Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services
| Lorain County | |
|---|---|
| U.S. canton | |
 Former county building in Elyria | |
| Flag Seal | |
 Location within the U.South. land of Ohio | |
 Ohio's location inside the U.S. | |
| Coordinates: 41°28′Due north 82°09′W / 41.47°Northward 82.xv°Westward / 41.47; -82.15 | |
| Country |  Us |
| Country |  Ohio |
| Founded | April ane, 1824 |
| Named for | Lorraine in France[1] |
| Seat | Elyria |
| Largest city | Lorain |
| Area | |
| • Total | 923 sq mi (2,390 km2) |
| • Country | 491 sq mi (1,270 km2) |
| • Water | 432 sq mi (1,120 km2) 47%% |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 312,964 |
| • Density | 637.4/sq mi (246.1/km2) |
| Congressional districts | 4th, 7th, 9th |
| Website | www |
Lorain Canton is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. country of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,964.[2] Its county seat is Elyria.[3] The county was physically established in 1822, becoming judicially independent in 1824.[4]
Lorain County is role of the Cleveland-Elyria, OH Metropolitan Statistical Expanse.
The canton is too home to Oberlin College.
History [edit]
Lorain County was established in 1822 from portions of several of its adjacent counties.[ citation needed ] This canton became judicially-contained in 1824. The original proposed proper noun for the canton was "Colerain".[5] The final name "Lorain" seems to take no true intended connection to the Alsace-Lorraine area of France, as theorized by subsequently historians.[ according to whom? ]
Geography [edit]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total surface area of 923 square miles (ii,390 kmii), of which 491 square miles (one,270 km2) is state and 432 square miles (1,120 kmii) (47%) is water.[6] It is the fourth-largest county in Ohio past total area.
Adjacent counties [edit]
- Cuyahoga Canton (east)
- Medina County (southeast)
- Ashland Canton (south)
- Huron Canton (southwest)
- Erie County (northwest)
Major highways [edit]
Demographics [edit]
| Historical population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | Pop. | %± | |
| 1830 | 5,696 | — | |
| 1840 | 18,467 | 224.2% | |
| 1850 | 26,086 | 41.three% | |
| 1860 | 29,744 | 14.0% | |
| 1870 | 30,308 | i.9% | |
| 1880 | 35,526 | 17.2% | |
| 1890 | 40,295 | thirteen.4% | |
| 1900 | 54,857 | 36.i% | |
| 1910 | 76,037 | 38.6% | |
| 1920 | 90,612 | 19.2% | |
| 1930 | 109,206 | 20.5% | |
| 1940 | 112,390 | 2.9% | |
| 1950 | 148,162 | 31.8% | |
| 1960 | 217,500 | 46.8% | |
| 1970 | 256,843 | xviii.1% | |
| 1980 | 274,909 | vii.0% | |
| 1990 | 271,126 | −i.4% | |
| 2000 | 284,664 | 5.0% | |
| 2010 | 301,356 | 5.9% | |
| 2020 | 312,964 | 3.9% | |
| U.S. Decennial Demography[vii] 1790-1960[eight] 1900-1990[ix] 1990-2000[10] 2020 [11] | |||
Equally of the 2010 demography, in that location were 301,356 people, 116,274 households, and 80,077 families residing in the canton.[12] The population density was 613.six inhabitants per foursquare mile (236.9/kmii). In that location were 127,036 housing units at an average density of 258.7 per square mile (99.nine/kmtwo).[13] The racial makeup of the county was 84.viii% white, 8.6% black or African American, 0.9% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 2.5% from other races, and 3.0% from two or more than races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 8.4% of the population.[12] In terms of beginnings, 26.5% were German language, 16.7% were Irish, 10.9% were English, viii.four% were Polish, eight.2% were Italian, 6.2% were American, and 5.2% were Hungarian.[14]
Of the 116,274 households, 32.6% had children under the age of eighteen living with them, 50.5% were married couples living together, thirteen.v% had a female householder with no husband present, 31.1% were not-families, and 26.0% of all households were made upwardly of individuals. The average household size was two.51 and the average family unit size was 3.02. The median historic period was 40.0 years.[12]
The median income for a household in the county was $52,066 and the median income for a family was $62,082. Males had a median income of $49,146 versus $35,334 for females. The per capita income for the canton was $25,002. Almost 10.3% of families and xiii.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.5% of those under age xviii and 8.0% of those age 65 or over.[15]
Politics [edit]
Lorain County has primarily leaned Democratic in contempo presidential elections. It has voted for the Democratic candidate for president in 12 of the final 16 elections, including every ane from 1988 to 2016. In 2016, all the same, the county was well-nigh swept up in the unexpected Republican surge in the Rust Belt; Donald Trump came within 131 votes of being the first Republican to capture the canton since Ronald Reagan in 1984. Four years afterward, he flipped the canton Republican by a narrow majority.
| Year | Republican | Autonomous | Tertiary political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| 2020 | 79,520 | 50.twoscore% | 75,667 | 47.96% | 2,581 | one.64% |
| 2016 | 66,818 | 47.54% | 66,949 | 47.63% | 6,795 | 4.83% |
| 2012 | 59,405 | 41.47% | 81,464 | 56.87% | two,384 | ane.66% |
| 2008 | 59,068 | twoscore.22% | 85,276 | 58.07% | two,515 | i.71% |
| 2004 | 61,203 | 43.49% | 78,970 | 56.xi% | 569 | 0.40% |
| 2000 | 47,957 | 42.75% | 59,809 | 53.32% | 4,414 | three.93% |
| 1996 | 34,937 | 32.82% | 55,744 | 52.37% | 15,764 | 14.81% |
| 1992 | 36,803 | 31.03% | 50,962 | 42.97% | 30,840 | 26.00% |
| 1988 | 50,410 | 47.14% | 55,600 | 52.00% | 916 | 0.86% |
| 1984 | 57,379 | 50.77% | 52,970 | 46.87% | 2,672 | 2.36% |
| 1980 | 51,034 | 49.51% | 40,919 | 39.69% | xi,131 | 10.eighty% |
| 1976 | 39,459 | 41.66% | 52,387 | 55.31% | 2,865 | 3.02% |
| 1972 | 51,102 | 56.fifteen% | 36,634 | 40.25% | iii,280 | 3.60% |
| 1968 | 34,252 | 39.95% | 42,642 | 49.74% | eight,833 | x.30% |
| 1964 | 26,683 | 32.37% | 55,755 | 67.63% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1960 | 39,361 | 47.51% | 43,487 | 52.49% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1956 | xl,340 | 60.eleven% | 26,774 | 39.89% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1952 | 33,825 | 56.36% | 26,194 | 43.64% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1948 | 21,616 | 49.53% | 21,397 | 49.03% | 625 | i.43% |
| 1944 | 23,866 | 48.59% | 25,254 | 51.41% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1940 | 23,422 | 47.55% | 25,831 | 52.45% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1936 | 15,906 | 37.29% | 24,393 | 57.19% | 2,357 | 5.53% |
| 1932 | 20,897 | 51.00% | 18,753 | 45.77% | 1,321 | iii.22% |
| 1928 | 24,386 | 63.83% | 13,607 | 35.62% | 212 | 0.55% |
| 1924 | 17,062 | 61.43% | 3,965 | 14.28% | 6,747 | 24.29% |
| 1920 | 18,125 | 65.84% | 8,640 | 31.39% | 764 | 2.78% |
| 1916 | vi,868 | 45.66% | seven,658 | l.91% | 516 | 3.43% |
| 1912 | 2,226 | 16.34% | 4,591 | 33.71% | 6,804 | 49.95% |
| 1908 | 8,699 | 57.ten% | five,460 | 35.84% | one,076 | 7.06% |
| 1904 | nine,001 | lxx.xvi% | 2,700 | 21.04% | 1,129 | 8.80% |
| 1900 | 8,497 | 61.93% | 4,989 | 36.36% | 235 | one.71% |
| 1896 | 7,801 | 63.28% | iv,367 | 35.43% | 159 | 1.29% |
| 1892 | v,434 | 56.60% | iii,674 | 38.27% | 492 | five.13% |
| 1888 | 5,235 | 57.32% | iii,311 | 36.25% | 587 | 6.43% |
| 1884 | 5,478 | 60.thirty% | 3,199 | 35.21% | 408 | 4.49% |
| 1880 | five,609 | 66.25% | 2,752 | 32.51% | 105 | 1.24% |
| 1876 | 5,187 | 65.28% | two,720 | 34.23% | 39 | 0.49% |
| 1872 | 4,432 | 67.71% | 2,097 | 32.03% | 17 | 0.26% |
| 1868 | 4,443 | 69.72% | i,930 | thirty.28% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1864 | iv,600 | 73.65% | i,646 | 26.35% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1860 | four,045 | 66.89% | i,766 | 29.twenty% | 236 | 3.90% |
| 1856 | 3,604 | 70.97% | 1,420 | 27.96% | 54 | 1.06% |
Education [edit]
Higher education [edit]
- Lorain County Community College, Elyria
- Oberlin College, Oberlin
Public school districts [edit]
There are 20 public school districts in Lorain County. Those primarily in Lorain County are listed in bold. Each district's high schoolhouse(south) and location is also listed.
- Amherst Exempted Hamlet School District
- Amherst Marion L. Steele High Schoolhouse, Amherst
- Avon Local Schoolhouse Commune
- Avon High School, Avon
- Avon Lake City School District
- Avon Lake High Schoolhouse, Avon Lake
- Black River Local Schoolhouse Commune (likewise in Medina Co and Ashland Co.)
- Black River High Schoolhouse, Sullivan
- Clearview Local School District
- Clearview High School, Lorain
- Columbia Local School District
- Columbia High School, Columbia Station
- Elyria City School District
- Elyria Loftier School, Elyria
- Firelands Local School Commune (also in Erie Co.)
- Firelands High School, Henrietta Twp (Oberlin)
- Keystone Local School Commune
- Keystone High Schoolhouse, LaGrange
- Lorain City School District
- Lorain High Schoolhouse, Lorain
- Mapleton Local Schoolhouse Commune (Primarily in Ashland Co.)
- Mapleton High Schoolhouse, Ashland
- Midview Local School District
- Midview High School, Eaton Twp (Grafton)
- New London Local School District (primarily in Huron Co.)
- New London Loftier School, New London
- Northward Ridgeville City Schoolhouse District
- N Ridgeville High Schoolhouse, Due north Ridgeville
- Oberlin City Schoolhouse Commune
- Oberlin High School, Oberlin
- Olmsted Falls City Schools (primarily in Cuyahoga Co.)
- Olmsted Falls High School, Olmsted Falls
- Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City School District
- Brookside Loftier Schoolhouse, Sheffield
- Strongsville City School Commune (primarily in Cuyahoga Co.)
- Strongsville High School, Strongsville
- Vermilion Local Schools (primarily in Erie Co.)
- Vermilion High School, Vermilion
- Wellington Exempted Hamlet School District (too in Huron Co.)
- Wellington High Schoolhouse, Wellington
The county also includes the Lorain Canton Joint Vocational School District, which encompasses the unabridged county and serves students from the Amherst, Avon, Avon Lake, Clearview, Columbia, Elyria, Firelands, Keystone, Midview, Due north Ridgeville, Oberlin, Sheffield-Sheffield Lake and Wellington school districts from a ten-acre campus on a 100-acre site near the intersection of State Route 58 and U.S. Road 20 in Oberlin.[17]
Individual high schools [edit]
- Elyria Catholic High Schoolhouse, Elyria
- Lake Ridge Academy, North Ridgeville
- Open Door Christian School, Elyria
- Christian Community Schoolhouse, North Eaton
- First Baptist Christian School, Elyria
Communities [edit]
Map of Lorain County, Ohio With Municipal and Township Labels
Cities [edit]
- Amherst
- Avon
- Avon Lake
- Elyria (county seat)
- Lorain
- North Ridgeville
- Oberlin
- Sheffield Lake
- Vermilion
Villages [edit]
- Grafton
- Kipton
- LaGrange
- Rochester
- Sheffield
- South Amherst
- Wellington
Townships [edit]
- Amherst
- Brighton
- Brownhelm
- Camden
- Carlisle
- Columbia
- Eaton
- Elyria
- Grafton
- Henrietta
- Huntington
- LaGrange
- New Russia
- Penfield
- Pittsfield
- Rochester
- Sheffield
- Wellington
https://web.archive.org/web/20160715023447/http://world wide web.ohiotownships.org/township-websites
Census-designated places [edit]
- Eaton Estates
- Pheasant Run
Unincorporated communities [edit]
- Belden
- Brentwood Lake
- Brighton
- Columbia Hills Corners
- Columbia Station
- Henrietta
- North Eaton
- Pittsfield
- Whiskyville
Run across also [edit]
- National Register of Celebrated Places listings in Lorain County, Ohio
- USS Lorain County (LST-1177)
References [edit]
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the U.s.a.. U.South. Government Press Office. p. 190.
- ^ 2020 demography
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Ohio: Private County Chronologies". Ohio Atlas of Historical Canton Boundaries. The Newberry Library. 2007. Archived from the original on April half dozen, 2016. Retrieved Feb 14, 2015.
- ^ Sandusky Register (paper); Sandusky, Ohio, 1822
- ^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". Us Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
- ^ "U.S. Decennial Demography". U.s.a. Demography Bureau. Retrieved Feb 8, 2015.
- ^ "Historical Census Browser". Academy of Virginia Library. Retrieved February eight, 2015.
- ^ Forstall, Richard L., ed. (March 27, 1995). "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
- ^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). U.s.a. Census Bureau. April 2, 2001. Retrieved February eight, 2015.
- ^ 2020 census
- ^ a b c "DP-1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February thirteen, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County". United states Census Bureau. Archived from the original on Feb 13, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ "DP02 SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". Us Demography Bureau. Archived from the original on Feb 13, 2020. Retrieved Dec 27, 2015.
- ^ "DP03 SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". Usa Census Agency. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip'due south Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org . Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- ^ JVS. "Lorain County JVS - Near the Lorain County JVS". www.lcjvs.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
External links [edit]
- Lorain County Government's website
- Lorain Canton Sheriff'south Function
- Lorain Canton Historical Society's website
- Lorain Canton History Projection
- LorainCounty.com
Coordinates: 41°28′N 82°09′Westward / 41.47°N 82.15°W / 41.47; -82.15
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorain_County,_Ohio
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