Atwater, OH population, income and ZIP codes

Atwater CDP is a small town in Ohio, with 1,007 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #686 of 1,265 ranked by population — larger than 45% of them. The median age here is 25.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Atwater CDP earn a median of $56,923 a year, 27.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% below the $66,250 median for the 689 Ohio cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 2.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Atwater CDP is valued at $101,100, 66.7% below the national figure and 40% below the $168,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,071 a month, 23.8% below the national figure, or roughly $12,852 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 56.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 25.4 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.