Lorain, Ohio

Lorain population, 2020 to 2024

Lorain added 519 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +338. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Lorain is 4.7 times that size.

Lorain covers 23.61 square miles of land and 0.47 of water, for 2,785 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Lorain is denser than the typical town.

What county Lorain is in

All of Lorain's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. Lorain holds 20.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lorain

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lorain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44052, 44053, 44055. 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 Lorain is

The Census internal point of Lorain is at 41.438800, -82.179700. Columbus, the capital, is 110.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Parma, OH (79,350 people), 23.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 26.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lorain

At 41.44° N, Lorain gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lorain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Amherst, 3.6 miles away, with 13,048 people.