Cuyahoga County is still the 35th most populous county in the country, the same rank it held based on 2018 Census numbers, but it continues to lose population.
The latest Census estimates, released last week, put the county’s population loss at 6,646 between 2018 and 2019 and the seven-county Cleveland-Akron population loss at 5,722 over the same period. (Only Lake, Medina and Lorain counties saw increases, and those numbers were in the low hundreds.)
With approximately 1,235,072 residents, the county is down some 45,000 since 2010, one of only four counties in the top 35 to drop during the decade.
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And with the continuous mass exodus of residents, guess what also leaves??? …what little tax base there is in this corruption-filled city and county!!!
So our illustrious local leaders will do nothing except raise our outrageous taxes even more to make up for the shortfalls!!!
Many communities have gov’ts allowing bad mayors to run their own little fiefdoms with no care or concern with their citizens. Pepper Pike is horrible, the mayor makes changes to the community and imposes his unnecessary expensive whims on citizens and making false claims of community benefits. Then there is the excessive spending of students at Orange Schools yet they under perform compared to other students. It is no wonder people are leaving.
The land is another failed democrat run cesspool.
Your chances of staying alive are better here than in New York.