CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Census 2010 numbers released Wednesday show Cleveland's population has fallen to a 100-year low of 396,815. But the eight-county Cleveland-Akron metro area has experienced little change over the last 50 years.

Cleveland, which numbered more than 900,000 people in 1950, had slipped below the 500,000 threshold with census 2000 when it dropped to 478,403.

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The new census numbers show Cleveland lost another 81,588 people, or 17.1 percent, since 2000.

Regionally, there has been little change over the last half-century as people move from one county to another, and new residents haven't made up for the loss of others.

The latest numbers show the eight-county Cleveland-Akron metro area has 2,881,937 people. This is a 2.2 percent drop from 2000.

Cleveland's history

Census Pop. U.S. Rank 1840 6,071 67 1850 17,034 41 1860 43,417 21 1870 92,829 15 1880 160,146 11 1890 261,353 10 1900 381,768 7 1910 560,663 6 1920 796,841 5 1930 900,429 6 1940 878,336 6 1950 914,808 7 1960 876,050 8 1970 750,903 10 1980 573,822 18 1990 505,615 23 2000 477,472 33 2010 396,815 NA

Here is a decade-by-decade breakdown for the metro area, which consists of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties.

1940 - 1,886,863

1950 - 2,233,237

1960 - 2,825,417

1970 - 3,098,048

1980 - 2,938,627

1990 - 2,859,644

2000 - 2,945,832

2010 - 2,881,937

Within the region, however, there has been considerable shifting of the population. Here are how the counties have changed since 2000.

Ashtabula County - 101,497, down 1.2 percent from 102,728

Cuyahoga County - 1,280,122, down 8.2 percent from 1,393,979.

Geauga County - 93,389, up 2.7 percent from 94,753.

Lake County - 230,041, up 1.1 percent from 227,511.

Lorain County - 301,356, up 5.9 percent from 284,664.

Medina County - 172,332, up 14.1 percent from 151,095.

Portage County - 161,419, up 6.2 percent from 152,061.

Summit County - 541,781, down 0.2 percent from 542,899.

Scroll over the map below for county-by-county details.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau.