PlainZIP

Clay Center, OH

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Clay Center, OH: 1 USPS ZIP, population 269. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet CLAY-CENTER-OH · Clay Center, OH 1 ZIPs · 269 pop · #17003/25278 · Ottawa County

INC-MID · RANK-LOWER · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-MID $61,719
  • RANK-LOWER #17003/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Port Clinton
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 77% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 269
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $117,800

Nearest income peer: Port Clinton, OH (+ $5,771 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Clay Center

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Clay Center on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Clay Center, OH sits among US cities with a below-median household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

33rd pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
269
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$61,719
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Below-median income with few delivery areas (1): read cost-of-living from the primary ZIP. Household income $61,719 and poverty 14.5% concentrate in 43408.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (76.9%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Clay Center as a pure owner town.

Within Ohio, Girard is the closest lower-income city and Washington Court House the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Clay Center.

Population concentration

Clay Center's single ZIP 43408 carries the town

Clay Center is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 43408 is the entire residential footprint (269 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Clay Center's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Clay Center. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Clay Center, OH

These ZIP codes sit in Ottawa County, which covers 14 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Clay Center. See the Ottawa County roll-up →

Every one of the 10 cities sharing Ottawa County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Clay Center, Port Clinton, Oak Harbor and Lakeside Marblehead among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Graytown marks the far end of that range at $152,411, 147% above Clay Center.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
43408 269 $61,719 n/a 159
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