Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Public schools that outperform most of Ohio. A town of 25,441, settled in 1816.
Trash day: look up yoursA good place to live, if you can afford it. Its strongest subject is schools (A): its schools rank ahead of 94% of Ohio towns. The trade-off is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $335K, 5.1 years of the Toledo metro’s $65K median household income. All told, that adds up to an A overall and a rank of 66th of 987 in Ohio. Set against the rest, it does better than 94% of U.S. towns. Perrysburg has 9 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Fort Meigs and Old Wood County Jail. Perrysburg's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) is stronger than in 90% of U.S. towns. 58% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more locally, against 24% in Ohio’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns.
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Perrysburg beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Woodland Elementary School | K–4 | 581 |
| Fort Meigs Elementary School | K–4 | 540 |
| Frank Elementary School | K–4 | 460 |
| Widest gap | Perrysburg | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.3% | 14.1% |
Fort Meigs is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 182 in 1830, 25,041 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1840 and 5 maps from 1900 on.
9 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Perrysburg is from typical.
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Who provides power, water and the rest in Perrysburg, 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 Perrysburg.
Perrysburg trades workers with Toledo and other neighbors, has less food insecurity than most of Ohio and has seen reported crime fall by a third or more.
That grade comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $335K.
The Perrysburg Exempted Village school district runs its public schools. Three of its 8 schools are shown below, with the reason for each. 5 public schools serve Perrysburg, with 2,916 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull Prairie Intermediate SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–6 | Grades 5–6 | 925 | A |
| Perrysburg High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,676 | A |
| Fort Meigs Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 540 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Ohio is food insecurity: 7.3% of its 18,777 adults worry about having enough food, against 14.1% statewide.
The share of adults in Perrysburg who have high blood pressure: 32%. One in ten adults in Perrysburg smoke cigarettes; 19% get no exercise outside work.
| Perrysburg | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 28% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 20% | 19% |
| What stands out | Perrysburg | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.3% | 14.1% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.7% | 15.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Reported crimes fell from 178 to 104 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings. Violent crime is rare: 5 reported in 2025, 0.2 per 1,000 residents.
Perrysburg’s violent offense rate comes in at 0.2 per 1,000 residents. Its property crime rate comes in at 3.9 per 1,000 residents.
| Perrysburg | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 3.9 per 1,000 residents | 9.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.2 per 1,000 residents | 1.2 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
The biggest park or preserve is Woodlands Park, at 42 acres. 5.0 miles of trail wind through 11 parks and preserves. In Perrysburg, the concentration of trails is 0.4 miles per square mile.
| Perrysburg | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.9% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Rotary Community Park | 0.6 mi | 21 |
| 2. Woodlands Park | — | 42 |
| 3. Rivercrest Park | — | 38 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median property tax bill is $5,055, against $2,822 across Ohio, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Typical home values rose 2.6% in the year to September 2026. 63% of Perrysburg households own their home. Bidding over the asking price: just over two in five homes sold here.
| Perrysburg | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 63% | 77% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,198 a month | $943 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Households in Perrysburg have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2002. Compared with 69% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in the town is lower. 2 flood insurance claims have been paid here since 1978. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 66% come from inland flooding and 17% from tornadoes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The range runs from 20° on a January night to 85° on a July afternoon, with about 37 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Perrysburg has about as many jobs (12,242) as working residents, but only 1,519 people both live and work here. Jobs based here grew from 9,356 in 2013 to 12,242.
Only 13% of working residents stay in Perrysburg for work; the rest commute out. Since 2013, Perrysburg has added 2,886 jobs, to 12,242 in 2023. The town’s mean commuting time stands at 19 minutes. The top destinations are Toledo (27%), Perrysburg Township (5%) and Bowling Green (5%).
| Perrysburg | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 19% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Median household income | $112,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.1% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Perrysburg. Close and well known come first.
9 mi MuseumToledo Museum of Art340K visitors a year
in town LandmarkFort Meigs
6 mi Zoo & aquariumToledo Zoo
10 mi MuseumImagination Station
11 mi MuseumNational Museum of the Great Lakes
29 mi National park siteRiver Raisin National Battlefield Park134K visitors a yearToledo Museum of Art: Ɱ, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Meigs: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Toledo Zoo: DreamingKoala, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Imagination Station: MrJacon000, CC BY-SA 4.0 · National Museum of the Great Lakes: MrJacon000, CC BY-SA 4.0 · River Raisin National Battlefield Park: Notorious4life (talk), Public domain
7 within 15 miles of the center of Perrysburg
About 7 of every 100 Perrysburg residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Ohio.
20,623 counted in 2010 and 25,041 in 2020; an estimated 25,441 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
9 places in Perrysburg on the National Register of Historic Places.
7 notable people were born in Perrysburg.
City in Ohio, United States
Perrysburg is a city in Wood County, Ohio, United States. The population was 25,041 at the 2020 census. The city is along the south side of the Maumee River about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Toledo and is part of the Toledo metropolitan area. Perrysburg was surveyed and platted by a federal survey team in the summer of 1816. It served as the county seat from 1822 to 1868. A local legend has held that it was designed by noted architect Charles Pierre L'Enfant, after he planned Washington, DC, but this has not been supported by fact.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
2 towns share a border with Perrysburg.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perrysburg | #66 | A | C− | A | A | A |
| Perrysburg Township | #409 | B+ | C− | B+ | A | A− |
| Middleton Township | #542 | B | C+ | — | B+ | B |
Middleton Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Perrysburg with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Perrysburg grades A overall, better than 94% of U.S. towns and #66 of 987 in Ohio. It grades A for health, A for safety and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
7 notable people were born here, including Jim Leyland and Joseph E. Baird.
