District Six
District 6 covers Columbus's West Side: the Greater Hilltop and Westland planning areas and a small part of the Southwest area. I-70 forms much of its northern border, and the district reaches west beyond I-270 into the Westland area, where much of the surrounding land is outside city limits.
Columbus City Council District 6 is represented by Council Member Melissa Green, first elected in 2023. Under the current system, every Columbus voter helps elect all nine district seats.
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Your representation
Melissa Green
Committee assignments
The neighborhoods
City of Columbus planning areas in District Six, listed by number of residents. “(part)” marks an area shared with another district.
Points of interest
- Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery — Federal cemetery on the site of a Civil War prison camp, holding the remains of more than 2,000 Confederate soldiers; listed on the National Register in 1973.
- Hilltop Branch, Columbus Metropolitan Library — Columbus Metropolitan Library branch on South Hague Avenue in the Hilltop, one of the library's 23 locations.
- Westgate Park & Westgate Community Center — A 43.11-acre Greater Hilltop community park with the Westgate Community Center, a pond stocked for fishing and a 1.2-mile paved path.
- Glenwood Park & Glenwood Community Center — A 16.72-acre Greater Hilltop park, made a city park in 1912 after neighbors protested a planned open-air school; home to Glenwood Community Center and pool.
- Big Run Park — A 272.85-acre wooded regional park, acquired in 1961, home to Derby Hill, a soap box derby track that opened in 1967.
- Mentel Memorial Golf Course — A 146.058-acre, 18-hole Columbus Recreation and Parks golf course in the Westland community, acquired in 1967.
Area commissions
The most local level of civic input — they review zoning cases and advise Council. Meetings are open to the public.
Who lives here
Compared to Columbus
Where District Six ranks among all nine districts. The dot is District Six; 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 Six’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 Six
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 Melissa Green
For questions, concerns, or constituent help, call the Council Welcome Center or find the District 6 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