What is the population of Fostoria city?

Fostoria city has 12,671 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #150 of 1,265 in Ohio.

What is the median household income in Fostoria city?

Median household income in Fostoria city is $52,943 a year, 32.6% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Fostoria city?

Median gross rent is $759 a month and the median home value is $81,500, so rent absorbs about 17.2% of median household income.

Is Fostoria city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Fostoria city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Fostoria, OH population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Fostoria, Ohio (Fostoria, OH — Census place “Fostoria city”) is 12,671 residents, ranking #150 of 1265 places in Ohio. Median household income is $52,943, the median home is worth $81,500 and median gross rent runs $759 a month. Looking for the Fostoria Ohio ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Fostoria, OH: 44830.

Population: 12,671Fostoria city residents
Median household income: $52,943Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $81,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $759Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 38.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 66.9%Owner-occupied households

Fostoria ZIP codes (Ohio)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Fostoria.

The Fostoria OH ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

44830

What the numbers mean in Fostoria city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Fostoria city median would spend about 17.2% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19.6% of residents and 66.9% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Fostoria city, OH in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Fostoria city is a mid-size town in Ohio, with 12,671 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #150 of 1,265 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 38.8 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 Fostoria city earn a median of $52,943 a year, 32.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% below the $66,250 median for the 689 Ohio cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 19.6% 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 Fostoria city is valued at $81,500, 73.1% below the national figure and 52% below the $168,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $759 a month, 46% below the national figure, or roughly $9,108 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.5×, 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. 66.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Fostoria city?: Fostoria city has 12,671 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #150 of 1,265 in Ohio.
What is the median household income in Fostoria city?: Median household income in Fostoria city is $52,943 a year, 32.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Fostoria city?: Median gross rent is $759 a month and the median home value is $81,500, so rent absorbs about 17.2% of median household income.
Is Fostoria city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Fostoria city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Fostoria city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.