Elyria, Ohio

Elyria population, 2020 to 2024

Elyria added 918 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +423. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 55th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Elyria is 3.9 times that size.

Elyria covers 20.56 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 2,607 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Elyria is denser than the typical town.

What county Elyria is in

All of Elyria's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. Elyria holds 16.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elyria

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elyria by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44035. 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 Elyria is

The Census internal point of Elyria is at 41.372800, -82.108000. Columbus, the capital, is 108.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lorain, OH (65,751 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 23.4 miles away.

Daylight in Elyria

At 41.37° N, Elyria gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elyria

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is North Ridgeville, 4.5 miles away, with 37,504 people.