CalcuttaOH
A town of 4,754, laid out in 1810.
Is Calcutta a good place to live?
Calcutta gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $158K, 2.7 years of the Salem area’s $58K median household income. It grades B+ overall, 418th among Ohio's 987 graded towns. On the plus side, its public schools beat 78% of Ohio towns on state tests and graduation. 31% of residents are 65 or older in Calcutta, above both the Ohio town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (18%). The biggest park or preserve is Beaver Creek State Forest, at 241 acres.
What makes Calcutta stand out
Where Calcutta beats most towns.
How Calcutta grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Calcutta is from typical.
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Moving to Calcutta: who provides what
Calcutta is unincorporated, so Columbiana 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 Calcutta.
Calcutta is healthier than towns with similar incomes and trades workers with East Liverpool and other neighbors, but it has many renters stretched by housing costs.
Natural hazards: low risk in Calcutta, mostly inland flooding
The FEMA risk score for Calcutta comes to 25 of 100. This Ohio town has had 3 paid flood insurance claims since 2004. FEMA puts 74% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 11% to tornadoes. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Calcutta once, in 2004.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Calcutta is less healthy than seven in ten U.S. towns
Against the 8,593 U.S. towns with household incomes like Calcutta’s, it is less healthy than 51%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
Among adults in Calcutta, 16% report frequent physical distress. This Ohio town beats the Ohio average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6.
| Calcutta | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 38% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 28% | 25% |
| What stands out | Calcutta | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.4% | 8.3% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.1% | 11.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.7% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Calcutta, 3.7% of the land is conserved
1.8 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves. Calcutta’s concentration of trails stands at 0.2 miles per square mile. Parks and preserves in the town: 3, covering 340 acres.
| Calcutta | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.7% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Beaver Creek State Park | 0.5 mi | 98 |
| 2. Beaver Creek State Forest | — | 241 |
| 3. Calcutta Community Park | 0.1 mi | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most of Calcutta’s workers leave town for work
Calcutta has about as many jobs (1,438) as working residents, but only 105 people both live and work here. Jobs based here fell from 2,012 in 2013 to 1,438.
The top destinations are East Liverpool (10%), St. Clair Township (3%) and Lisbon (3%). Just 7% of Calcutta’s working residents have a job in town. Employers in Calcutta shed 574 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,438. In Calcutta, the average commute is 18 minutes.
| Calcutta | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $59,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Calcutta, the median rent runs lower than in the typical Ohio or U.S. town
72.7% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 45.9% across Ohio.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Acrisure Stadium and 56 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Calcutta. Close and well known come first.
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
33 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
33 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
34 mi Stadium & arenaPPG Paints Arena
28 mi MuseumMeadowcroft Rockshelter
33 mi LandmarkFort PittPhoto credits
Acrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · PPG Paints Arena: Jleedev, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Meadowcroft Rockshelter: Lee Paxton, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Pitt: Downtown_Pittsburgh_May_2008.jpg: Allie Caufield derivative work: GrapedApe (tal, CC BY 2.0
Everything we know about Calcutta
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Calcutta
About 8 of every 100 Calcutta residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Calcutta
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Calcutta is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in St. Clair Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,941 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,115 ft
Calcutta’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Calcutta.
Glenmoor has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Calcutta and Glenmoor report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Calcutta with a neighbor →
Questions about Calcutta
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Calcutta, OH a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Calcutta grades B+ overall, better than 65% of U.S. towns and #418 of 987 in Ohio. It grades C for health and A− for schools.
Is Calcutta, OH expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $158,000, 36% 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+.