Blue JayOH
A town of 1,797.
Is Blue Jay a good place to live?
Blue Jay’s best subject grades are an A for incomes and the outdoors; its weakest is a C for hazard risk. 20% of the land in Blue Jay is conserved, where Ohio’s towns sit at 3.7% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. On the outdoors, just 94 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do better. The biggest park or preserve is Miami Whitewater Forest, at 533 acres. Blue Jay has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Blue Jay for work
Where Blue Jay’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Blue Jay grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Blue Jay is from typical.
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Kings Island and 51 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Blue Jay. Close and well known come first.
Big draw26 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
16 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
16 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
11 mi MuseumCreation Museum1.2M visitors a year
14 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
15 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumPhoto credits
Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Creation Museum: Creashin at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Blue Jay: who provides what
Blue Jay is unincorporated, so Hamilton County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Blue Jay.
A smaller share of working residents work locally in Blue Jay than in most of Ohio or the rest of the country
In Blue Jay, the income of the median household is $118,000, against $75,000 in Ohio’s towns and $80,000 across U.S. towns. Since 2013, Blue Jay has added 141 jobs, to 462 in 2023. Its mean commuting time stands at 28 minutes. The top destinations are Cincinnati (25%), Harrison (7%) and West Chester Township (4%).
| Blue Jay | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $118,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8.2% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Blue Jay’s grade for the outdoors is an A
0.9 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. In Blue Jay, the trail density is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Miami Whitewater Forest | 0.9 mi | 533 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Blue Jay has four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 16 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Blue Jay has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Expected losses in Blue Jay break down as 65% from inland flooding and 18% from tornadoes. Blue Jay’s FEMA hazard score comes in at 65 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
More children than Ohio overall
The midpoint age in Blue Jay is 36.9 years. Children under 18 are 29% of residents (22% statewide). Just over a quarter of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Ohio.
| Blue Jay | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 36.9 years | 41.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 18% | 20% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.4 points. Across Ohio, 50.7% of residents are women. Among residents 35 to 44, 81% are men (OH 50%).
| Blue Jay | OH | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 26.8% | 11.7% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 1.9% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 0.9% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 18% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.9% | 12.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 5.3% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.2% | 13.2% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 16% | 10.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 2.1% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.1% | 8.2% | 10.4% |
| High school | 35.6% | 32.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 18.6% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.6% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.5% | 19.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.6% | 12.2% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,800, single groups can be off by several points
Blue Jay ranks healthier than 62% of the country’s towns
Blue Jay: 13% of adults report frequent physical distress. CDC measures, 32 in all: Blue Jay beats Ohio on 5 and trails on 1. Among adults here, 27% have been diagnosed with depression and 31% feel lonely.
| Blue Jay | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 34% | 33% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Blue Jay | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.6% | 14.1% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.5% | 8.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.9% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A home in Blue Jay sells for about $311K at the median
81% of households are owner-occupiers in Blue Jay.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Blue Jay
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Blue Jay
About 6 of every 100 Blue Jay residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Ohio.
About Blue Jay
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Blue Jay is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,427 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 4.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 782 ft
Blue Jay’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Blue Jay.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Jay | — | — | B | — | B+ | B |
| Whitewater Township | #547 | B− | B− | — | B+ | B |
| Crosby Township | #627 | B− | C− | — | B+ | B |
| Miamitown | — | — | B+ | — | B+ | A− |
Blue Jay and Miamitown have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Blue Jay, Whitewater Township, Crosby Township and Miamitown report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Blue Jay with a neighbor →
Questions about Blue Jay
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Blue Jay, OH expensive?
The typical home is worth about $243,000, 1% below the Ohio typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.