Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Cuyahoga County

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Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located 10 km east of Cleveland, is 21 km ² and had (2000) 49 958 inhabitants, of which 52.5 % white and 41.8 % black. The city has a large Jewish community.

Cleveland Heights was originally a purely dominantly agricultural area that was used by farmers of surrounding townships. The proximity to Cleveland emerged from 1895 onwards various real estate projects in the style of a garden city such as Euclid Heights Euclid Golf, Mayfield Heights and Ambler Heigths. The new residential areas were connected with a tram line to the city and in 1903 spun off as Cleveland Heights.

The population grew in the first four decades of the 20th century from 1,500 to more than 55,000 inhabitants. From about 1920 many Jewish families moved here from Cleveland. 1921 Cleveland Heights became a town.

Since there were no classic city center due to the scheduled opening, emerged in the city area more decentralized scale shopping centers. The largest of them is the Severance Town Center opened in 1963 with (2004) 60,000 square meters of retail space, which describes itself as the first self-contained shopping center Ohio. Notable industry there is not.

In recent decades, high levels of migration movements were recorded. The proportion of the white population declined, and in about the same amount advanced by Black. The proportion of the black population increased from less than 1% ( 1960) to 41.8 % ( 2000). Both groups, however, are evenly distributed throughout the city.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Neal Smith, a jazz musician