What is Mansfield's Life Score?

Mansfield scores 56.7/100 (grade B+), rank #88 of 387. Signature cost at the 81st percentile; stamps UPPER · BALANCED · cost CHEAP · wages LOW.

What pulls Mansfield up or down?

Strongest: rent (95/100). Weakest: environment (5/100). Profile mark BALANCED; dimension gap 90.

How current is this data?

Federal releases current as of August 2026 (BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA). Cadence varies by series; see methodology.

Metro Life Score

Mansfield, OH

Top-quartile composite Life Score — grade B+, 77th percentile of the national corpus.

Compiled by PlainCompare

56.7
Life Score / 100: B+
Grade (curved): #88
of 387 metros: 77%
composite percentile

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Data updated August 2026

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The verdict

Mansfield is top-quartile composite Life Score — #88 of 387 (56.7/100, grade B+, 77th percentile). Carried by rent at 95/100; held back most by environment at 5/100.

77th
composite percentile: #88
of 387 peers: 81st
cost dimension percentile: 20th
wages dimension percentile

Life Score shape · UPPER · BALANCED · signature cost

Mansfield: affordability leads the Life Score story

Mansfield is a UPPER-band metro whose cost dimension sits at the 81st percentile of 387 US metros (CHEAP) while composite is #88 (56.7/100, grade B+). Rent at 95/100 carries the upside; Environment at 5/100 is the residual drag. According to PlainCompare's federal Life Score corpus ranking, Mansfield, OH ranks #88 of 387 metros by composite Life Score (highest = #1) and #73 of 387 by cost-of-living dimension score (highest = #1). Methodology.

BEA RPP 88.9 (rent-RPP 54.9). BLS median salary $59,166, 42,920 jobs (Retail Salespersons, Fast Food and Counter Workers, Cashiers). HUD 2BR FMR $973/mo (studio $671).

FBI UCR (OH): 293 violent, 1545 property/100K. NCES: 17.4:1 ratio, 9.3% charter. DOL infant childcare $11,791/yr. EPA: 50 Superfund sites (OH).

Where Mansfield sits among all US metros

Composite Life Score vs the national field

57 Top 23% higher than 77% of 387 US metros

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US metros. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source PlainCompare composite of BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA data · August 2026

How the 56.7 is built

Mansfield's Life Score, decomposed

Cost of Living 16.3 (29%) Wages 3.9 (7%) Rent 14.3 (25%) Safety 9.6 (17%) Schools 9.0 (16%) Childcare 3.1 (5%) Environment 0.5 (1%)

Dimension detail

How Mansfield scores, dimension by dimension

Score Breakdown

Dimension Scores

Cost of Living 81/100 (20%) Above average

Wages 20/100 (20%) Below average

Rent 95/100 (15%) Top 10%

Safety 64/100 (15%) Average

Schools 90/100 (10%) Top 10%

Childcare 31/100 (10%) Average

Environment 5/100 (10%) Bottom 10%

Key Data Points

88.9

Cost Index (RPP)

$59,166

Avg Median Salary

$973

2BR Fair Market Rent

293

Violent Crime/100K (OH)

17.4:1

Student-Teacher Ratio

$11,791

Infant Childcare/yr (OH)

Superfund Sites (OH)

42,920

Total Employment

Geography used: crime, schools, childcare, and environment cards above are OH state-level when metro-specific feeds are unavailable, see the scope key at the top of this page.

Compare Mansfield With...

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Ranking Context

Mansfield outranks 77% of U.S. metros.

Rank	Metro	Score	Grade
#85	Casper, WY	56.8	B+
#86	Lynchburg, VA	56.9	B+
#87	Oklahoma City, OK	57.0	B+
#88	Mansfield, OH	56.7	B+
#89	Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA	56.7	B+
#90	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	56.6	B+
#91	Minot, ND	56.4	B+

Quality vs. Affordability

Mansfield, OH's quality rank (top 23% highest-quality) and affordability rank (top 19% most affordable) sit close together -- an unusually proportionate metro where overall quality and cost-of-living move together.

Mansfield, OH (highlighted) among its 12 nearest composite-Life-Score peers, out of 387 tracked metros nationally. Crosshairs mark this peer neighborhood's own median composite score and cost-of-living score. Cost-of-living score is already inverted so higher = more affordable.

OH Metro Scores

Toledo, OH A 61.8 Cleveland, OH A- 58.8 Youngstown-Warren, OH B+ 57.1 Lima, OH B+ 55.6 Canton-Massillon, OH B+ 55.5 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH B+ 55.5

Read with Mansfield

Nearest composite peers and cost poles for Mansfield (UPPER · BALANCED · CHEAP/LOW), replacing the fixed Explore/Guides strip.

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA

ABS(composite) peer at 56.7 (Δ 0.0 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · CHEAP/LOW.

Casper, WY

ABS(composite) peer at 56.8 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · CHEAP/LOW.

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

ABS(composite) peer at 56.6 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); lower Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · CHEAP/LOW.

Lynchburg, VA

ABS(composite) peer at 56.9 (Δ 0.2 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · CHEAP/LOW.

Ames, IA (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 82/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp CHEAP vs this metro's CHEAP.

Pocatello, ID (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 81/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp CHEAP vs this metro's CHEAP.

Mansfield, OH relocation guide

Stamp-branched guide for UPPER · BALANCED · CHEAP/LOW - how to read federal Life Score inputs before a move.

Using Mansfield's top-third Life Score

Mansfield scores 56.7/100 overall, but Rent (95.1) and Environment (5.4) sit 89.6 points apart, so decide which of the two matters more to you before leaning on the total.

Rent is the strongest of Mansfield's seven dimensions (weighted 15% in the composite); if it is your priority, this is where the metro earns its rank. See all seven dimensions
Environment is the weakest (weighted 10% in the composite); if it is a dealbreaker, weigh it before the ranking does. Rank metros on the composite
Toledo is the nearest comparison this page can offer; put the two side by side on the same seven dimensions. Compare with Toledo

A high composite is a weighted blend; it does not mean every dimension is strong.

Data from BEA, HUD, FBI UCR, BLS OES, NCES, DOL, and EPA. Not affiliated with the U.S. Government.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Mansfield Life Score 56.7/100 · signature cost · retrieved and formatted by PlainCompare

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

All federal data sources used on this page

U.S. Census Bureau ACS - multi-dimension demographic + housing + income aggregates for cross-area comparison. census.gov/programs-surveys/acs
BEA Regional Economic Accounts - GDP, personal income, employment by state and metro. bea.gov/data/regional
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) - wage estimates for comparable-area indexing. bls.gov/oes
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) - crime statistics for safety-score component. fbi.gov/ucr
NCES Common Core of Data - public-school quality indicators by area. nces.ed.gov/ccd
EPA AirNow + Air Quality System (AQS) - air-quality measurements by area. epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data
HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) - county and metro housing-cost indicators. huduser.gov/datasets/fmr