Absentee ownership, neighborhood by neighborhood
Where don’t owners live at the property they own? Search your address to see how your area compares, or click any neighborhood to see its biggest absentee owners.
Full ranking — all 40 neighborhoods
| Rank | Neighborhood | share of parcels not owner-occupied |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Airport | 100% |
| 2 | Dublin Road Corridor | 100% |
| 3 | State of Ohio | 100% |
| 4 | Harmon Road Corridor | 94% |
| 5 | Milo-Grogan | 81% |
| 6 | University District | 77% |
| 7 | Franklinton | 76% |
| 8 | Downtown | 76% |
| 9 | East Columbus | 75% |
| 10 | Fifth by Northwest | 75% |
| 11 | South Linden | 65% |
| 12 | Northeast | 63% |
| 13 | Olentangy West | 63% |
| 14 | Near East | 62% |
| 15 | Harrison West | 61% |
| 16 | Brewery District | 61% |
| 17 | North Central | 60% |
| 18 | Far North | 58% |
| 19 | Livingston Avenue Area | 58% |
| 20 | Hayden Run | 57% |
| 21 | South Side | 54% |
| 22 | Northwest | 53% |
| 23 | Italian Village | 51% |
| 24 | Victorian Village | 51% |
| 25 | Far West | 49% |
| 26 | West Scioto | 47% |
| 27 | Mid East | 47% |
| 28 | Rocky Fork-Blacklick | 46% |
| 29 | South East | 45% |
| 30 | Greater Hilltop | 45% |
| 31 | North Linden | 44% |
| 32 | Southwest | 43% |
| 33 | Far South | 41% |
| 34 | German Village | 41% |
| 35 | Far East | 40% |
| 36 | Northland | 38% |
| 37 | Far Northwest | 36% |
| 38 | Westland | 36% |
| 39 | Wolfe Park | 26% |
| 40 | Clintonville | 26% |
| — | Fort Hayes | insufficient data |
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. Since mid-2026 the Auditor’s file leaves owner-occupied parcels blank instead of marking them “yes”, so a blank on a parcel with a property class counts as owner-occupied.
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 of Columbus’s Columbus Communities planning areas (CC0, as of July 23, 2026). The City notes they aren’t a substitute for area commission boundaries. They include some land outside the city limits: township pockets and two small villages, Minerva Park and Valleyview. See methodology for boundary and suppression details. Neighborhoods with too few parcels show as “insufficient data” rather than a noisy number.