Ohio · Census place 3905284

Bellville, Ohio

Bellville is a village in Richland County, Ohio with an estimated 1,995 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 398th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,995
#398 of 526 in Ohio
Change since 2020
+1.8%
+35 people
Land area
2.9 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
700 / sq mi
State median 2,000
Orange pin: Bellville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbus.

Bellville population, 2020 to 2024

Bellville added 35 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,959. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Bellville covers 2.85 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 700 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Bellville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bellville is in

All of Bellville's residents live in Richland County, which had 124,853 residents in 2024. Bellville holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bellville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bellville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 44813. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bellville is

The Census internal point of Bellville is at 40.617700, -82.513100. Columbus, the capital, is 52.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lexington, OH (4,832 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 50.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.617700, -82.513100
DMS
40°37'3.72"N 82°30'47.16"W
UTM
17N 372011.2E 4497419.9N
Geohash
dpjr465z3
Plus code
86GVJF9P+3Q

Daylight in Bellville

At 40.62° N, Bellville gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bellville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Lexington, 5.5 miles away, with 4,832 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Bellville, OH?

1,995 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 35 (1.8%) from 1,960 in July 2020.

What county is Bellville in?

Richland County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Bellville?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 44813.

How far is Bellville from Columbus?

52.1 miles (83.8 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Bellville.

What is the nearest larger city to Bellville?

Lexington, OH, with 4,832 residents, 5.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.