Sunday, December 03, 2006

Demographic Profile for Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH

By measuring total land area, the Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor metro area covers a total land area of 2004 square miles. The MSA has a very high average area density of 1,061 persons per square mile. Other metro areas with similar densities in the US include: -- more densely populated -- Detroit-Warren-Livonia (1,147 per sq. mile ), Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington (1,258 per sq. mile ), Boston-Cambridge-Quincy (1,258 per sq. mile ), -- less densely populated -- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach (1,058 per sq. mile ), Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater (1,037 per sq. mile ), Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis (1,036 per sq. mile ).

From 2000, a medium-high number of individuals have migrated into the Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor metro area, with 19,524 people migrating in internationally. The international migration into Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor totals 26 percent of all immigration into Ohio. This percent of international migration is medium-high when analyzed against the base population in the year 2005 and compared to other metro areas across the US.

The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor metro area had a population of 2,126,318 in 2005. The total population has decreased, since its 2000 population of 2,148,161. The decline signifies a decrease of -1 percent. Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor ranks 12 of 12 MSAs when calculating total change in population for Ohio and the metro area ranks 359 of 361 metro areas in terms of population growth in the United States.

The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor metropolitan statistical area (MSA) has a population that is made of 73.6 percent White, 19.5 percent African American, 1.7 percent Asian, and 3.8 percent Hispanic. The area population base can be described as having a high amount of racial and ethnic diversity, with 25.0 percent of the population made up of minorities. This is greater than the State of Ohio percent of 15.5. Since 2000, Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor has increased the percent of minority population when 24.0 percent of the population was made up of minorities.



Datasource: Population Estimates Program, U.S. Bureau of the Census.

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