Ohio
Ohio: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 11,900,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Ohio at a glance
Rolled up from the 21 regions inside Ohio on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads Ohio, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 11,900,510 persons (Census Bureau annual state estimate; FRED OHPOP, thousands 11,900.510) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 976,871.7 USD millions, current dollars (BEA GDP by State) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.4 % seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 85,150 USD current dollars (Census CPS ASEC 'Income and Poverty in the United States') (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 70.3 % (Census Housing Vacancies and Homeownership, annual) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 46,800 USD average debt per person with a credit score (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax via USAFacts); not per household (2025) ↗
Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus (Central Ohio MLS footprint) ↗ | 334,250 USD | median sale | 2026-09 |
| Columbus, OH (CBSA) ↗ | 374,950 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-09 |
| Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (CBSA) ↗ | 347,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-09 |
| Cleveland (Cuyahoga County) ↗ | 222,450 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com, county level) | 2026-09 |
| Akron, OH (CBSA) ↗ | 233,750 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-09 |
| Toledo, OH (CBSA) ↗ | 219,675 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-09 |
| Ohio statewide ↗ | 274,900 USD | median sale (Ohio REALTORS, MLS closings) | 2026-09 |
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
Largest companies in Ohio
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Health (Dublin) ↗ | revenue | 226,827 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, #15) | 2025 |
| Kroger (Cincinnati) ↗ | revenue | 147,123 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, #27) | 2025 |
| Marathon Petroleum (Findlay) ↗ | revenue | 140,412 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, #29) | 2025 |
| Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati) ↗ | revenue | 84,039 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, #51) | 2025 |
| Progressive (Mayfield Village) ↗ | revenue | 75,372 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, #57) | 2025 |
| Nationwide Mutual Insurance (Columbus) ↗ | revenue | 58,646 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, #72) | 2025 |
Worth knowing
- 2026-11Democrat Amy Acton (running mate David Pepper) won the Nov 3, 2026 governor's race with about 52.3% to Vivek Ramaswamy's 44.4% (unofficial until certified). She will be Ohio's first woman elected governor and takes office Jan 11, 2027, succeeding the term-limited Mike DeWine. ↗
- 2026-11Democrat Sherrod Brown defeated incumbent Republican Jon Husted in the 2026 U.S. Senate special election, about 50.0% to 45.2% (unofficial). Democrat Allison Russo won Secretary of State. ↗
- 2026-09Ohio home sales fell 4.4% year over year to 11,311 in September 2026, while the statewide median sale price rose 5.7% to $274,900. Supply stood at 3.74 months. ↗
- 2025Mortgages made up about 61.4% of all household debt in Ohio in 2025. The average Ohioan with a credit score owed about $16,400 less than the average American. ↗
- 2024Of the U.S. speakers of 'Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages', 11.0% live in Ohio (Amish country), the largest share of any language for which Ohio accounts. ↗
Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
- Spanish283,123 · 2.4%
- Other Indo-European languages126,130 · 1.1%
- German or other West Germanic languages100,144 · 0.9%
- Other and unspecified languages79,649 · 0.7%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages59,920 · 0.5%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages47,640 · 0.4%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)46,164 · 0.4%
- Arabic45,213 · 0.4%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun34,270 · 0.3%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)14,876 · 0.1%
- Vietnamese13,153 · 0.1%
- Korean9,175 · 0.1%
Largest places in Ohio
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Columbus, Ohio full905,748
- 2.Cleveland, Ohio full372,624
- 3.Cincinnati, Ohio full309,317
- 4.Toledo, Ohio full270,871
- 5.Akron, Ohio full190,469
- 6.Dayton, Ohio full137,644
- 7.Canton, Ohio full70,872
- 8.Lorain, Ohio full65,211
- 9.Youngstown, Ohio full60,068
- 10.Springfield, Ohio full58,662
- 11.Dublin, Ohio49,328
- 12.Mansfield, Ohio full47,534
- 13.Findlay, Ohio full40,313
- 14.Lima, Ohio full35,579
- 15.Brunswick, Ohio full35,426
Inside Ohio
21 regions have Ohio as their parent.
Companies based in Ohio
268 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Ohio. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Ohio are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.