Shaker Heights, Ohio

Shaker Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Shaker Heights lost 693 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +10. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 237th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Shaker Heights is 2.1 times that size.

Shaker Heights covers 6.29 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 4,561 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Shaker Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Shaker Heights is in

All of Shaker Heights's residents live in Cuyahoga County, which had 1,240,594 residents in 2024. Shaker Heights holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shaker Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Shaker Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44120, 44122. 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 Shaker Heights is

The Census internal point of Shaker Heights is at 41.476100, -81.549200. Columbus, the capital, is 129.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cleveland Heights, OH (44,064 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 6.8 miles away.

Daylight in Shaker Heights

At 41.48° N, Shaker Heights gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shaker Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is University Heights, 1.5 miles away, with 13,265 people.