Ironton, Ohio

Ironton population, 2020 to 2024

Ironton lost 406 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -47. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 251st; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Ironton is 73% of it.

Ironton covers 4.47 square miles of land and 0.28 of water, for 2,270 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Ironton is denser than the typical town.

What county Ironton is in

All of Ironton's residents live in Lawrence County, which had 55,829 residents in 2024. Ironton holds 18.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ironton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ironton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 45638. 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 Ironton is

The Census internal point of Ironton is at 38.532600, -82.678100. Columbus, the capital, is 100.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ashland, KY (21,066 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 101.6 miles away.

Daylight in Ironton

At 38.53° N, Ironton gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ironton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Coal Grove, 3.6 miles away, with 1,804 people.