However, a handful of counties in the Buckeye State have seen their population boom in recent years. Ohio is the seventh most populous U.S. state, with a 2023 population of 11,785,935, according ...

Ohio's map, passed in 2011, split 23 counties and 73 cities, townships and other political subdivisions. The result: districts such as the "snake on the lake" stretching from Toledo to ...

The group determined that 54 of Ohio's 88 counties — urban, suburban and rural — meet that standard. Except for Columbus, every big-city county in Ohio was in the left-behind category.