearest verified sinkhole 12.9 mi from the center

Wellhead protection

5% of the ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA source water protection areas for 1 public water system (Cuyahoga Falls City PWS), 3% inside inner management zones, the ground a well draws from within a year; the largest, Cuyahoga Falls City PWS, is rated high susceptibility in a buried valley setting

Vulnerability index

DRASTIC 136 (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

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

Compliance

0 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; no open violation; 1 formal enforcement action in 5 years

Combined sewer overflows: nearest 2.2 mi away, 2 within 3 miles, permitted to Akron Water Reclamation Facility. In heavy rain these release untreated sewage mixed with storm water.

Other discharge permits: 1 facility inside this ZIP other than sewage plants holds a Clean Water Act permit (factories, water plants, quarries, package plants, storm water).

Sludge source: nearest Fishcreek WWTP No 25, 3.8 mi away (a major plant); 4 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).

State water loans: 3 projects inside this ZIP have borrowed $2.0 million from Ohio EPA's revolving loan funds since 2011 (2 drinking water projects for $963,895). Largest: Cuyahoga Falls Dams Removal (Cuyahoga Falls, 2011, $1.0 million); latest: WTP Sand Filter Improvements (Cuyahoga Falls, 2024, $871,574). Below-market loans are how most Ohio treatment plants and water mains get rebuilt.

Stormwater: all of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, mostly the City of Cuyahoga Falls storm sewer system (6 permit holders overlap the ZIP); 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). 1 site with an address in this ZIP holds its own industrial stormwater permit (Republic Waste Services Hauling Of Ohio LLC) (EPA Facility Finder).

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 100% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 100%, fish consumption 79%

Causes listed

bacteria (pathogens) (100%), habitat damage (100%), altered hydrology (100%)

Cleanup plans

100% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget

Watersheds here: Fish Creek-Cuyahoga River (not supporting); Mud Brook (not supporting).

Fish advisories (Ohio EPA): Cuyahoga River (Ohio Edison Dam Pool to mouth (Lake Erie)): brown bullhead one meal a month, channel catfish one meal a month, common carp one meal a month and 5 more species (PCBs, mercury); Cuyahoga River (State Route 87 (Russell Park) to Ohio Edison Dam Pool): black crappie one meal a month, smallmouth bass one meal a month (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): Kelsey Brook At Cuyahoga Falls @ Footbridge In Kennedy Park on the Kelsey Creek At Cuyahoga Falls @ Intersection Kelsey/Rainier, 1.1 mi away, draining 3 square miles: non attainment of its warmwater use; fish IBI 42 of 60 (2018); bugs rated fair; habitat QHEI 72.5 of 100. 4 assessed sites inside the ZIP, 13 within 3 miles, 86 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.

Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): 4.2 miles of designated streams cross this ZIP: 4.2 mi warmwater habitat. Nearest specially protected stream: the Cuyahoga river (Sand run (RM 39.12) to Rockside Road (RM 13.13)), 4.3 mi away, an Outstanding State Water for recreation. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.

Proposed for 2026: the nearest reach Ohio EPA proposes to add to the antidegradation tiers is the Cuyahoga River (Eldon Russel park (RM 82.1) to lake Rockwell (RM 61.4)), 10.6 mi away, as Outstanding State Water for recreation.

PFAS in the river (Ohio EPA large river survey): at Cuyahoga R. At Jaite @ Highland Rd., 11.3 mi away, the water carried 114.93 ng/L of total PFAS (PFOA 11, PFOS 4.6 ng/L); fish fillets held 66.18 ng/g in bluegill (PFOS 26 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 Summit County used about 10 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 25 kg per square mile, 74th of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: glyphosate 4 t, atrazine 1 t, metolachlor 1 t, acetochlor 796 kg, simazine 397 kg. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains; this county used 1 t of it.

Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 413 farms work 15,108 acres of Summit County, with 2.5% of its land in cropland, 37 acres to a farm. 782 cattle, 133 hogs, 4,710 laying hens, 6,294 broilers, 305 turkeys; 939 acres of corn and 1,427 of soybeans. Sales $13 million, 25% 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

• Cuyahoga100% of residentsDrains to Lake Erie

H2Ohio: nearest project Schafer's Landing (Riverwood), inland flow-through and floodplain wetland, funded 2022, completed, 4.4 mi away: This project restored 45 acres of native wetland, floodplain, and upland habitat in the Cuyahoga River watershed. Over one mile of stream and riparian habitat a...; 1 within 5 miles, 8 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.

Watershed grants: 2 state or federal runoff projects inside this ZIP (1 SWIF, 1 Section 319); nearest "Kelsey Creek Stream Restoration" by City of Cuyahoga Falls (stream restoration, SWIF), 1.1 mi away; 20 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA project lists: Section 319 and GLRI through fiscal 2023, SWIF through 2017).

Road salt: 1 state chloride-reduction grant inside this ZIP; nearest went to City of Cuyahoga Falls (equipment, 2024-2025), 0.3 mi away; 3 in Summit County. H2Ohio pays for brine makers, calibrated spreaders and covered salt barns so less chloride reaches streams and wells.

Lake level: Lake Erie at Cleveland, 29 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 574.6 ft in June 2019, when high water ate at bluffs and flooded marinas; the low since 1990 was 569.9 ft in January 2001 (NOAA).

The population center sits in the Fish Creek-Cuyahoga River subwatershed; its water runs on through Boston Run-Cuyahoga River, then Willow Lake-Cuyahoga River, then Village of Independence-Cuyahoga River.

In 2015 Summit County drew about 23 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 11.1 million for public supply (64% from wells, 434,100 people served at 19 gallons a person a day at home), 2.8 million for industry, 0.7 million for irrigation; 107,900 residents drew their own well water.

EnviroAtlas, Fish Creek-Cuyahoga River: no land in the Conservation Reserve Program; 86 acres of grain crops; 53 miles of streams (1.5 per square mile); water use of 4.7 million gallons a day for homes; 38.2 inches of rain and snow a year; 11.2 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 0.1 kg per hectare a year as manure and 1.9 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 0% of the farmland sits on drained hydric soils; potentially restorable wetlands on farmland cover 1% of the subwatershed; 27% of the land is paved or roofed; 40% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).

Stream permits: none of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, so stream crossings and fills here can use the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits under Ohio EPA's standing 401 certification (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

$63,342 median

Income spread

16% of households earn under $25,000 a year, 27% $100,000 or more and 2.7% $200,000 or more

Rent

$1,028 a month, median gross

Owner-occupied

62% of 13,321 occupied homes; 70% of owners carry a mortgage

Typical home built

1956

Value spread

7% of owner-occupied homes are worth under $100,000 and 0.4% $500,000 or more; income per person $36,041 a year

Moved in

the typical owner moved in in 2009, the typical renter in 2019

Median age

37.0 years

Commute

21 minutes each way on average, 8% of commuters travel 45 minutes or more, 11% work from home

Housing stock

65% single-family detached, 21% in buildings of 5 or more units; 1.8% of homes are crowded (more than one person a room)

Vacancy

5.1% of 14,038 housing units are vacant: 2.2% for rent, 1.5% for sale, 0.5% held for seasonal or occasional use, 0.9% other, such as homes held off the market, in probate or abandoned

Owner costs

21% of owners with a mortgage and 7% of owners without one spend 30% or more of income on housing

Evictions

3.15 eviction filings a year per 100 renter households in 2016 to 2018, 2.07 ending in a judgement (about 164 filings a year; Eviction Lab)

Fair market rent

$1,380 a month for a two-bedroom (one-bedroom $1,070, three-bedroom $1,680): HUD's fiscal 2026 small-area fair market rent, the benchmark for housing vouchers in the Akron MSA area

Tax returns

15,900 returns for 2022 averaging $53,431 of adjusted gross income; 25% reported under $25,000 and 1% reported $200,000 or more; 13% claimed the earned income credit and 24% were filed by people 60 or older (IRS)

Redlining

70% of this ZIP's area was graded on the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation's late-1930s Akron map: 3% grade A (best), 31% grade B (still desirable), 33% grade C (declining), 4% grade D (hazardous, the redlined areas)

Subsidized housing

1 public housing development with 185 units (Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority); 1 tax-credit (LIHTC) property with 40 low-income units, newest placed in service 2011; 6 HUD-assisted multifamily properties with 291 assisted units (Section 8 and similar contracts). Housing vouchers used in private rentals are not counted

Banks

9 full-service bank branches from 8 banks inside this ZIP (FDIC); 1 credit union branch from 1 credit union (NCUA)

Strain

39% of renters pay 30% or more of income in rent; 5.7% of households have no vehicle; the median renter spends 25.8% of income on rent; the median owner with a mortgage spends 19.1% 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

OGRIP's copy of Summit County's parcels carries no land-use class (and no addresses), so the atlas cannot tell which parcels are houses until the Summit County Auditor's own records are added.

Source: county parcel records joined by the atlas · 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

4,021 single-family houses, 2,302 units in buildings of five or more, 811 in duplexes and small buildings

Value

$2.1 billion of construction at the value declared on the permits

By year

2016: 434, 2017: 440, 2018: 485, 2019: 366, 2020: 385, 2021: 642, 2022: 2,565, 2023: 539, 2024: 887, 2025: 391, 2026 through July: 159

Caveat

1 of the ten years had fewer than 12 months reported by the permit office; the Census Bureau estimates the missing months, so those counts are partly or wholly imputed

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

+48% from 2020 to 2025

Last year

+4% in 2025

Since 2000

prices stand at 1.9 times their 2000 level

Series

tracked since 1976

Zillow's typical home value here is $201K (2026-07), up 5% over the year, up 33% over five years and up 88% over ten. Typical asking rent $1,367 a month (2026-07), up 9% over the year.

On the market (Realtor.com, August 2026): median asking price $218,000 (up 1.4% in a year), $164 per square foot for a typical 1,328 sq ft listing; 35 active listings, 28 new this month; listings spend a median 31 days on the market (up 22% from a year earlier); 24% of listings have cut their price.

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

Cuyahoga Falls City

36.6 effective mills (79.8 gross); $2,562 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 25.2, bonds 2.9, improvements 0.3, emergency 3.3, inside millage 4.9.

Municipal income tax

Cuyahoga Falls 2%. Charged on wages and business profits where you work and, after credits, where you live.

School district income tax

Cuyahoga Falls City none. About a third of Ohio districts levy one.

Sales tax

6.75% combined rate in Summit 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

• Cuyahoga Falls Electric System municipal100% of residentsCuyahoga Falls, Summit County

Cuyahoga Falls Electric System outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 76 minutes (44 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 0.8 interruptions a year.

Cuyahoga Falls Electric System residential price, 2024: 13.02 cents per kWh, about $80 a month for the average home across 24,349 residential customers (EIA-861).

Cuyahoga Falls Electric System solar and meters, 2024: 27 customers run net-metered solar (650 kW, 22 of them homes); 0% of its 26,783 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 100% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Energy burden: households here spend an average 2.4% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $1,705 a year against $70,344 of income); the 41% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 5.0%, and 14% 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

79% of the 13,321 homes here heat with utility gas.

Utility gas 79%Electricity 19%Propane or LP 2%Oil, wood, other 1%

• Enbridge Gas Ohio regulated utility100% of residents, main companyEnbridge Inc.

Pipes under the street: Enbridge Gas Ohio reported 19,922 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 43% plastic and 17.8% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 4,023 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.

PUCO lists 4 companies operating in Summit County: Columbia Gas of Ohio, Enbridge Gas Ohio, Knox Energy Cooperative Association, Inc., Northeast Ohio Natural Gas Corporation.

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: Cuyahoga Falls 1, 0.2 mi (oil, 14 MW).

4 plants within 10 miles totalling 32 MW: 1 oil (14 MW), 1 gas (12 MW), 1 solar (4 MW), 1 biomass (2 MW). Inside this ZIP: Cuyahoga Falls 1 (oil, 14 MW).

Solar: IGS AKC1, 4 MW AC (2023), 9 acres, 8.4 mi away; 1 utility-scale solar farm within 15 miles.

Nuclear: Perry Nuclear Power Plant (1,240 MW) is 48.9 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

No transmission line crosses this ZIP.

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

• AT&T Ohio100% of residentsIncumbent local exchange carrier

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 83% of locations, cable 100%; a year earlier 100% were served.

Of 13,321 households, 80% subscribe to cable, fiber or DSL, 10% rely on a cellular plan only, and 6% have no internet at home.

Measured by Ookla speed tests, April to June 2025: typical fixed download 405.4 Mbps, upload 118.1 Mbps, 12 ms latency, across 1,066 tests from up to 333 devices in 73 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 100%
• T-Mobile4G 100% · 5G 100%
• Verizon4G 100% · 5G 100%

Registered towers: 1 antenna structure registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 18 within 3 miles of its center; the tallest inside is a 190-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 467.1 Mbps, upload 54.8 Mbps, latency 24 ms over 205 tests from up to 92 devices in 42 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

2 public stations inside this ZIP with 8 Level 2 and 0 DC fast ports; the nearest of any kind is CITY OF CF CUYAHOGA FALLS, 0.2 mi. 24 stations within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 1 with DC fast charging.

Networks here: ChargePoint (1), Tesla Destination (1).

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

120 stops inside this ZIP: Akron METRO (120).

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

112 intersections per square mile, a fine-grained grid

Transit

the EPA's 2020 transit file lacks this area's bus system, so it puts nobody here within three-quarters of a mile of a stop; the Transit card finds 96% of residents within half a mile of one

Mix of uses

employment mix 0.50 and mix of homes and job types 0.49 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied

Car-free households

5.7% 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. Here the transit third of the score sits at its minimum because the EPA held no feed for this area's buses; counting them would likely add several points to the score and could move this ZIP up a band.

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

3 with gates; railroads: CSX (2), Metro Regional Transit Authority (Akron) (1). Busiest crossing: 21 trains a day reported; fastest line 50 mph.

Collisions: 6 crossing incidents reported to the FRA inside this ZIP since 2010, the latest in 2025; most at Broad Blvd in Cuyahoga Falls (4).

Train accidents: 1 rail equipment accident inside this ZIP since 2010; $22,581 in damage. Latest: 2019, hwy-rail crossing (CSX Transportation); the most common cause here is highway user inattentiveness.

Summit County has logged 32 rail accidents since 2010, 22 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 1974; oldest 1970, Portage Trail over CSX & Aband RR & Cuy R

Busiest

SR 8 over Broad Blvd CR-605, 87,532 vehicles a day (2015 count)

Owners

state 11, city 4

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

8,493 a day on SR 8, 9% of its traffic

Driving

about 625K vehicle-miles a day on the 243 counted segments inside the ZIP; the typical segment carries 6,351 vehicles

Freeway volumes

16 segments carry 50,000 or more a day

Busiest local road

city street 5409, 26,743 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: 7 people died in 7 crashes inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (3 pedestrians, 1 motorcyclist); 0 involved a drinking driver and 3 happened in the dark; most on SR-8 (3). That is 4.7 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

Kent State University (1G3), Kent, 3.3 mi, public use

Amtrak

Alliance station, 25.1 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

20% of tests at or above EPA's 4 pCi/L action level · median 2.0 · highest 52.2

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

5.0% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain, and another 0.3% is in the 0.2% (500-year) zone. Zones mapped here: AE.

Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 5.5 inches in 24 hours (2.6 in a single hour, 4.2 in six); a 2-year storm 2.4, 10-year 3.5, 25-year 4.2, 500-year 7.2 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: Cuyahoga River at Old Portage OH, 3.6 mi away, draining 404 square miles. Record flow 6,500 cubic feet a second at a stage of 11.54 ft on 1959-01-21; the highest since 2016 was 5,030 on 2019-06-17 (USGS, 91 annual peaks, 1922 to 2024).

20 federal flood insurance policies are in force in this ZIP, covering $4.8 million of buildings; 45% of them are in a mapped high-risk zone; the typical policy costs $568 a year (about 1% of households).

8 federal flood insurance claims from this ZIP since 1978, 3 since 2010, paying about $8,334 in all; the worst year was 2014 with 2 claims; 43% of claims came from outside the mapped high-risk zone.

Community status: Cuyahoga Falls takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 04/19/16. Summit County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 04/19/16.

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

• Hail86
• Ice storm67

FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $4.9 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 34, tornado 45, winter weather 64.

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

52.3°F average; typical January low 21°, July high 85°

Hot and cold days

14 days a year reach 90°F; 118 nights fall below freezing, 4 below 0°F; 38 days never climb above freezing

Rain and snow

39.3 inches of precipitation on 91 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 45 inches of snow on 19 days with an inch or more, snow on the ground 52 days

Degree days

5,538 heating, 934 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill

Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Summit County has spent 19 weeks in moderate drought or worse, and 59 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was severe drought in 2002/09; 6% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.

Long run (NOAA, Summit County): the average year ran 51.2 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 48.4 °F over 1901 to 1930, 2.8 °F warmer (2.5 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 54.2 °F, and 2025 came in at 50.5 °F. Precipitation averaged 39.2 inches a year lately against 35.9 a century ago, 9% more; the wettest year was 2011 with 57.9 inches, and 2025 brought 36.9. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.

Stations: Akron Fulton International Airport (7.1 mi, temperature); Cuyahoga Falls 1.1 ESE (2.1 mi, precipitation); Ravenna 2 S (10 mi, snowfall; 24 years of snowfall record). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them.

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 21.3 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)

Ozone

66 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at North HS, 2.7 mi away (standard 70)

Summit County AQI, 2025

232 good days, 130 moderate, 3 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse of the 365 days indexed; peak 126, median 44

Summit County AQI, 2026 so far

104 good days, 47 moderate and 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse in the 151 days indexed through May 31; peak 77 (PM2.5)

Air toxics

30 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Summit County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (17) and carbon tetrachloride (3)

Permitted sources

28 permitted air sources inside this ZIP under the Clean Air Act, 2 synthetic minor; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Nearest major source The University of Akron in Akron, 4.3 mi. EPA classes this area as ozone nonattainment or maintenance (5 permanently closed sources also on file) (EPA ECHO)

Air standards

Summit County is a maintenance area for ozone (2008) (Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, OH, redesignated 2017), ozone (2015) (Cleveland, OH, redesignated 2026), fine particulate (1997) (Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, OH, redesignated 2013), fine particulate (2006) (Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, OH, redesignated 2013), meaning it once failed that standard and must keep a plan to stay clean (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

10 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).

184 EPA-registered facilities of all kinds in this ZIP: 4 brownfield sites in the cleanup program (1659 S. Front Street, 1701 South Front Street, 1745 South Front Street), 86 hazardous-waste handlers, 36 with air permits, 8 with water discharge permits.

Nearest landfill: Cuyahoga Street Landfill, 3.4 mi from the center, municipal solid waste landfill. Ohio EPA's list includes closed and historic dumps.

State cleanup program: 4 sites inside this ZIP (CSXT Spill; Cuyahoga Falls River Corridor Areas 1 & 4; Cuyahoga Falls Sanitary Service and more), 12 within 3 miles of the population center; the nearest is CSXT Spill, 0.4 mi from the center, emergency response.

Voluntary cleanups: 2 properties inside this ZIP hold an Ohio EPA covenant not to sue after a Voluntary Action Program cleanup; 5 such properties within 3 miles of the population center, nearest Cuyahoga River Corridor (High Bridge Glens), 0.7 mi. These are former industrial and commercial sites certified clean enough to reuse.

Solid waste: no licensed solid waste facility inside this ZIP; nearest City of Akron - Street Cleaning (compost site), 3.7 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): 36 active RCRA handlers inside this ZIP; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Nearest treatment, storage or disposal facility: Reworld Bedford LLC in Bedford, 16.4 mi. Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.

Underground tanks: 15 sites with 43 registered underground storage tanks in use (110 more tanks closed over the years); 78 leaking-tank releases on record, 6 open at the time, 9 inside a drinking-water source protection area; 5 reported since 2015, the latest in 2018 (EPA UST Finder, Ohio records as of 2018-2019).

Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is Slaughter's Tire Service, Akron, 4.6 mi away (2 within 15 mi); the nearest household battery drop-off is The Home Depot, Cuyahoga Falls, 1.2 mi away (2 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

34 lb to the air, 0 lb to surface water, 0 lb to land or underground injection; another 7,606 lb was shipped off site for disposal or release

Chemicals

Zinc compounds 10 lb, Chromium 5 lb, Copper 5 lb

Carcinogens

5 lb of the on-site releases were chemicals EPA lists as carcinogens

Facilities

Falls Stamping & Welding (Transportation Equipment): 20 lb, mostly Chromium; Polymerics Inc (Plastics and Rubber): 14 lb, mostly Zinc compounds

Trend

down from 35 lb on site in 2020

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: Gorge Plant Dam, 1.5 mi, condition poor (water supply, 57 ft high, 1K acre-feet, built 1912, on Cuyahoga River, public utility owned).

No inventoried dam sits inside this ZIP.

"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 1992-07-12, 8 mi track.

17 federal declarations for Summit County since Ohio's first in 1956 (12 major disasters): severe storm 6, tornado 3, flood 2. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).

4 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970, the largest M3.7 Ohio in 2007.

Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Summit County): 20 tornado warnings (2017: 3, 2018: 1, 2019: 3, 2020: 1, 2021: 5, 2022: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 3, 2026: 1), 215 severe thunderstorm warnings, 31 flash flood warnings, 33 flood warnings and 108 flood advisories, 12 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 19 heat warnings or advisories, 6 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 7 snow squall warnings; 901 products in all.

Mitigation grants (FEMA): 21 hazard mitigation projects in Summit County since 2003, worth $17.8 million ($14.6 million federal), covering 80 properties; mostly property buyouts, drainage works. Largest: drainage works for Barberton, $9.5 million (fiscal 2020).

Mitigated properties: FEMA money has treated 5 properties in this ZIP in 2004: 5 bought out and demolished; $286,047 paid. Buyouts turn repeatedly flooded lots into permanent open space.

Disaster aid to households: 374 households in this ZIP registered with FEMA after 3 declared disasters; 250 were approved for $483,655 of housing and other-needs help. Registrations by event: tornadoes, flooding, severe storms and high winds (2003): 314; severe storms and flooding (2004): 44; COVID-19 pandemic (2020): 16.

200 severe weather reports for Summit County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 133 damaging thunderstorm wind, 41 hail, 18 flash floods, 5 tornadoes. Largest hail 2.5 in (Mar 28, 2020); strongest measured gust 73 mph (May 25, 2019); 1 death and 1 injury; about $15.3 million in reported damage, the costliest being damaging thunderstorm wind on Nov 5, 2017 ($7.5M). Zone-wide advisories add 10 winter storms, 10 high wind, 6 winter weather.

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

oils and hydraulic fluid (3), abandoned drums and containers (1), diesel and fuel oil (1)

Largest

about 55 gallons of orphan drum(s) in 2025, Cuyahoga Falls

Reached water

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

By year

2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 4, 2025: 1, 2026: 0

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, 5 plugged or abandoned, the rest drilled but idle, gas storage, orphan, expired permits or unknown

Operators

City Of Cuyahoga Falls (4 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

mine ST-OGS-007

coal, partly mapped, 9 acres inside the ZIP

mine ST-OGS-006

coal, partly mapped, 7 acres inside the ZIP

Pleasant View

coal, mapped, 2 acres inside the ZIP

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 Cargil Salt (salt, gypsum, peat, Cargill Salt, 653,335 tons sold), 7.5 mi away in Summit 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

Chili-Urban land complex, undulating; Chili makes up 70% of the unit, 4% slope

Water

well drained; flooding none, ponding none

Septic

Very limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule

Basements

Not limited for dwellings with basements

Farmland

Not prime farmland

Elevation

1,030 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

Brookledge Golf Course

private park, 100 acres inside the ZIP

Water Works Park

local park, 68 acres inside the ZIP

Nearest state park: Portage Lakes State Park, 9.1 mi.

Protected land: 7.7% of this ZIP (319 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): 225 acres local, 94 acres private. Largest: Brookledge Golf Course (private owner), 100 acres; Water Works Park (city), 68 acres; Gorge Metro Park (county), 50 acres. 8% of the ZIP is protected land open to the public.

Trails: no built named trail crosses this ZIP; 3.1 miles more are proposed or planned; nearest is the MetroParks Serving Summit County Bike & Hike Trail, 1.2 mi from the ZIP's center (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: State Mill at Portage Lakes State Park, North Reservoir, 10.5 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Fishing Access at Wingfoot Lake State Park, 10.3 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at Portage Lakes State Park, 10.6 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Campground/Campsite at West Branch State Park, 18.8 mi (0 within 5 miles).

Lake Erie and tributary access: 6 public access sites inside this ZIP; nearest river access site River Front Park on Cuyahoga River (City of Cuyahoga Falls), 0.4 mi away; 21 within 5 miles, 46 within 15. Nearest swimming beach (inland): Hinckley Reservation on EBr Rocky River, Hinckley Lake, 13.1 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

23 acres pond, 9 acres forested/shrub wetland, 4 acres emergent wetland. Largest single wetland: 4 acres of freshwater forested/shrub wetland.

High-quality wetlands: nearest is Cascade Valley Park (Summit County Metro Parks), 6 acres, 2.4 mi away; 17 within 10 miles.

Mitigation sites: nearest Akron General Health and Wellness Center, 3.2 mi away (a permittee-responsible site under an environmental covenant); 9 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.

Assessed wetland: nearest Steels Corners, a cattail marsh of 32.3 acres, 2.6 mi away: ORAM 30 of 100 (category 2), plant community index 19 of 100 (surveyed 2001); 31 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

96%: 11% high intensity (downtown blocks, big-box lots), 29% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 46% low (houses on larger lots), 10% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)

Farmland

0.2%: 0.0% row crops, 0.2% pasture and hay

Forest

2.3%

Water and wetland

1.1% open water, 0.6% wetland

Paved and roofed

45% 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

16% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy

Area

6.4 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

31.9% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 10.7% a graduate degree; 36.6% stopped at high school or earlier

Ages

17.1% under 18, 17.1% 65 or older

Race and origin

84.3% white, 4.3% Black, 2.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.2% Asian, 3% other or two or more races

Born abroad

6.6% of residents (1,881 people); largest countries of birth: Bhutan (406), Nepal (207), China (178)

Veterans

5.6% of adults

Households

2.1 people per household on average; 37% of households are one person living alone, 36% married couples

Who lives here

23% of households include children, 27% someone 65 or over and 14.2% are a senior living alone; of people 15 and over, 43% are married, 37% never married, 14% divorced and 6% widowed

Poverty

10.5% of residents live below the poverty line, 12.8% of children and 10.3% of people 65 and over; the Gini index of income inequality is 0.38 (0 would mean every household earns the same, 1 that one household earns everything). County-wide, the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate is 13.3% (18.0% of children) with a median household income of $70,449 (SAIPE)

Ancestry

most often reported: German 30%, Irish 20%, English 11%

Movers

14.7% of residents lived somewhere else a year earlier, 1.3% in another state

Language

1.7% of households speak limited English

Group quarters

201 of the 29,601 people counted here in 2020 (0.7%) lived in group quarters: 171 in nursing facilities, 30 in other group housing such as shelters, group homes and worker dormitories (2020 Census)

Moving

19,167 people moved into Summit County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 19,417 moved out (net −250, 424,447 stayed put); most arrivals came from Cuyahoga, OH (3,517), Stark, OH (2,471), Portage, OH (2,287); most leavers went to Stark, OH (2,701), Cuyahoga, OH (2,621), Portage, OH (2,396) (IRS)

Metro or rural

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

Nonprofits

127 tax-exempt organizations registered to addresses in this ZIP, 9 of them reporting $1 million or more in income; 82% are 501(c)(3) charities and 23% churches or religious groups; largest: American Foundation Corporation ($18 million), Chapel Hill Christian School ($5 million), Summit Housing Development Corporation ($4 million) (IRS)

County growth

Summit County went from 540,429 people in April 2020 to 538,376 in July 2025 (-0.4%): 26,710 births, 32,888 deaths and a net +4,942 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 972 moved in from elsewhere in the U.S. and 1,323 arrived from abroad (Census estimates)

Since 1900

First counted in 1840 with 22,560 people and 27,485 by 1850, Summit County counted 71,715 people in 1900, 410,032 in 1950, 553,371 in 1970, 542,849 in 2000 and 540,429 in 2020; it peaked at 553,371 in 1970 (7.5 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)

Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as the core of a metropolitan area (rural-urban commuting area code 1 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: Hotels and restaurants 2,245, Retail 2,203, Health care and social assistance 1,624. 39% of local jobs pay over $3,333 a month, and 56% of residents' jobs do.

Businesses: 593 establishments with 8,612 employees and $344 million a year in payroll in 2023, at least 14 of them with 100 or more workers; most common: retail (100), restaurants and hotels (87), other services (75), health care and social assistance (74) (ZIP Business Patterns).

Workplace safety (OSHA): 18 inspections of workplaces in this ZIP since 2020 (4 after complaints, 9 planned, 4 on referrals); most inspected: Falls Stamping And Welding Company (2), Armando Macario Llc (1), Falls Stamping & Welding (1). No worker death investigated since 2015; 1 hospitalisation.

County labor market: Summit County's unemployment rate was 3.6% in July 2026 (5.1% a year earlier), with 272,523 people in the labor force and 9,830 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $1,371 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 4.5% on the year) to 254,527 workers at 15,566 establishments, employment down 1.2%; the largest private sectors are health care and social assistance (48,805 jobs, $1,347 a week), retail (25,360 jobs, $820 a week), manufacturing (25,288 jobs, $1,460 a week). (BLS)

Working-age residents: 71.1% of people 16 and over here are in the labor force, and 4.2% of the civilian labor force was unemployed, averaged over 2020 to 2024 (Census ACS). Residents' most common occupations: office and administrative support 14%, management and business 11%, health practitioners 9%; 7% are self-employed and 11% work for a government.

Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $437 million in contracts performed in Summit County ($809 a resident) and $843 million in grants ($1,560 a resident), plus $491,000 in loan guarantees and loans and $4.1 billion in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).

County economy: Summit County produced $31.7 billion of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, up 2.2% since 2019); personal income came to $67,711 a person in 2024, 11th of Ohio's 88 counties and up 29% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).

County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Summit County is a metro county with a nonspecialized economy, with none of the ERS distress flags.

Opportunity zone: 12% 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: 78% drive alone, 8.8% carpool, 0.2% transit, 0.9% walk, 0% bike, 11.3% work from home (ACS).

Where residents work: 8% inside this ZIP; 5% in Cuyahoga Falls (44223), 5% in Stow (44224), 4% in Hudson (44236) (shares of the 14,886 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

0.82% of those children were in jail or prison on census day 2010

Coverage

100% 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

52nd percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance

Household characteristics

50th: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English

Racial and ethnic minority status

51st

Housing and transportation

54th: 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 36.4%, no leisure-time physical activity 25.0%

Chronic conditions

diabetes 11.8%, high blood pressure 33.7%, COPD 7.5%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 8.5%

Habits

current smoking 15.0%, binge drinking 16.7%, short sleep 38.3%

Mind

depression 27.6%, frequent mental distress 18.3%, feeling lonely 34.3%

Access

uninsured under 65 7.4%, yearly checkup 79.2%, dental visit 63.8%

Hardship

any disability 29.8%, food insecurity 13.0%

Heart and lungs

current asthma 11.2%, coronary heart disease 6.2%, stroke 3.2%, arthritis 28.6%

Keeping up

77.4% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 84.8% had a cholesterol check in 5 years

Social needs

housing insecurity 10.7%, no reliable transportation 7.3%, utility shut-off threat 7.6%, lacking emotional support 20.6%

Provider shortage

none for primary care; none for dental; 100% live in an area HRSA designates a mental health shortage area for its low-income residents (score 14 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)

Coverage (Census)

7.1% of residents have no health insurance (2.7% of children); 15% are on Medicaid and 57% have coverage through an employer

Disability (Census)

14.8% of residents report a disability, 39% of those 65 and over

County (County Health Rankings 2025): Summit County sits in health group 5 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 4 for community conditions. Premature death 9,664 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 1,024 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 264 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 1,484 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 2,743 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 95.9 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 15.3 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths 6.6 (Ohio 7.0) per 1,000 births; teen births 16.5 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 19.7 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 9.4 (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: 128 deaths in the 12 months ending December 2025 (138 a year earlier, 258 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending June 2023), about 23.9 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide (CDC provisional counts).

Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Summit County records 473.6 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 3,414 cases a year, with the rate rising 0.7% a year; cancer deaths 159.4 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), falling. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 61.1 (63.6), colorectal 35.3 (38.4), female breast 133.7 (133), prostate 119.6 (120.8), bladder 21.6 (21.8), leukemia 13.5 (13).

Medicare: 124,203 people in Summit County were on Medicare in 2025 (23% of residents): 110,873 aged 65 or over and 13,330 younger people with disabilities. 64% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 17% also had Medicaid and 87% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 8% 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

245 beds · no trauma designation listed · 4 general or critical-access hospitals within 10 miles, 16 within 25.

Medicare rating: ★★★☆☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 160 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)

Patients' verdict: 78% would definitely recommend it, 72% rated their stay 9 or 10 out of 10 (★★★★☆ patient-experience rating, 332 surveys).

Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 10.5% (about the national rate), pneumonia 13.3% (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: nearest ICHC - Akron, Akron, 4.3 mi away; 0 within 3 miles, 9 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.

Veterans: nearest VA site is Summit County VA Clinic, Akron (other outpatient site), 5.7 mi away; 2 VA sites within 10 miles, 9 within 25.

Providers: 749 active health care providers list a practice address in this ZIP: 74 physicians, 38 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, 33 dentists, 190 mental health professionals, 10 pharmacies, 3 hospitals, 3 nursing or assisted-living facilities, 29 home health or hospice agencies; most common physician specialties: Internal Medicine (14), Family Medicine (12), Orthopaedic Surgery (8) (NPPES registry, August 2026).

Dialysis: 2 centers inside this ZIP, nearest Fresenius Kidney Care Cuyahoga Falls, Cuyahoga Falls, 0.4 mi away, 13 stations, Medicare ★☆☆☆☆ (Fresenius Medical Care); 7 within 5 miles, 21 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

18 certified homes within 5 miles, 53 within 15; 2 inside this ZIP.

Medicare rating

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

Beds

108 certified

Ownership

For profit, limited liability company

Penalties

no federal fines or payment denials since 2023 (CMS)

In this ZIP: ALTERCARE OF CUYAHOGA FALLS CTR FOR REHAB & NURSIN (1★, 91 beds); FALLS VILLAGE SKILLED NURSING & REHABILITATION (5★, 108 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

88 offenses: 0 murders, 14 rapes, 5 robberies, 69 aggravated assaults (1.7 per 1,000 residents; Ohio 3.2)

Property

952 offenses: 64 burglaries, 841 thefts, 46 vehicle thefts (18.8 per 1,000; Ohio 16.9)

Other

248 simple assaults, 219 vandalism reports, 310 drug offenses, 35 weapons violations

Reporting

12 months of 2024 on file; 50,639 residents served

Trend

violent offenses down 15% from 104 in 2023; property unchanged

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

4 stations within 3 miles, 16 within 8. Inside this ZIP: Cuyahoga Falls Police Department.

Nearest post office: Cuyahoga Falls Post Office, 0.5 mi; 1 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

10 stations within 3 miles, 33 within 8.

Inside this ZIP: Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department Station 2; Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department - Station 1.

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

3 libraries within 3 miles, 18 within 8.

Open

about 58 hours a week

Building

56,400 square feet

Cuyahoga Falls Library

1 building, serves 41K people, 4 visits per resident a year, 697K items lent, 1,151 programs, $3.3M annual income

Inside this ZIP: Cuyahoga Falls Library.

Museums: 2 inside this ZIP (Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society, Northampton Historical Society); nearest Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society, Cuyahoga Falls, 0.3 mi away; 16 within 5 miles, 64 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

57% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 1% more than 1 mile

Without a car

9% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access; 5.7% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Poverty

10.4% of residents below the poverty line

SNAP stores

5 supermarkets or superstores and 4 grocery stores inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 12 convenience stores, 5 other outlets (dollar, drug and discount stores); nearest supermarket or grocery store Acme (super store), 0.4 mi from the ZIP's center; 38 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)

SNAP households

12% of households received SNAP benefits in the past year (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Setting

100% of residents in urban tracts, across 11 tracts

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

• Falls Stamping and Welding Building (building)
• First Congregational Church of Cuyahoga Falls (building)
• Oakwood Cemetery Chapel (building)

Place names (USGS): 1 named community (Cuyahoga Falls); 1 named stream ends here (Kelsey Brook); 1 named lake or reservoir (Cuyahoga Falls Low Head Reservoir). 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

• Cuyahoga Falls City100% of residentsCity school district

7 public schools inside this ZIP: Cuyahoga Falls High School (3.5 stars); Elizabeth Price Elementary School (3.5 stars); Gordon Dewitt Elementary School (4.5 stars); Lincoln Elementary School (3 stars) and 3 more. Nearest to the population center: Cuyahoga Falls High School (3.5 stars), 0.5 mi; 4 within a mile, 22 within 3.

1 private school inside this ZIP with 186 students in kindergarten through 12th grade (1 religious): Chapel Hill Christian School (North Campus) (186 students, conservative Christian) (NCES Private School Survey 2023-24; the survey's student counts, here and per school, exclude prekindergarten).

Enrolled here: 3,003 students attend the 7 public schools inside this ZIP with 2023-24 enrollment on file; 1 of them is a charter school (70 students), 14.7 students per teacher. 59% of the 3,003 students at the 7 schools reporting it qualify for free or reduced-price meals. (NCES)

Enrollment: 2,954 residents attend kindergarten through 12th grade, 11% of them at private schools; 1,632 are in college or graduate school (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Money, fiscal 2023: Cuyahoga Falls City took in $80 million, 33% from the state, 59% local and 8% federal, and spent $15,358 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 4,022 students, 66% of it on instruction; capital outlay $14.8 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).

Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 11% of Cuyahoga Falls City's school-age children below the poverty line (576 of 5,191 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 3 stars, progress 2 stars, gap closing 3 stars, early literacy 3 stars, graduation 3 stars, college and career readiness 1 star

Achievement

performance index 75.2% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 82.5, 80.6 the year before)

Graduation

88.9% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 50.6% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness

Spending

$13,356 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide

Teachers

average salary $74,680, 17 years of experience, 52.5% with a master's degree, 1.4% in their first years of teaching

Enrollment

3,708 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

Fortis College-Cuyahoga Falls is a for-profit two-year college with 795 students over the 2023-24 year; published tuition and fees $14,050 a year; 43% of a 122-student entering class graduated (three-year).

5 institutions within 10 miles, 35 within 25. Inside this ZIP: Fortis College-Cuyahoga Falls.

Next nearest: University of Akron Main Campus (4.7 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

• Cuyahoga Falls (city)100% of residentsCity

Unauditable in Summit County: North Hills Water District (water/sewer/sanitary district, notified 12/16/2025), per the Auditor of State.

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)

• Emilia Sykes DU.S. House OH-13Akron · since 2023 · site
• Kristina D. Roegner ROhio Senate 27Hudson · since 2018 · site
• Bill Roemer ROhio House 31Richfield · since 2018 · 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