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The Lake Shore Hotel at 12506 Edgewater Drive was Lakewood's first high rise along the Gold Coast. It opened in 1929. This postcard was printed by Duane Harney of Twinsburg in 1960.

(Cleveland State University Library Special Collections)

LAKEWOOD, Ohio - Lakewood, bordering Cleveland along the west side, is the most densely populated city in Ohio, in part because of a series of high-rise apartment and condo buildings on the Gold Coast overlooking Lake Erie.

Incorporated in 1903, Lakewood became a city in 1911. Lakewood covers 5.3 square miles and has a population of 52,131, or just under 9,500 people per square mile, according to the 2010 Census.

Lakewood's population topped 70,000 in 1970. Here is Lakewood's population over the years.

1950 - 68,071

1960 - 66,154

1970 - 70,173

1980 - 61,963

1990 - 59,718

2000 - 56,646

2010 - 52,131

This is one in a series of statistical profiles of Greater Cleveland communities from the Northeast Ohio Media Group.

See city data for other communities in Greater Cleveland.

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