Oberlin, Ohio

Oberlin population, 2020 to 2024

Oberlin added 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +12. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 90th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Oberlin is 62% of it.

Oberlin covers 4.93 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,742 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Oberlin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oberlin is in

All of Oberlin's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. Oberlin holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oberlin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oberlin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44074. 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 Oberlin is

The Census internal point of Oberlin is at 41.286100, -82.219600. Columbus, the capital, is 100.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Amherst, OH (13,048 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 31.0 miles away.

Daylight in Oberlin

At 41.29° N, Oberlin gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oberlin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is South Amherst, 4.2 miles away, with 1,566 people.