East Cleveland, OH population, income and ZIP codes

East Cleveland city is a mid-size town in Ohio, with 13,666 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #133 of 1,265 ranked by population — larger than 89% of them. The median age here is 39.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in East Cleveland city earn a median of $22,883 a year, 70.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 65% below the $66,250 median for the 689 Ohio cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 44.3% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in East Cleveland city is valued at $68,900, 77.3% below the national figure and 59% below the $168,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $761 a month, 45.9% below the national figure, or roughly $9,132 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 39.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 33.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.

East Cleveland city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 39.9% of median income while homes cost only 3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.