Westfield Center, OH

Westfield Center is a Medina County village with 1,184 residents in the 2020 census, settled in 1826 and built around a name that has changed twice. The post office once called it Le Roy; the community was incorporated as Le Roy in 1914 and returned to Westfield Center in the 1970s. That naming wrinkle is useful local orientation, because the village’s present identity is tied to Westfield Township and the surrounding rural road network rather than a separate big-city grid. Westfield Insurance is the local heavyweight: its home office is in the village, and the company is Medina County’s largest employer.

That gives a place this size a direct connection to a regional professional workplace. Village Hall, water and sewer services, and police dispatch through the Medina County Sheriff keep the municipal layer compact, while larger shopping and employment options sit out on the county roads. Westfield Center is a small village with a large employer at its center and a name carrying its own past.