Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Moraine earns a D, 954th of 987 graded towns in Ohio, mostly because of safety and health. Its police reported 44 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025, a higher rate per resident than 98% of U.S. towns. Residents are less healthy than 93% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. One bright spot: it is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Moraine’s violent crime rate is 6.6 per 1,000 residents, where Ohio’s towns sit at 1.2 and U.S. towns at 1.6. On history, just 153 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse. The biggest place to walk is Wright Trail, 59 acres with 1 miles of trail.
Where Moraine beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Moraine’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Moraine is from typical.
Its grades run from A for walkability (better than 95% of comparable towns) to D− for safety (better than 2%), so the D overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Wright Flyer III is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 2,262 in 1960, 6,393 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 1917 and 5 maps from 1913 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Moraine. Close and well known come first.
9 mi MuseumNational Museum of the United States Air Force1.0M visitors a year
Big draw25 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year9 mi MuseumNational Aviation Hall of Fame300K visitors a year
4 mi National Historical ParkDayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park80K visitors a year
5 mi MuseumDayton Art Institute304K visitors a year
in town MuseumSunWatch Indian VillageNational Museum of the United States Air Force: No machine-readable author provided. Rogerd assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dayton Art Institute: Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0 · SunWatch Indian Village: Andrew Sawyer a.k.a. Asawyer sunwatch., Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Moraine, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Moraine.
Moraine has more 90° days than almost anywhere else in Ohio, but it reports violent crime at about twice the Ohio rate and carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Ohio (mostly inland flooding).
Violent crime runs at 6.6 per 1,000 residents, about twice the Ohio rate; the Safety Grade counts each violent crime four times, so this weighs most on its D−. Property crime runs at 48.3 per 1,000 residents, 3 times the Ohio rate, most of it theft.
The property crime rate in Moraine is 48.3 per 1,000 residents. Moraine reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 98% report less.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its public schools are run by the West Carrollton City school district. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Carrollton Intermediate SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–6 | Grades 5–6 | 453 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
13,127 jobs are based in Moraine, 4.6 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 10,066 in 2013 to 13,127.
Most working residents leave Moraine for work: only 8% work in town. 23% of Moraine residents live below the poverty line. Since 2013, Moraine has added 3,061 jobs, to 13,127 in 2023.
| Moraine | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 23% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $49,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
16% of adults have diabetes in Moraine. Moraine beats the Ohio average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 17. 34% of adults get no exercise outside work in Moraine.
| Moraine | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 28% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 20% | 19% |
| What stands out | Moraine | OH |
|---|---|---|
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 12.4% | 8.3% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 20.7% | 14.1% |
| More adults without reliable transportation | 11.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 2.2 years of the Dayton metro’s $72K median household income, the typical home (about $161K) costs less against local pay than in 88% of Ohio towns; that ratio is one input to its B− for cost of living. 69% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 45.9% across Ohio.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
| Moraine | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.4% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Wright Trail | 1 mi | 59 |
| 2. Johnny Appleseed Hiking Trail | — | 35 |
| 3. Deer Meadow Park | 0.1 mi | 34 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The Dayton Mcd weather station, 5 miles away, records that about 39 days a year reach 90°, the highest of 2,573 Ohio places with climate records.
Moraine has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 22° and about 12 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of Ohio towns, with expected losses of about $549 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
Moraine’s FEMA risk score is 57 of 100. Since 1989, 3 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Moraine.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
9 within 15 miles of the center of Moraine
About 6 of every 100 Moraine residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Ohio.
2 places in Moraine on the National Register of Historic Places.
City in Ohio, United States
Moraine is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. Situated on the banks of the Great Miami River, Moraine is an inner suburb of Dayton, Ohio and a part of the Dayton metropolitan area. The population was 6,393 at the 2020 census.
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5 towns share a border with Moraine.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moraine | #954 | D | B− | D− | B | D |
| Jefferson Township | #956 | D | B− | — | D | D |
| Dayton | #974 | D | B+ | D− | C− | D− |
| Kettering | #234 | A− | C+ | B | A− | B+ |
| Miami Township | #775 | C | C | C | B− | B |
| West Carrollton | #878 | C− | B− | C− | C+ | C− |
Jefferson Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Moraine with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Moraine grades D overall, better than 11% of U.S. towns and #954 of 987 in Ohio. It grades D for health, D− for safety and B for schools. Safety is its weak spot, with a D−.
That is 2.2 years of the area's median household income ($71,739 across the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
