CLEVELAND, Ohio – Shrinking Cuyahoga County lost another 4,514 residents last year, yet – as the population shifted – there was little change in the total population for the seven-county Cleveland-Akron area, estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show.
Cuyahoga, with the ninth largest drop nationally, now is America’s 35th largest county with an estimated 1,243,857 residents. Cuyahoga ranked 33rd a year earlier, before being passed by Travis County, Texas, and Hennepin County, Minnesota.
At the time of the 2010 census, Cuyahoga ranked 29th nationally and first in Ohio with 1,280,122 residents. Cuyahoga is down 36,265 since then, dropping six spots in the national rankings and to second in Ohio behind Franklin County.
Only Wayne County, Michigan, which includes Detroit, has lost more people since the 2010 census, falling by 66,691 to 1,753,893. Last year, the biggest drop was in Cook County (Chicago), which was down 24,009 but remains the nation’s second largest county.
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