[5] Wayne County comprises the Wooster, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Wayne County as it exists today was described in legislation in 1808 but was not formally organized until January 1812, with effect from March 1.

An earlier Wayne County, created by the government of the Northwest Territory in 1796, included much of northern Ohio and all of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

31.7% were of German, 13.9% American, 9.6% Irish, 9.0% English and 5.5% Swiss ancestry according to Census 2000.

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 114,520 people, 42,638 households, and 30,070 families living in the county.

[17] There were several large waves of migration into what it is today Wayne County, Ohio.

The first wave was groups of families from New England, migrating westward into what was then the Northwest Territory and then early statehood era Ohio between the 1790s and the 1820s.

They were overwhelmingly Congregationalists, however, in the 1810s several arrived who had become Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians during the Second Great Awakening.

The second large migration was German immigrants, the Germans settled in Wayne County in large numbers between the 1820s and the 1880s, forming a steady stream of migration into the county during that time.

German-Americans have formed the largest single group in Wayne County since the late 1800s.

Prior to 1912, Wayne County was a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections, only voting Republicans twice since 1856.

The Wayne County Public Library serves the communities of Wayne County, Ohio from its administrative offices in Wooster, Ohio and branches in Creston, Dalton, Doylestown, Rittman, Shreve, and West Salem.