Massillon, Ohio

Massillon population, 2020 to 2024

Massillon added 702 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +296. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 53rd; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Massillon is 2.4 times that size.

Massillon covers 18.97 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 1,726 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Massillon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Massillon is in

All of Massillon's residents live in Stark County, which had 374,091 residents in 2024. Massillon holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Massillon

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Massillon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44646, 44647. 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 Massillon is

The Census internal point of Massillon is at 40.784500, -81.525200. Columbus, the capital, is 96.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Canton, OH (69,211 people), 8.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Akron, OH, 20.4 miles away.

Daylight in Massillon

At 40.78° N, Massillon gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Massillon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Navarre, 4.0 miles away, with 1,833 people.