Lorain County is located in northeastern Ohio. The County Seat is Elyria and the largest city is Lorain. The Official Web Site is located at http://www.loraincounty.us/. The 2014 population estimate is 304,216 and the 2010 census population was 301,356. The land area is 491.10 square miles and there are 613.6 persons per square mile.
87% of the population is White, 8.8% is Black or African American, 8.9% is Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% is Asian, 0.4% is American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.1% is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 2.7% is two or more races. 88.8% have a high school degree or higher, and 22.2% have a Bachelor degree or higher.
The median home value is $140,700, there are 116,705 households, an average of 2.50 persons per household. The per capita income is $26,030, the median household income is $51,816, and 14.6% of the persons in Lorain County are considered below poverty level.
The total number of firms, at last estimate, was 20,283. Retail sales (in $1000) were $3,225,508, and sales per capita were $10,646. The percentage of black-owned firms is 0%, and the percentage of women-owned firms is 27.6%.
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| Lorain County Home Page Use this official home page for Lorain County to find permits, courts, events, social services, GIS maps, public hearings, calendars. |
| Court Records | Common Pleas Lorain County Common Pleas Court calendar of hearings, index of case records, and docket sheets. Cases include civil, criminal, family court (divorce, dissolution, child custody, parentage, annulment), appeals court, domestic violence, foreclosure, and probate appeal cases. |
| Court Records | County Probate Lorain County Probate Court records online query. Includes conservatorships, wills, estates, guardianship, marriage licenses, name changes, trusts, and birth records corrections and registrations. |
| Court Records | Municipal Avon Lake Avon Lake Municipal Court records and hearing dates. Jurisdiction includes Sheffield Village and the Cities of Avon and Avon Lake. |
| Court Records | Municipal Elyria Elyria Municipal court records and schedules of criminal, traffic, civil, and small claims cases. Jurisdiction: townships of Carlisle, Columbia, Eaton, Elyria, Grafton, and Lagrange; cities of Elyria and North Ridgeville; and the villages of Lagrange and Grafton. |
| Court Records | Municipal Lorain City of Lorain Municipal Court records and hearing dates. Includes civil filings, marriage records, misdemeanor criminal, traffic, and small claims cases. Jurisdiction includes the cities of Lorain and Sheffield Lake, and Sheffield Township. |
| Court Records | Municipal Oberlin City of Oberlin Municipal Court court records and hearing schedules for civil, small claims, traffic, and misdemeanor criminal cases. Jurisdiction: cities of Oberlin and Amherst; townships of Amherst, Brighton, Camden, Henrietta, Huntington, New Russia, Penfield, Pittsfield, Rochester, and Wellington; villages of Kipton, Rochester, South Amherst, and Wellington. |
| Court Records | Municipal Vermilion Vermilion Municipal Court records and hearing dates for criminal, traffic, parking, small claims, civil court filings. Jurisdiction: City of Vermilion in Erie and Lorain Counties; and the Townships of Vermilion, Florence, and Brownhelm. |
| Dog Licenses Use this Lorain County Auditor's service to search for lost dog information by tag and license number. |
| Obituaries Search the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library database by name and/or year of death for Northwest Ohio obituaries from the 1830's to the present, including Lorain County. |
| Property Register with the Lorain County Auditor's office to search for property or property sales information by parcel ID, owner name, or address. Initial access at no charge, but a fee is required after 30 days. |
| Registered Offenders Lorain County Sheriff's Office offender registry. |
| Sheriff Sales Browse this list of upcoming Sheriff Sales in Lorain County. |
| Unclaimed Funds Lorain County Court of Common Pleas list of unclaimed funds. |
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