Stow, Ohio

Stow population, 2020 to 2024

Stow lost 359 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 166th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Stow is 2.5 times that size.

Stow covers 17.09 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,995 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Stow is close to the typical town.

What county Stow is in

All of Stow's residents live in Summit County, which had 538,370 residents in 2024. Stow holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stow

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Stow by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44224. 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 Stow is

The Census internal point of Stow is at 41.176300, -81.436500. Columbus, the capital, is 117.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cuyahoga Falls, OH (50,979 people), 6.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Akron, OH, 8.0 miles away.

Daylight in Stow

At 41.18° N, Stow gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Stow

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Silver Lake, 1.7 miles away, with 2,509 people.