District Seven
District 7 is Columbus's central district: Downtown, Franklinton, the Near East Side, Milo-Grogan, Victorian Village, Italian Village, Harrison West, German Village and the Brewery District, plus parts of the South Side, Southwest and Fifth by Northwest areas. King Avenue forms part of its northern edge, and the Scioto River runs through it and along part of its border with District 8.
Columbus City Council District 7 is represented by Council Member Tiara N. Ross, first elected in 2025. Under the current system, every Columbus voter helps elect all nine district seats.
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Your representation
Tiara N. Ross
Committee assignments
The neighborhoods
City of Columbus planning areas in District Seven, listed by number of residents. “(part)” marks an area shared with another district.
Points of interest
- COSI — Science center opened in 1964; since 1999 it has occupied a 320,000-square-foot Arata Isozaki building with 300-plus interactive experiences and a planetarium.
- Scioto Mile — Downtown riverfront with 175 acres of parkland, multiple fountains and trails on both sides of the Scioto River, plus festivals year-round.
- Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens — Botanical gardens on 13 acres inside Franklin Park, built around the 1895 Palm House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Goodale Park — 32.56-acre Victorian Village park on land Dr. Lincoln Goodale donated in 1851, one of the first parks of its kind in the country.
- The Book Loft of German Village — Independent bookstore with 32 rooms of books inside pre-Civil War-era buildings that once housed general stores, a saloon and a nickelodeon.
- Scioto Audubon Metro Park — 119-acre riverfront park on a former brownfield south of Downtown, with a 35-foot climbing wall, dog park and bird habitat.
Area commissions
The most local level of civic input — they review zoning cases and advise Council. Meetings are open to the public.
About 30% of District 7's residents live outside any area commission, including Downtown, German Village, Victorian Village and Italian Village, which have the City's design or historic review commissions instead.
Who lives here
Compared to Columbus
Where District Seven ranks among all nine districts. The dot is District Seven; 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 Seven’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 Seven
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 Tiara N. Ross
For questions, concerns, or constituent help, call the Council Welcome Center or find the District 7 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