County statistics

U.S. Census Population Statistics, Wayne County and Wooster City

Census data from 1820 thru 1970 comes from the Ohio Population Report as given by Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Secretary of State 1980. The 1810 Census data comes from Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, volume 2 page 833.

CENSUS YEAR	COUNTY POPULATION	WOOSTER POPULATION
1810	320	NA
1820	11,933	467
1830	23,333	977
1840	35,808	1,913
1850	32,981	2,797
1860	32,483	3,361
1870	35,116	5,419
1880	40,076	5,840
1890	39,005	5,901
1900	37,870	6,063
1910	38,058	6,136
1920	41,346	8,204
1930	47,024	10,742
1940	50,20	11,543
1950	58,716	14,005
1960	75,497	17,046
1970	87,123	18,703
1980	97,408	19,289
1990	101,461	22,427
2000	111,564	24,811

U.S. Census Population Statistics, Minor Civil Divisions

Census data for 1970 and 1980 comes from the Ohio Population Report as given by Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Secretary of State 1980, page 118. Census data from 1920 thru 1960 comes from the Ohio Population Report as given by Ted W. Brown, Secretary of State 1960, page 141. Census data from 1890 thru 1910 comes from the Wooster Daily Record on 6 August 1920 page 6. The article title is "Detailed Census Figures Show Losses and Gains in Wayne Co."

Minor Civil Div	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980
Baughman Township	1,951	2,497	2,731	2,952	3,040	3,259	3,655	4,427	4,531	4,539
Marshallville Total	366	367	294	295	324	373	458	611	693	788
Marshallville (Baughman)	-	-	-	248	272	311	352	476	568	665
Marshallville (Chippewa)	-	-	-	47	52	62	106	135	125	123
Orrville Total	1,765	1,901	3,101	4,107	4,427	4,484	5,153	6,511	7,408	7,511
Orrville (Baughman)	-	-	-	1,259	1,228	1,246	1,515	1,763	1,671	1,405
Orrville (Green)	-	-	-	2,848	3,199	3,238	3,638	4,748	5,737	6,106
Canaan Township	2,331	2,401	2,484	2,209	2,339	2,558	2,828	3,172	3,616	4,092
Burbank Total	331	325	351	300	299	348	393	324	354	365
Burbank (Canaan)	-	-	-	236	238	269	303	262	259	228
Burbank (Congress)	-	-	-	64	61	79	90	62	95	137
Creston (Canaan)	584	893	970	894	1,029	1,110	1,300	1,522	1,792	1,828
Chester Township	1,837	1,684	1,420	1,311	1,422	1,417	1,500	1,788	2,195	2,680
Chippewa Township	3,078	2,937	2,519	2,786	3,162	3,377	3,915	5,315	7,392	9,250
Doylestown (Chippewa)	1,131	1,057	877	1,037	1,150	1,259	1,358	1,873	2,373	2,493
Clinton Township	2,123	2,028	1,912	1,980	1,970	2,073	2,211	2,569	2,938	2,913
Shreve (Clinton)	1,012	1,043	1,016	1,094	1,103	1,113	1,287	1,617	1,635	1,608
Congress Township	2,603	2,407	2,279	1,948	1,952	2,101	2,366	2,618	2,779	3,724
Congress (Congress)	229	198	164	123	126	157	186	186	205	178
West Salem (Congress)	756	656	642	363	645	700	860	1,017	1,058	1,357
East Union Township	2,007	1,805	1,725	1,694	1,806	2,645	3,169	5,509	6,363	5,887
Apple Creek (East Union)	428	387	400	382	459	510	548	722	784	741
Franklin Township	1,323	1,202	1,041	1,074	1,109	1,209	1,333	1,788	2,225	2,815
Green Township	2,150	3,318	4,125	4,656	5,256	5,332	5,840	7,850	9,476	10,980
Smithville (Green)	482	474	447	482	582	617	755	1,024	1,278	1,467
Killbuck Township* (Wooster City)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18,703	19,289
Milton Township	1,846	1,978	2,620	3,411	4,699	4,789	6,108	7,767	8,813	8,872
Rittman Total	-	-	-	1,803	2,785	2,770	3,810	5,410	6,308	6,063
Rittman in Wayne County (Milton)	-	-	-	1,803	2,785	2,770	3,810	5,410	6,261	5,998
Rittman in Medina County		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	47	65
Paint Township	1,333	1,276	1,227	1,280	1,246	1,289	1,398	1,706	1,796	2,107
Mt. Eaton (Paint)	278	232	208	177	171	200	203	265	242	289
Plain Township	838	666	1,545	1,494	1,532	1,514	1,618	1,820	2,014	2,336
Salt Creek Township	1,735	1,556	1,442	1,358	1,374	,1550	1,588	1,876	2,087	2,709
Fredericksburg (Salt Creek)	600	511	507	480	483	485	517	565	601	511
Sugar Creek Township	2,228	2,274	2,309	2,320	2,569	2,706	3,102	3,863	4,806	5,576
Dalton (Sugar Creek)	610	666	599	611	656	774	938	1,067	1,177	1,357
Wayne Township	1,756	1,717	1,556	1,595	2,038	2,475	3,460	6,850	3605	5538
Bloomington (Wayne)	-	-	-	204	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wooster Township	7,101	1,760	7,123	9,269	11,510	12,226	14,625	16,579	3,887	4,101
Wooster City Total	5,901	6,063	6,136	8,204	10,742	11,543	14,005	17,046	18,703	19,289
Wooster, Ward 1	-	-	1,639	1,825	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wooster, Ward 2	-	-	1,428	1,942	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wooster, Ward 3	-	-	1,652	2,580	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wooster, Ward 4	-	-	1,417	1,857	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wooster City (Wayne)	-	-	-	-	555	822	1,549	3,795	-	-
Wooster City (Wooster)	-	-	-	8,204	10,187	10,721	12,456	13,251	-	-

• Note: Killbuck Township erected since 1960; coextensive with Wooster City which returned in Wayne and Wooster townships in 1960, 1950, 1940, 1930, 1920.