Which ZIP code in Lorain County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?

44074 (Oberlin), at 16.8%, among 19 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.

Why are some ZIP codes missing?

ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Lorain County, OH

These are the 19 ZIP codes in Lorain County with the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year, out of 19 with at least 1,000 residents. 44074 (Oberlin, 16.8%), 44044 (Grafton, 13.1%) and 44054 (Sheffield Lake, 11.9%) lead the list. There is no single "best" ZIP code in Lorain County; the right one depends on who you want to reach, so the same ZIP codes are ranked several ways below.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Lorain County

Rank	ZIP	Mailing city	Moved in the past year	Residents	Households	Residential mailboxes
1	44074	Oberlin	16.8%	11,745	3,807	4,199
2	44044	Grafton	13.1%	14,721	4,262	5,189
3	44054	Sheffield Lake	11.9%	12,806	5,858	5,762
4	44052	Lorain	10.9%	28,282	11,980	12,191
5	44055	Lorain	10.9%	20,043	8,440	7,712
6	44035	Elyria	10.2%	62,179	26,724	29,380
7	44851	New London	10.1%	5,038	1,974	2,151
8	44053	Lorain	8.8%	21,084	8,900	9,817
9	44012	Avon Lake	8.1%	25,752	10,896	11,215
10	44050	Lagrange	7.9%	7,059	2,644	2,714
11	44001	Amherst	7.5%	21,448	8,194	9,114
12	44089	Vermilion	7.3%	15,654	7,076	7,662
13	44039	North Ridgeville	7.2%	36,780	14,162	15,912
14	44011	Avon	6.5%	25,317	9,502	9,491
15	44028	Columbia Station	6.0%	9,671	3,983	4,701
16	44090	Wellington	5.5%	10,670	4,118	4,691
17	44253	Litchfield	4.4%	3,552	1,298	1,391
18	44889	Wakeman	3.8%	7,500	2,752	2,670
19	44880	Sullivan	3.3%	3,143	1,321	1,124

How we ranked them

Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files. ZIP codes need at least 1,000 residents to be ranked; 19 of 20 qualify.

Which of these to mail, and why

New residents are still choosing a dentist, a gym, a pizza place and a lawn service. ZIP codes with high turnover give a welcome offer more people to work on each year.

The top five ZIP codes on this list hold 34,347 households, on 58 carrier routes with 35,053 residential mailboxes. Open any of them on the route map to see each carrier route's own figures before you choose.

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Frequently asked questions

Which ZIP code in Lorain County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?: 44074 (Oberlin), at 16.8%, among 19 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.
How is this ranking calculated?: Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files.
Why are some ZIP codes missing?: ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

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