Mentor, Ohio

Mentor population, 2020 to 2024

Mentor lost 315 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +113. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 138th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Mentor is 3.4 times that size.

Mentor covers 27.80 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 1,695 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Mentor is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mentor is in

All of Mentor's residents live in Lake County, which had 232,360 residents in 2024. Mentor holds 20.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mentor

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mentor by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44060. 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 Mentor is

The Census internal point of Mentor is at 41.690200, -81.335900. Columbus, the capital, is 147.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Euclid, OH (48,421 people), 11.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 23.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mentor

At 41.69° N, Mentor gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mentor

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Mentor-on-the-Lake, 2.2 miles away, with 7,106 people.