Defiance, Ohio

Defiance population, 2020 to 2024

Defiance added 130 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +91. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 79th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Defiance is 1.2 times that size.

Defiance covers 12.87 square miles of land and 0.49 of water, for 1,335 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Defiance is less dense than the typical town.

What county Defiance is in

All of Defiance's residents live in Defiance County, which had 38,644 residents in 2024. Defiance holds 44.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Defiance

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Defiance by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43512. 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 Defiance is

The Census internal point of Defiance is at 41.281000, -84.365800. Columbus, the capital, is 115.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bowling Green, OH (30,463 people), 37.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 42.6 miles away.

Daylight in Defiance

At 41.28° N, Defiance gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Defiance

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Holgate, 12.5 miles away, with 1,046 people.