Sylvania, Ohio

Sylvania population, 2020 to 2024

Sylvania added 63 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +37. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 88th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Sylvania is 1.4 times that size.

Sylvania covers 6.67 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,864 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Sylvania is denser than the typical town.

What county Sylvania is in

All of Sylvania's residents live in Lucas County, which had 426,291 residents in 2024. Sylvania holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sylvania

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sylvania by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43560. 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 Sylvania is

The Census internal point of Sylvania is at 41.710400, -83.710200. Columbus, the capital, is 126.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Toledo, OH (265,638 people), 7.3 miles away.

Daylight in Sylvania

At 41.71° N, Sylvania 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 Sylvania

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Ottawa Hills, 4.7 miles away, with 4,800 people.