Mentor

Population & Demographics

Mentor, OH

Mentor is home to 47,171 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 23,088 resident workers commute each day.

OhioCensus ACS 5-Year · LODES 2023
47,171
people
Population

47,171 residents

Median age 46.5 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).

Mentor population & demographics

Who lives in Mentor — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
47,171
Median age
46.5yrs
Median household income
$88,949
Median home value
$247,700
Median gross rent
$1,239/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
36.6%
Poverty rate
5.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Race & ethnicity in Mentor

How Mentor breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).

White88.5%
Two or more races3.7%
Asian3.4%
Hispanic or Latino2.3%
Black1.8%
Some other race0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander0.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native0.0%

Race across Mentor

Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Mentor.

Mentor at a glance
Employed Residents
23,088
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
16.6mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
23.9%
Share working within the area
Work from home
14.7%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Cleveland
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Mentor proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Mentor commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

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Commute Score

68 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Mentor

23,088 commutes, one dot at a time

Mentor

Where 23,088 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Mentor, by worker count.

1Mentor0.0 mi5,508
2Cleveland22.2 mi2,858
3Willoughby4.5 mi1,503
4Euclid11.3 mi743
5Painesville5.0 mi670
6Mayfield Heights13.2 mi552
7Eastlake5.3 mi457
8Wickliffe8.7 mi451

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Mentor.

1Mentor0.0 mi5,508
2Painesville5.0 mi1,783
3Willoughby4.5 mi1,491
4Cleveland22.2 mi1,292
5Eastlake5.3 mi1,216
6Mentor-on-the-Lake2.1 mi896
7Willowick7.6 mi893
8Euclid11.3 mi845

Top industries

The sectors that employ Mentor’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
MFManufacturing29.6%
RTRetail Trade13.9%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance11.9%
AFAccommodation and Food Services9.8%
WSWholesale Trade5.5%
EDEducational Services4.4%
MGManagement of Companies and Enterprises3.8%
COConstruction3.5%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services3.5%
Connectivity

Internet options for Mentor

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

6 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps100%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Mentor

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).