District Five
District 5 covers Columbus's Northeast Side: the Rocky Fork–Blacklick and Northeast planning areas and part of Northland, including Easton and Blendon Woods Metro Park. It borders Districts 1 and 4 to the west.
Columbus City Council District 5 is represented by Council Member Nicholas J. Bankston, first elected in 2021. Under the current system, every Columbus voter helps elect all nine district seats.
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Your representation
Nicholas J. Bankston
Committee assignments
The neighborhoods
City of Columbus planning areas in District Five, listed by number of residents. “(part)” marks an area shared with another district.
Points of interest
- Easton Town Center — An open-air shopping, dining and entertainment center, opened in 1999, with 200+ retailers and more than 18 million visitors a year.
- Blendon Woods Metro Park — A 653-acre Metro Park with stream-cut ravines and the 118-acre Walden Waterfowl Refuge around 11-acre Thoreau Lake.
- Innis Park — A 99.108-acre Northeast community park and Alum Creek Trail trailhead, next to Champions Golf Course.
- Champions Golf Course — A 208.473-acre, 18-hole Columbus Recreation and Parks golf course on Westerville Road in the Northeast community.
- Howard Community Center & Northeast Park — A Recreation and Parks community center with a gymnasium, gymnastics room, ceramics studio and weight room, in the 3.798-acre Northeast Park.
- Warner Woods Park — A 39.52-acre Rocky Fork-Blacklick community park, acquired in 2013, with mature woodlands, meadows, wetlands and a rental pavilion.
Area commissions
The most local level of civic input — they review zoning cases and advise Council. Meetings are open to the public.
About 71% of District 5's residents live outside any area commission.
Who lives here
Compared to Columbus
Where District Five ranks among all nine districts. The dot is District Five; the line marks Columbus as a whole (the Census Bureau’s citywide figure).
Race & ethnicity
Households
Household counts are ACS 5-year estimates aggregated from the district's block groups. The tick marks the citywide family-household share.
About these figures. District totals are aggregated from census block groups. Median income, rent, and home value are pooled medians interpolated from block-group distribution tables. The Columbus marks for those medians, unemployment, and race and household shares are the Census Bureau’s published figures for the whole city. All are ACS 5-year survey estimates, so treat small gaps as within the margin of error. See full methodology →
This page describes the whole district. Want the same picture for your own block? You can look up your parcel on CivicWorth — it resolves representation, zoning, transit, and recent 311 activity down to the individual address.
Public safety
How District Five’s modeled crime risk compares to Columbus as a whole, by category. These are Applied Geographic Solutions CrimeRisk indexes, which estimate the relative risk of each type of crime; they are not counts of crimes reported in the district. Bars to the left are below the Columbus index; bars to the right are above.
Source: Applied Geographic Solutions CrimeRisk indexes, via Esri. Pulled April 2, 2026; the export doesn't state the AGS reference year. Each figure is the district’s index as a percentage difference from the index for Columbus as a whole.
Get involved in District Five
Attend an area commission
Area commissions meet monthly and take public comment on zoning and development in your neighborhood.
Find meeting times →Contact Council Member Nicholas J. Bankston
For questions, concerns, or constituent help, call the Council Welcome Center or find the District 5 office's contact details on the member's official page.
Vote on the 2026 measures
This November, Columbus voters decide Issues 8 and 9, two charter amendments on how council is elected. Understand what's on your ballot.
Read the ballot explainer →More Columbus City Council districts
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Last reviewed: October 21, 2026