According to the
2020 United States Census, the population was 2.186 million in the five-county MSA of the Greater Cleveland Area, making it the second largest metropolitan-statistical area entirely within the state of Ohio. Approximately 48.1% of the population was male and 51.9% were female. In 2010 the racial makeup of the five-county Area was 71.7% (1,490,074)
Non-Hispanic Whites, 19.7% (409,582)
Blacks or African Americans, 0.2% (4,056)
American Indians and Alaskan Natives, 2.0% (40,522)
Asian (0.7%
Asian Indian 0.5%
Chinese 0.2%
Filipino, 0.1%
Korean, 0.1%
Vietnamese, 0.1%
Japanese, 0.0% (398) Pacific Islander, 1.7% (35,224) from other races, and 2.0% (42,130) from
two or more races. 4.7% (98,133) of the population were
Hispanic or Latino of any race (2.8%
Puerto Rican, 1.0%
Mexican, 0.1%
Dominican, and 0.1%
Cuban). satellite photograph of Cleveland at night The median income for a household in Greater Cleveland was $46,231 and the median income for a family, $59,611. The per capita income was $25,668. Persons living below the poverty line was 15.1%. According to a study by Capgemini and the World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch, the Cleveland area has nearly 54,000 millionaire households, and is expected to continue to grow at 17% over the next five years. The Greater Cleveland area is the most diverse region in the state of Ohio and is becoming increasingly more diverse with new waves of
immigration. As of 2010, both the Hispanic and Asian population in the Cleveland-Akron-Ashtabula area grew by almost 40%, Hispanics now number at 112,307 (up from 80,738 in 2000). The Asian population alone accounts for 55,087 (up from 39,586 in 2000) but people who cite Asian and other ethnicities enumerate 67,231. The Chinese Americans are the oldest Asian group residing in Northeast Ohio, most visible in Cleveland's
Asiatown. Nevertheless, the area is also home to hundreds of Indians, Thais, Taiwanese, Pakistanis, Laotians, Cambodians, and Burmese peoples as well. The Cleveland area has a substantial
African American population with origins in the
First and
Second Great Migrations. It also boasts some of the nation's largest
Irish,
Italian (numbering over 205,000), Slavic, and
Hungarian populations. At one time, the
Hungarian population of Cleveland proper was so great that the city boasted of having the highest concentration of Hungarians in the world outside of
Budapest. Today, the Greater Cleveland area is home to the largest Slovak, Slovene, and Hungarian communities in the world, outside of
Slovakia,
Slovenia, and
Hungary respectively. The Slavic population of the Cleveland-Akron area comprises 17.2%, far higher than the nation's rate of 6%. There are 171,000 Poles, 38,000 Slovaks, 66,000 Slovenes, 38,000 Czechs, 31,000 Russians, and 23,000 Ukrainians in Greater Cleveland.
Slavic Village and
Tremont historically had some of the largest concentrations of Eastern Europeans within Cleveland proper. Today, both neighborhoods continue to be home to many Slavic Ohioans. In addition, Slovenia maintains a Consulate-General in
Downtown Cleveland. The city of Cleveland has also received visits from the Presidents of Hungary and Poland. Greater Cleveland is home to a sizable
Jewish community. According to the North American Jewish Data Bank, the community comprises an estimated 100,000 people or 4.6% as of 2023, above the nation's 1.7%, and up from 81,500 in 1996. The highest proportion is in Cuyahoga County at 5.5% (of the county's total population). Today, 23% of Greater Cleveland's Jewish population is under the age of 17, and 27% reside in the Heights area (Cleveland Heights,
Shaker Heights, and
University Heights). In 2010 nearly 2,600 people spoke
Hebrew and 1,100
Yiddish.
Ancestry The top largest ancestries in the Greater Cleveland MSA, were the following: •
German: 20.4% • Slavic: 18.9% (8.2%
Polish, 3.2%
Slovene, 1.8%
Slovak, 1.5%
Czech, 1.5%
Russian, 1.1%
Ukrainian, 1.0%
Croatian, 0.4%
Serbian,
Rusyn,
Yugoslav) •
Irish: 14.5% •
British: 11.3% (8.0%
English, 1.8%
Scottish, 0.8%
Scot-Irish, 0.7%
Welsh) •
Italian: 9.9% •
Jewish 4.6% •
Hungarian: 3.7% •
Puerto Rican: 2.8% •
French and
French Canadian: 1.9% •
Scandinavian: 1.2% (0.7%
Swedish, 0.3%
Norwegian, and
Danish)
Place of birth Approximately 94.1% of the metropolitan area's population was native to the United States. Approximately 92.8% were born in the U.S. while 1.3% were born in
Puerto Rico, a
U.S. territory, or born abroad to American parents. The rest of the population (5.9%) were foreign-born. The highest percentages of immigrants came from Europe (46.2%), Asia (32.7%), Latin America (14.3%); smaller percentages of newcomers came from Africa (3.6%), other parts of North America (3.0%), and Oceania (0.3%).
Languages English is by far the most commonly spoken language at home by residents in the Cleveland-Akron-Elyria area; approximately 91.2% of the population over the age of five spoke only English at home.
Spanish speakers made up 2.8% of the population; speakers of
Asian languages made up 1.1% of the population; speakers of other
Indo-European languages made up 3.9% of the population. Individuals who spoke languages other than the ones above represented the remaining 1.0% of the populace. As of 2011, individually in addition to English, 2.7% spoke
Spanish, 0.6%
German, 0.5%
Arabic, and 0.5%
Chinese. 1.4% also spoke a
Slavic language. In 2007, Cleveland area was home to the nation's 3rd highest proportion of
Hungarian speakers. == Politics ==