Medina County area

Population and density of Medina County

The Census Bureau estimates that 185,025 people lived in Medina County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #381 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #17 of 88 in Ohio. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 182,472, the population has grown by 2,553 (+1.4%), compared with +0.9% for Ohio as a whole.

With 421.5 square miles of land, that is 439 people per square mile (170 per km²), placing Medina County #382 nationally for density and #15 in Ohio. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Ohio median is 120. Put another way, there are about 1.5 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 Medina County

11 incorporated places lie at least partly in Medina County. Together they are home to 93,860 people (50.7%); the other 91,165 (49.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Brunswick city, with 35,114 residents in the county. The county seat, Medina city, has 25,692 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Wadsworth city grew fastest since then (+2.9%).

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

Metropolitan area

Medina 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; Medina County accounts for 15.6% of the land and 8.5% 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

24 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Medina County; 13 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

440904414944203442124421444215442174423044233442354425144253442544425644270442734427444275442804428144287443214433344880

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 Medina County

Medina County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Wayne County (555 mi²) and the smallest is Summit County (412.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Medina County forms a block of 2,759.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.3%.

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

Medina County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.5 times as much. Ohio’s county land could hold about 97 areas the size of Medina County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.5 miles (33 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 Medina County?

Medina County has more land than 820 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 Medina County at #2,479 nationally by total area, 77 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 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 percentage points lower. 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 Medina 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.