Ohio · Census place 3985484

Willoughby, Ohio

Willoughby is a city in Lake County, Ohio with an estimated 24,208 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 69th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
24,208
#69 of 526 in Ohio
Change since 2020
+1.4%
+338 people
Land area
10.2 sq mi
+ 0.09 sq mi water
Density
2,364 / sq mi
State median 2,000
Orange pin: Willoughby. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbus.

Willoughby population, 2020 to 2024

Willoughby added 338 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +16. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 63rd; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Willoughby is 1.7 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 23,858. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Willoughby covers 10.24 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 2,364 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Willoughby is denser than the typical town.

What county Willoughby is in

All of Willoughby's residents live in Lake County, which had 232,360 residents in 2024. Willoughby holds 10.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Willoughby

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Willoughby by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44094. 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 Willoughby is

The Census internal point of Willoughby is at 41.645300, -81.414400. Columbus, the capital, is 142.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mentor, OH (47,113 people), 5.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 17.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.645300, -81.414400
DMS
41°38'43.08"N 81°24'51.84"W
UTM
17N 465490.4E 4610478.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
86HWJHWP+46

Daylight in Willoughby

At 41.65° N, Willoughby 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.

Places near Willoughby

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Eastlake, 1.1 miles away, with 17,423 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Willoughby, OH?

24,208 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 338 (1.4%) from 23,870 in July 2020.

What county is Willoughby in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Willoughby?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 44094.

How far is Willoughby from Columbus?

142.9 miles (229.9 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Willoughby.

What is the nearest larger city to Willoughby?

Mentor, OH, with 47,113 residents, 5.1 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.