Ohio · Census place 3977000
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is a city in Lucas County, Ohio with an estimated 265,638 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 4th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 265,638
- #4 of 526 in Ohio
- Change since 2020
- -1.7%
- -4,647 people
- Land area
- 80.5 sq mi
- + 3.34 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,300 / sq mi
- State median 2,000
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Toledo population, 2020 to 2024
Toledo lost 4,647 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -160. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 209th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Toledo is 19.1 times that size.
Toledo covers 80.49 square miles of land and 3.34 of water, for 3,300 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Toledo is denser than the typical town.
What county Toledo is in
All of Toledo's residents live in Lucas County, which had 426,291 residents in 2024. Toledo holds 62.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Toledo
14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Toledo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43604, 43605, 43606, 43607, 43608, 43609, 43610, 43611, 43612, 43613, 43614, 43615, 43620, 43623. 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 Toledo is
The Census internal point of Toledo is at 41.664100, -83.581900. Columbus, the capital, is 121.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Detroit, MI (645,705 people), 55.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Ann Arbor, MI, 43.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 185 m (607 ft) above sea level.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 41.664100, -83.581900
- DMS
- 41°39'50.76"N 83°34'54.84"W
- UTM
- 17N 285043.8E 4615703.5N
- Geohash
- dpkt409wb
- Plus code
- 86HRMC79+J6
- Time zone
- America/New_York
Daylight in Toledo
At 41.66° N, Toledo gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Toledo daylight page.
Places near Toledo
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Ottawa Hills, 3.0 miles away, with 4,800 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Toledo, OH?
265,638 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 4,647 (1.7%) from 270,285 in July 2020.
What county is Toledo in?
Lucas County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Toledo?
14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 43604, 43605, 43606, 43607, 43608, 43609, 43610, 43611, 43612, 43613, 43614, 43615, and more.
How far is Toledo from Columbus?
121.5 miles (195.5 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Toledo.
What is the nearest larger city to Toledo?
Detroit, MI, with 645,705 residents, 55.4 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
- 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)
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