About Cleveland and the many communities and neighborhoods.
Image: Perkins Beach in the city’s Edgwater neighborhood.
Cleveland is a major American city, rich with cultural amenities and employment opportunities and a wealth of variety in the types of communities in which to live and types of housing available. Metropolitan Cleveland is the largest population and economy in the state of Ohio, with about 3 million people and a GDP of $207B (25th largest in the US). Per Nielsen Media Research, Cleveland is the 19th largest media market in the US with 1.6 million households. For more about Cleveland—and its location, economy, culture, innovation, climate, and history, visit the Center for Cleveland.
The City, surrounding suburban Cuyahoga County, and the six outer counties (Lorain, Medina, Summit, Portage, Geauga, and Lake) offer a profound variety of homes and communities, which our expertise can help you find the perfect home and neighborhood for you—whether the priorities are schools, parks, proximity to the lake, proximity to work or school, levels of snow (the east and west side of Cleveland are very different when it comes to snow!), average home price, density, walkability, rail transit, desired '“vibe” (urban / suburban / country), and other priorities.
As we find the perfect home—in the perfect neighborhood—for you, a New York Times study showed that Cleveland is experiencing a “brain gain.” As the US population moves from city to city, there have been more college-educated people moving to Cleveland than leaving, and losing those without a college degree. This trend has been occurring since 2020. See full article “Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too” here and the graphic below from the article:
Why is Cleveland suddenly getting so popular again? In the early 20th Century, Cleveland was booming and by 1920 was America’s 5th largest city. But by 1950 the city began seeing population losses as jobs moved abroad, highways were built, and suburbanization began destroying American cities. But now the city and the suburbs are flourishing again! Given the post-pandemic ability to work from home where workers can live anywhere and are no longer tied to expensive East- and West-coast cities, yet can get such wages, the increasing unaffordability of East- and West- Coast Cities, and the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change like frequent and destructive storms, Cleveland stands as a jewel—very affordable, world-class educational, health, and cultural amenities, and deemed protected from storms and rising sea levels, even though Cleveland is a coastal city!
Bank of America just released a report, using their data, showing the migration trends to Cleveland. “According to Bank of America internal data and continuing a trend that started at the beginning of the pandemic, people are moving from higher priced areas in the West and the Northeast, to relatively less expensive cities in the South and Midwest….” Cleveland ranked 4th in the US as a city to migrate to where Bank of America is seeing trends, beating out Austin, Las Vegas, Phoenix, North Carolina, Houston, Dallas, Jacksonville and other recently-common cities to move to. See the full report, dated Oct 30, 2024, here.
A graphic from the Bank of America study on US population migration is below. Though Cleveland is 4th, the first three cities are landlocked and do not enjoy coastal living!
