South Amherst, Ohio

South Amherst population, 2020 to 2024

South Amherst lost 9 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

South Amherst covers 2.41 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 650 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so South Amherst is less dense than the typical town.

What county South Amherst is in

All of South Amherst's residents live in Lorain County, which had 322,030 residents in 2024. South Amherst holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in South Amherst

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps South Amherst by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 44001. 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 South Amherst is

The Census internal point of South Amherst is at 41.346200, -82.235300. Columbus, the capital, is 103.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Amherst, OH (13,048 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 30.2 miles away.

Daylight in South Amherst

At 41.35° N, South Amherst gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near South Amherst

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Amherst, 4.1 miles away, with 13,048 people.