Geauga County area

Population and density of Geauga County

The Census Bureau estimates that 95,676 people lived in Geauga County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #653 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #29 of 88 in Ohio. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 95,435, the population has grown by 241 (+0.3%), compared with +0.9% for Ohio as a whole.

With 400.4 square miles of land, that is 239 people per square mile (92 per km²), placing Geauga County #587 nationally for density and #26 in Ohio. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Ohio median is 120. Put another way, there are about 2.7 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Geauga County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Geauga County. Together they are home to 13,792 people (14.4%); the other 81,884 (85.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Chardon city, with 5,251 residents in the county. By land, Hunting Valley village is the largest at 7.892 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Burton village grew fastest since then (+0.8%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Geauga County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Geauga County is a central county of the Cleveland, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 6 county equivalents have 2,165,775 residents on 2,701.5 square miles of land; Geauga County accounts for 14.8% of the land and 4.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #115 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #35 by population. It belongs to the Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

20 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Geauga County; 11 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

4402144022440234402444026440464405744060440624406444065440724408044086440944409944202442314423444491

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Geauga County

Geauga County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Ashtabula County (702.4 mi²) and the smallest is Lake County (229.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Geauga County forms a block of 2,894.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.8%.

How big is Geauga County compared with U.S. states?

Geauga County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.6 times as much. Ohio’s county land could hold about 102 areas the size of Geauga County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20 miles (32.2 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Geauga County?

Geauga County has more land than 696 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Geauga County at #2,557 nationally by total area, 31 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Geauga County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.