Columbus City Council district demographics & trends
Columbus Districts tracks each district across American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year vintages, so you can see change over time — not just a single snapshot. Three vintages are loaded today. A new one is added after each Census Bureau release, which usually comes in December (the 2020–2024 estimates came out Jan. 29, 2026). Change is measured from the ACS 2017–2021 baseline, because neighboring 5-year windows share most of their years.
Median household income
Median home value
Population, rent & unemployment
Current value with change since the ACS 2017–2021 baseline. Scroll sideways for all nine districts.
| Metric (ACS 2020–2024, change since ACS 2017–2021) | D1 | D2 | D3 | D4 | D5 | D6 | D7 | D8 | D9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 101,481 +2% | 101,715 +5% | 96,002 +0% | 101,627 −1% | 103,783 +1% | 98,764 +0% | 100,646 +4% | 102,147 +1% | 103,950 +3% |
| Median rent | $1,437 +21% | $1,456 +20% | $1,219 +16% | $1,124 +24% | $1,400 +23% | $1,207 +25% | $1,344 +25% | $1,134 +23% | $1,239 +20% |
| Unemployment | 4.1% −0.4 | 4.0% +1.2 | 5.3% +0.1 | 8.4% −1.0 | 4.1% +0.1 | 6.2% 0.0 | 4.2% −0.8 | 7.2% −0.2 | 3.4% −1.2 |
How to read these figures
About the ACS 5-year estimates
The American Community Survey 5-year estimate is a rolling average over five years of surveys, not a single-year count. It's the most reliable Census source for areas the size of a council district, but because it's an average, it lags fast-moving change by a couple of years.
Why district figures are aggregated
Council districts don't line up with Census geographies, so every district figure here is built up from census block groups assigned to that district. Median income, rent, and home value are pooled medians: each block group’s ACS income, home-value, and rent distribution tables are apportioned to the district, and the median is interpolated from the combined distribution. Pooling all nine districts this way reproduces the Census Bureau’s published citywide Columbus medians within about 2%. Where a page compares a district with “Columbus,” the medians, unemployment rate, and race and household shares are the Bureau’s own published figures for the whole city, not an average of the districts. The “Block groups” count on each district page is the number of census block groups with at least half their 2020 population in the district. These are still survey estimates, so treat small gaps between districts as within the margin of error. Dollar figures are in each vintage’s own dollars (2021 dollars for 2017–2021, 2023 dollars for 2019–2023, and 2024 dollars for 2020–2024) and are not adjusted for inflation between vintages.
Public-safety figures
The public-safety section on each district page shows Applied Geographic Solutions CrimeRisk indexes, obtained through Esri. They are modeled estimates of the relative risk of each type of crime, not counts of reported crimes. Each figure is the district’s index as a percentage difference from the index for Columbus as a whole. They come from an Esri export pulled April 2, 2026; the export doesn’t state the AGS reference year.
Sources & corrections
Demographics: U.S. Census Bureau ACS via CivicWorth. Boundaries: official City of Columbus council map, adopted in December 2021 and first used in the 2023 elections. Found an error? Every district page has a “Suggest an edit” form, and corrections are made quickly.
These figures stop at the district level. To explore the same underlying data at the individual address and parcel level — representation, zoning, transit, and 311 — or to browse Columbus civic maps, see CivicWorth’s Columbus hub.
Last reviewed: October 21, 2026