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Akron City Intelligence

Akron is a northeastern Ohio city with polymer-industry, manufacturing, and healthcare employment, interstate freight access near Cleveland, lower housing costs, and cold-weather and post-industrial adaptation context. Akron is a north america city of about ~700K metro in United States. On the composite city-intelligence score, Akron sits at an early stage relative to the indexed set (58/100).

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
Population
~700K metro
View of Akron, United States

Image credit: Image: Knight Foundation / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Overall score

Use the Akron profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy planning, and climate resilience alongside Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh.

Overall58/100
Affordability70/100
Air quality58/100
Energy54/100

Overall city intelligence

Constrained

58/100

Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.

Data confidence

Directional

Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.

Verified utility layers

See country hub

Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.

Akron data table

The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.

Akron city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score58/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living70/100Akron's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality58/100Akron's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy54/100Akron's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety56/100Akron's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed56/100Akron's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk54/100Akron's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
Resilience54/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

Emergency and public safety in Akron

Local public safety guidance for Akron, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.

Verified
United States emergency contacts
ServiceNumberNotes
Universal emergency91124/7911 reaches police, fire, and emergency medical dispatch across the United States.

For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Akron, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the United States emergency profile.

Public safety sources

Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.

Healthcare and hospitals in Akron

Healthcare context for Akron, with national-level information from United States where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.

Verified

For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Akron, see the United States healthcare profile.

Official hospital registry

Medicare Care Compare

Federal directory for comparing Medicare-certified hospitals, nursing homes, and other care providers.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Healthcare sources

Each entry above is attributed to an official government, public health, or recognised health-system publisher. Confirm current information directly with these sources.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.

Transport and mobility in Akron

Local mobility context for Akron, with national-level context from United States where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.

Verified

For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Akron, see the United States transport profile.

Transport sources

Each entry above is attributed to an official transport authority, national operator, airport publisher, or government source. Confirm current information directly with these publishers.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.

Air quality dataset

Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Akron. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.

Air quality dataset for Akron

Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025

Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location

Source-attributed values for Akron will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.

Akron air-quality dataset coverage
MetricValueData yearStatus
Air qualityVerified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location.

Data provenance

Source attribution

  • Global City Intelligence — air-quality dataset

    Verified data unavailable
    Publisher
    Global City Intelligence
    Last verified
    2026-05-16

    The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).

Explore Akron modules

City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.

Cost of Living in Akron

Akron's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.

Air Quality in Akron

Akron's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.

Energy in Akron

Akron's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.

Safety in Akron

Akron's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.

Internet Speed in Akron

Akron's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.

Climate Risk in Akron

Akron's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.

City rankings

Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.

Cost of living in Akron

Cost of living estimates for Akron — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.

Visual guide to Akron

Source-attributed visual context for Akron using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.

Weekend trip planning guide for Akron

Weekend trip planning checklist for Akron — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.

Nearby weekend places from Akron

Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.

Estimate a monthly budget for Akron

Estimate a monthly budget for Akron using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.

Plan a trip budget for Akron

Plan a trip budget for Akron using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.

Nearby cities from Akron

Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Akron. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.

Windsor, Canada

Cross-border · about 187 km from Akron. Explore Windsor's city intelligence profile.

London, Canada

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Sarnia, Canada

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Related collections

Regional discovery collections that include Akron — named natural regions grouping nearby nature, parks, lakes, coasts, and mountains for local-first day and weekend planning.

Themed collections

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Interpretation

Use the Akron profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy planning, and climate resilience alongside Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (70/100) and air quality (58/100). The area most worth watching is climate risk (54/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.

Country context is available on the United States country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Akron appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.

Sources

4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.