Amherst, Ohio

Amherst population, 2020 to 2024

Amherst added 317 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +100. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Amherst is 94% of it.

Amherst covers 7.08 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,843 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Amherst is close to the typical town.

What county Amherst is in

All of Amherst's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. Amherst holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Amherst

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Amherst by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44001. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Amherst is

The Census internal point of Amherst is at 41.405300, -82.231700. Columbus, the capital, is 107.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lorain, OH (65,751 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 29.1 miles away.

Daylight in Amherst

At 41.41° N, Amherst gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Amherst

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Lorain, 3.6 miles away, with 65,751 people.