District Three
District 3 runs from the Ohio State campus and the University District north through Clintonville, and west across the Olentangy River to Olentangy West and the part of the Northwest area south of Bethel Road. King Avenue forms much of its southern edge with District 7.
Columbus City Council District 3 is represented by Council Member Rob Dorans, appointed to council and first elected in 2019. Under the current system, every Columbus voter helps elect all nine district seats.
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Your representation
Rob Dorans
Committee assignments
The neighborhoods
City of Columbus planning areas in District Three, listed by number of residents. “(part)” marks an area shared with another district.
Points of interest
- The Ohio State University (Columbus campus) — Main campus of Ohio State, a land-grant university that also operates five regional campuses and research facilities around Ohio.
- Wexner Center for the Arts — Contemporary arts center on the Ohio State campus just west of High Street and 15th Avenue; gallery admission is free during regular hours.
- Newport Music Hall — Built in 1923 as a movie theater; operator PromoWest bills the 1,700-capacity hall as the country's longest continually running rock club.
- Whetstone Park and Columbus Park of Roses — 13-acre rose garden in 149-acre Whetstone Park, with more than 350 rose varieties and five gardens, in existence since 1953.
- Whetstone Branch, Columbus Metropolitan Library — Columbus Metropolitan Library branch on North High Street, next to Whetstone Park and the Whetstone Community Center.
- Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse — Family-owned Clintonville movie theater with two screens, a full bar with 40 draft beers and an in-house pizza kitchen.
Area commissions
The most local level of civic input — they review zoning cases and advise Council. Meetings are open to the public.
About 27% of District 3's residents live outside any area commission.
Who lives here
Compared to Columbus
Where District Three ranks among all nine districts. The dot is District Three; 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 Three’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 Three
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 Rob Dorans
For questions, concerns, or constituent help, call the Council Welcome Center or find the District 3 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