Absentee ownership, neighborhood by neighborhood

How these measures work

Not owner-occupied is the default: the share of parcels the Franklin County Auditor records as not owner-occupied. We use the Auditor’s own determination rather than comparing the owner’s mailing address to the property address — those are formatted differently often enough that a string comparison is unreliable. The Auditor flag also correctly counts the in-state LLC landlord that an out-of-state test would miss.

Out-of-state looks, among absentee parcels only, at the share whose owner mailing address is outside Ohio. We scope it to absentee parcels on purpose: many owner-occupied homes with a mortgage have their tax bill mailed to an out-of-state escrow servicer, so a raw “mailed out of state” count badly overstates out-of-state ownership. The drawer lists each neighborhood’s largest absentee owners.

Source: Franklin County Auditor parcel data (city open data), refreshed on the parcel ingest. Neighborhood boundaries are the city’s area commissions, grown to cover the whole city — see methodology for boundary and suppression details. Neighborhoods with too few parcels show as “insufficient data” rather than a noisy number.