Ohio · Census place 3953046

Mount Sterling, Ohio

Mount Sterling is a village in Madison County, Ohio with an estimated 2,070 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 395th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,070
#395 of 526 in Ohio
Change since 2020
+6.6%
+129 people
Land area
1.7 sq mi
Density
1,225 / sq mi
State median 2,000
Orange pin: Mount Sterling. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbus.

Mount Sterling population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Sterling added 129 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +35.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,944. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Mount Sterling covers 1.69 square miles of land, for 1,225 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Mount Sterling is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Sterling is in

All of Mount Sterling's residents live in Madison County, which had 45,531 residents in 2024. Mount Sterling holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Sterling

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Sterling by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 43143. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Mount Sterling is

The Census internal point of Mount Sterling is at 39.713300, -83.273500. Columbus, the capital, is 22.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Commercial Point, OH (3,221 people), 14.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 24.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
39.713300, -83.273500
DMS
39°42'47.88"N 83°16'24.60"W
UTM
17N 305116.1E 4398408.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
86FRPP7G+8H

Daylight in Mount Sterling

At 39.71° N, Mount Sterling gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Sterling

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Williamsport, 12.2 miles away, with 1,016 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Mount Sterling, OH?

2,070 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 129 (6.6%) from 1,941 in July 2020.

What county is Mount Sterling in?

Madison County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Mount Sterling?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 43143.

How far is Mount Sterling from Columbus?

22.5 miles (36.1 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Mount Sterling.

What is the nearest larger city to Mount Sterling?

Commercial Point, OH, with 3,221 residents, 14.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.