Bowling Green vs Perrysburg

A side-by-side comparison of Bowling Green and Perrysburg: population, income, housing, and more.

Bowling Green and Perrysburg are places in Ohio. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Bowling Green has the higher population (30,051 vs 25,065 in Perrysburg). Perrysburg has the higher median household income ($105,226 vs $46,719 in Bowling Green). Perrysburg has the higher median home value ($306,500 vs $217,300 in Bowling Green).

Population, income & housing

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
Population	30,051	25,065
Median age	23.6 yrs	38.0 yrs
Median household income	$46,719	$105,226
Median home value	$217,300	$306,500
Median gross rent	$874	$1,213
Housing units	12,647	10,775
Homeownership rate	36.8%	63.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	47.0%	57.6%
Unemployment rate	5.8%	4.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
Population	31,526 → 30,051 (-4.7%)	21,482 → 25,065 (+16.7%)
Median household income	$37,346 → $46,719 (+25.1%)	$90,633 → $105,226 (+16.1%)
Median home value	$168,000 → $217,300 (+29.3%)	$224,000 → $306,500 (+36.8%)
Median gross rent	$724 → $874 (+20.7%)	$1,032 → $1,213 (+17.5%)

Bowling Green

Population

31,52630,051

Median household income

$37,346$46,719

Median home value

$168,000$217,300

Median gross rent

$724$874

Perrysburg

Population

21,48225,065

Median household income

$90,633$105,226

Median home value

$224,000$306,500

Median gross rent

$1,032$1,213

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
Under 5	4.0%	5.4%
5 to 17	9.7%	21.4%
18 to 24	40.7%	7.4%
25 to 34	13.7%	11.1%
35 to 44	7.0%	15.5%
45 to 54	6.9%	14.3%
55 to 64	7.4%	9.8%
65 to 74	5.7%	9.0%
75 and over	4.9%	6.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
White (non-Hispanic)	82.7%	84.9%
Black or African American	4.9%	2.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.3%	0.3%
Asian	1.3%	4.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.1%
Some other race	0.1%	0.3%
Two or more races	4.1%	3.1%
Hispanic or Latino	6.6%	5.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
No high school diploma	5.0%	2.0%
High school graduate	26.0%	14.0%
Some college or associate's	22.0%	26.4%
Bachelor's degree	24.8%	32.2%
Graduate or professional degree	22.2%	25.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
Drove alone	73.1%	78.3%
Carpooled	7.0%	4.0%
Public transit	0.7%	0.0%
Walked	8.6%	0.5%
Bicycle	0.3%	0.1%
Worked from home	9.9%	16.7%
Other means	0.5%	0.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
1-unit, detached	39.7%	62.0%
1-unit, attached	5.6%	4.5%
2 to 4 units	11.7%	6.6%
5 to 19 units	24.9%	12.2%
20 or more units	14.2%	13.3%
Mobile home & other	3.8%	1.4%

Poverty & households

	Bowling Green	Perrysburg
Poverty rate	29.7%	3.7%
Average household size	2.08	2.43
Mean commute (minutes)	18	19
Median year structure built	1981	1989