Zanesville, Ohio

Zanesville population, 2020 to 2024

Zanesville added 140 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +262. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 83rd; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Zanesville is 1.8 times that size.

Zanesville covers 11.77 square miles of land and 0.35 of water, for 2,117 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Zanesville is close to the typical town.

What county Zanesville is in

All of Zanesville's residents live in Muskingum County, which had 86,582 residents in 2024. Zanesville holds 28.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Zanesville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Zanesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43701. 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 Zanesville is

The Census internal point of Zanesville is at 39.956000, -82.013500. Columbus, the capital, is 52.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newark, OH (51,424 people), 23.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 51.4 miles away.

Daylight in Zanesville

At 39.96° N, Zanesville gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Zanesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is South Zanesville, 3.6 miles away, with 1,899 people.