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Wickliffe's motto is "Gateway to Lake County."

The city was named after Charles A. Wickliffe, who served as the 11th Postmaster General of the United States, and a post office has operated in Wickliffe since 1843.

Wickliffe had a population of 12,652 at the 2020 census, living in about 5,523 households.

The city covers about 4.66 square miles in Lake County and is a suburb of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area.

Wickliffe's population peaked at 14,558 in 1990, and its median age of about 43.5 years makes it an older community than most Cleveland suburbs.

Wickliffe is the world headquarters of the Lubrizol Corporation, a global specialty chemicals company founded in Cleveland in 1928 that moved to Wickliffe in 1931.

Lubrizol has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 2011, when Warren Buffett's company acquired it in a deal worth about $9 billion.

Lubrizol is described as the world's largest manufacturer of petroleum additives, and its headquarters campus sits at 29400 Lakeland Boulevard in Wickliffe.

Lubrizol operates manufacturing facilities in 17 countries and employed roughly 7,500 people worldwide in the mid-2010s, all directed from its Wickliffe headquarters.