Franklin County is Booming: Largest in Ohio

According to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau, Ohio’s most populous county is no longer Cuyahoga County (the one Cleveland is in) but the one Franklin County.

The U.S. CB estimates have Cuyahoga County dropping about 5.7k people last year while Franklin County gained over 14k residents. That would leave each county with a population of more than 1.2 million people, with Franklin County ahead by roughly 15,000. Woo!

Cleveland.com reports that a contributing factor in the Cleveland area’s population loss was…wait for it—people moving elsewhere. The bureau estimates that more than 10,000 Cuyahoga County residents moved elsewhere in Ohio or to another state. The counties anchored by Akron, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo also lost residents to so-called domestic migration, in smaller numbers.

The statewide population held relatively steady at more than 11.6 million.

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