Overall Numbers

Poverty and Homelessness in Ohio--2007

Ohio’s biggest cities and those surrounding Cuyahoga County

 

County	Major City	Total Population	Percentage of total population living in poverty	Number living in poverty	Estimated Number of Homeless people in 2007*
Cuyahoga	Cleveland	1,295,958	15.5%	200,873	20,087
Franklin	Columbus	1,118,107	16.3%	182,251	18,225
Hamilton	Cincinnati	842,369	12.8%	107,823	10,782
Montgomery	Dayton	538,104	14.8%	79,639	7,964
Summit	Akron	543,487	14.1%	76,632	7,663
Lucas	Toledo	441,910	16.7%	73,799	7,380
Stark	Canton	378,664	10.7%	40,517	3,849
Mahoning	Youngstown	240,420	16.6%	39,910	3,991
Lorain	Lorain/Elyria	302,260	11.1%	33,551	3,187
Trumbull	Warren	213,475	15.1%	32,235	3,223
Lake	Painesville	233,392	6.5%	15,170	1,365
Portage	Ravenna	155,869	10.7%	16,678	1,584
Columbiana	Lisbon	108,698	15.4%	16,739	1,674
Ashtabula	Jefferson/Ashtabula	101,141	16.2%	16,385	1,638
Medina	Medina	169,832	7.3%	12,398	1,178
Erie	Sandusky	77,323	11.4%	8,815	837
Geauga	Chardon	95,029	4.7%	4,466	402
OHIO	State Total	11,466,917	13.1%	1,502,166	150,217