Ohio · Census place 3972060

Sheffield, Ohio

Sheffield is a village in Lorain County, Ohio with an estimated 4,605 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 266th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,605
#266 of 526 in Ohio
Change since 2020
+10.3%
+431 people
Land area
10.7 sq mi
+ 0.10 sq mi water
Density
429 / sq mi
State median 2,000
Orange pin: Sheffield. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbus.

Sheffield population, 2020 to 2024

Sheffield added 431 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.3%. In the latest year it moved by +131.

4,17420204,30120214,33320224,47420234,6052024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,135. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Sheffield covers 10.74 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 429 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Sheffield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sheffield is in

All of Sheffield's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. Sheffield holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sheffield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sheffield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 44054. 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 Sheffield is

The Census internal point of Sheffield is at 41.456900, -82.094000. Columbus, the capital, is 113.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sheffield Lake, OH (9,035 people), 2.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 21.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.456900, -82.094000
DMS
41°27'24.84"N 82°05'38.40"W
UTM
17N 408630.5E 4590056.9N
Geohash
dpmegfuzz
Plus code
86HVFW44+QC

Daylight in Sheffield

At 41.46° N, Sheffield 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 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sheffield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Sheffield Lake, 2.2 miles away, with 9,035 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Sheffield, OH?

4,605 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 431 (10.3%) from 4,174 in July 2020.

What county is Sheffield in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Sheffield?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 44054.

How far is Sheffield from Columbus?

113.7 miles (183.0 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Sheffield.

What is the nearest larger city to Sheffield?

Sheffield Lake, OH, with 9,035 residents, 2.2 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.