132 S Main Street, Orrville, Ohio 44667 * 330-682-8881
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There's something special about living in Orrville. A family-oriented community, offering small-town tranquility and safety
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The Orrville Area provides affordable living and small town tranquility
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Cost of Living is Low in Wayne County
The Council for Community and Economic Research produces the ACCRA Cost of Living Index to provide a useful and reasonably accurate measure of living cost differences among urban areas. Items on which the idex is based have been carefully chosen to reflect the different categories of consumer expenditures.
Each quarter, through the assistance of the Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce, Wayne County participates in the study by pricing grocery items, housing, utilities, transportation, health care and misc goods and services.
The average for all participating places, both metropolitan and non-metropolitan, equals 100, and each participants index is read as a percentage of the average of all places.
Wayne County's rating for 2009 was 87.6%, the second lowest cost of living index in Ohio!
Here is how Wayne County compares to surrounding communities:
Akron 93.7
Ashland 86.6
Cincinnati 91.6
Cleveland 95.1
Columbus 98.6
Dayton 92.5
Findlay 94.1
Lima 98.6
Mansfield 90.7
Norwalk 97.1
Orrville Utilities is a Public Power Utility with electric rates among the lowest in Ohio. As a Public Power Utility, Orrville Utilities is community-owned and operated at not-for-profit rates.
A city of diversified industry with a supportive business climate where major corporations, family businesses, and entrepreneurs can grow and prosper.
