New data points focus on quality of life for older residents, cyclist safety, food insecurity, building density

County Planning is pleased to announce the release of Our Communities: The 2025 Data Book, the latest publication in the Data Book series, providing helpful insights and information about Cuyahoga County and its communities.

“We are thrilled to be able to share the 2025 Data Book publication with community leaders, partners, and entities that provide supportive services to Cuyahoga County residents,” said Mary Cierebiej, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission. “This is an opportunity for us to provide essential data all in one document that can be used in funding applications, strategic decision making, and planning for the future.”

The Data Book series assists local communities by providing recent, regularly updated data in an easily accessible format. The new edition provides data for every city, village, and township in Cuyahoga County, and covers 62 indicators in six categories.

The sections of the Data Book are:

• Demographics: information about populations, including size, density, age, race and ethnicity, plus information about households
• Economy: includes figures on employment, income, poverty, educational attainment, and the labor force
• Housing: offers data about the number, types, and age of housing, as well as sales, rents, and occupancy
• Land Use: provides numbers on land usage, zoning, parkland, and building density
• Transportation: details about commuting, vehicle ownership, public transit, bicycle facilities, and crashes
• Health: covers heath conditions and health risk measures

The 2025 edition features nine new indicators, including:

• Living arrangements of older adults, a look at the housing situations for people age 65 and up
• Building density, a calculation of building area per land area
• Level of traffic stress, a measure of stress levels for cyclists who ride on roadways
• Food insecurity, areas where people are unable to afford nutritionally adequate and safe foods

Indicators carried over from previous editions have been refreshed with updated data.

Figures in Our Communities were compiled from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ohio Department of Transportation, County Planning’s Information and Research Division, and several local data providers.

To learn more about the County Planning’s Data Book series, visit countyplanning.us/databook.