Is population growing or shrinking?

Refreshed annually
It shrank by 459 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Scioto County, OH’s 0.64% annual decrease was primarily driven by deaths outpacing births.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Scioto County, OH’s population shrank by 7.3%.

-459

population change (2024 to 2025)

-0.64%

percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Scioto County, OH’s population increased 4 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2009 and 2010, when Scioto County, OH gained 3,300 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2019 and 2020 when there were 1,200 fewer residents.

Scioto County, OH lost 459 residents between 2024 and 2025.

Annual population change, 2001–2025

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What contributes to population change in Scioto County, OH?

A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
  • Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in Scioto County, OH, with deaths exceeding births by 360.
  • Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Scioto County, OH’s population change from immigration was positive with about 28 more people coming from another country directly to Scioto County, OH than leaving.
  • Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Scioto County, OH’s population change from domestic migration was negative with about 129 more people moving to any other county in the US.

Between 2024 and 2025, natural change was the primary driver of population decline in Scioto County, OH.

Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025

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