Painesville, Ohio

Painesville population, 2020 to 2024

Painesville added 370 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +26. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Painesville is 1.5 times that size.

Painesville covers 6.83 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 3,025 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Painesville is denser than the typical town.

What county Painesville is in

All of Painesville's residents live in Lake County, which had 232,360 residents in 2024. Painesville holds 8.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Painesville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Painesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44077. 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 Painesville is

The Census internal point of Painesville is at 41.721600, -81.258400. Columbus, the capital, is 151.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mentor, OH (47,113 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 27.5 miles away.

Daylight in Painesville

At 41.72° N, Painesville gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Painesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Fairport Harbor, 1.9 miles away, with 3,088 people.