Heath, Ohio

Heath population, 2020 to 2024

Heath added 357 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +70. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Heath is 78% of it.

Heath covers 11.49 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 942 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Heath is less dense than the typical town.

What county Heath is in

All of Heath's residents live in Licking County, which had 184,898 residents in 2024. Heath holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Heath

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Heath by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43056. 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 Heath is

The Census internal point of Heath is at 40.020800, -82.442100. Columbus, the capital, is 29.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newark, OH (51,424 people), 3.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 28.8 miles away.

Daylight in Heath

At 40.02° N, Heath gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Heath

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Newark, 3.6 miles away, with 51,424 people.