Grafton, Ohio

Grafton population, 2020 to 2024

Grafton lost 129 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +4. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 227th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Grafton is 42% of it.

Grafton covers 4.93 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,177 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Grafton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grafton is in

All of Grafton's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. Grafton holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grafton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grafton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 44044. 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 Grafton is

The Census internal point of Grafton is at 41.284100, -82.030000. Columbus, the capital, is 104.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Ridgeville, OH (37,504 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 22.6 miles away.

Daylight in Grafton

At 41.28° N, Grafton 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 Grafton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is LaGrange, 5.3 miles away, with 2,906 people.