Wayne County Today

There were 3,445 disabled OASDI beneficiaries in Wooster in 2019, ranking it 43rd in Ohio, according to the official Social Security Administration website.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program is a program of the Social Security Administration funded primarily through payroll taxes. It was signed into law in 1935 by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The OASDI program aims to supplement a worker’s lost wages due to retirement, disability or death of a spouse.

The following table shows Social Security field offices ranked by number of disabled workers in Ohio.

Rank	Field Office	Number of Disabled Workers
1	Dayton	15,050
2	Cincinnati, Downtown	14,425
3	Canton	12,400
4	Toledo, Downtown	10,745
5	Akron, Downtown	10,040
6	Hamilton	9,555
7	Chillicothe	9,255
8	Lorain	8,810
9	Columbus, West	8,650
10	Springfield	8,480
11	Lima	8,335
12	Youngstown	8,295
13	Cincinnati, North	8,105
14	Cleveland, Downtown	8,025
15	Warren	7,955
16	Columbus, East	7,940
17	Cleveland, West	7,540
18	Zanesville	7,515
19	Mansfield	7,350
20	Painesville	7,280
21	Batavia	7,205
22	Marion	6,910
23	Newark	6,350
24	Columbus, North	6,140
25	Middletown	5,805
26	Columbus, Downtown	5,800
27	Piqua	5,665
28	Defiance	5,485
29	Toledo, West	5,320
30	Lancaster	5,295
31	Cleveland, Southwest	5,200
32	Portsmouth	5,110
33	Sandusky	5,020
34	Akron, West	4,515
35	Xenia	4,495
36	Findlay	4,450
37	Ravenna	4,200
38	Cleveland, Northeast	4,140
39	Ashtabula	4,110
40	East Liverpool	3,725
41	Cleveland, East	3,660
42	Medina	3,590
43	Wooster	3,445
44	New Philadelphia	3,375
45	Steubenville	3,270
46	Ironton	3,105
47	Marietta	3,015
48	Bowling Green	2,900
49	Athens	2,870
50	Cleveland, Buckeye-Shaker	2,835
51	Gallipolis	2,795
52	Cleveland, Southeast	2,670
53	Cleveland, Northwest	2,450
54	Wheeling, WV	2,075
55	Fremont	1,910
55	Cambridge	1,910
57	Dayton, West	1,875