In 2008, Forbes Magazine ranked Geauga County as the fourth best place in the United States to raise a family.

[6] About 20% of the counties area (Geauga, Trumbull, Ashtabula and Portage) population is Amish, as of 2017[update].

After the discovery of the New World, the land that became Geauga County was originally part of the French colony of Canada (New France), which was ceded in 1763 to Great Britain and renamed Province of Quebec.

[8] Residents in the northern townships wanted the seat in Champion, renamed Painesville, Ohio in 1832.

The first settlement in Geauga was at Burton, Ohio in the year 1798, when three families settled there from Connecticut.

[14][15] The point source of the west branch of the Cuyahoga River is near the intersection of Pond and Rapids Roads in Burton Township.

[16][17] The point sources of the east branch of the Chagrin River are at Bass Lake in Munson Township and the southwest corner of the city of Chardon.

[23] There is another Silver Creek in Geauga County in Russell Township, which is a tributary to the east branch of the Chagrin River.

As of the census[31] of 2000, 0.59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, 26.8% were of German, 15.3% Irish, 14.3% English, 10.8% Italian 7.5% Polish and 5.2% American ancestry.

According to Census 2000, 89.4% spoke English, 5.1% German, 1.5% Pennsylvania Dutch and 1.0% Spanish as their first language.

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 93,389 people, 34,264 households, and 25,654 families residing in the county.

[32] In terms of ancestry, 27.4% were German, 17.1% were Irish, 13.8% were Italian, 13.8% were English, 8.3% were Polish, 5.5% were Hungarian, and 3.6% were American.

[7] In 2017 the Amish accounted for 19.8% of Geauga, Trumbull, Ashtabula and Portage counties area population.

Religion in Geauga County, according to ARDA (2020) [36][failed verification] -Black Protestant Churches Geauga County is a Republican stronghold, having voted Democratic for president only once since 1856, in Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide, but Franklin D. Roosevelt came within just 220 votes in 1936.

The Geauga County Educational Service Center provides collaborative programs and services for the seven local school districts in Geauga County, leveraging resources to reduce overall costs to each district.

The ESC has formed a P-16 bridge initiative whose mission is to create workforce readiness in our youth and adults through substantive partnerships between educators, businesses, community organizations, parents focusing on important transitions experienced at each level.

Geauga County P-16 will develop a sustainable process and program to insure its continued success.

[53] In addition, there are five neighboring public school districts that serve portions of Geauga County residents.

The career center offers a variety of programs in health, education, and hands-on technology.