Subsidized & affordable housing

Where is subsidized and income-restricted housing across Columbus? Search your address to see your area, or click any neighborhood on the map. Switch between HUD Housing Choice Vouchers and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units — both shown per 1,000 parcels so a large neighborhood doesn’t win on size alone.

Full ranking — all 41 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	Voucher households per 1,000 parcels
1	Fort Hayes	1,504
2	State of Ohio	997
3	Wolfe Park	285
4	Near East	131
5	Franklinton	126
6	Milo-Grogan	119
7	South Linden	110
8	Harmon Road Corridor	102
9	Mid East	91.0
10	Livingston Avenue Area	81.3
11	East Columbus	77.7
12	Downtown	69.7
13	North Central	62.6
14	South Side	61.2
15	Greater Hilltop	52.9
16	Northeast	51.0
17	South East	48.2
18	Far South	48.1
19	North Linden	44.0
20	Southwest	43.8
21	Airport	37.1
22	Northland	34.8
23	Dublin Road Corridor	33.8
24	Fifth by Northwest	28.2
25	Westland	22.8
26	Italian Village	21.2
27	Far East	20.2
28	Harrison West	18.9
29	University District	17.9
30	West Scioto	13.4
31	Far West	10.1
32	Rocky Fork-Blacklick	7.9
33	Northwest	7.0
34	Brewery District	6.5
35	Victorian Village	4.6
36	Clintonville	4.5
37	German Village	2.5
38	Olentangy West	1.3
39	Hayden Run	1.3
40	Far Northwest	1.1
41	Far North	0.1

How to read this map

Vouchers counts households using a HUD Housing Choice Voucher (formerly Section 8) — the largest federal rental-assistance program. HUD reports these per census tract, so we area-weight them onto each neighborhood (a neighborhood spanning several tracts blends their counts by how much land each contributes). LIHTC units counts the affordable rental homes built with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits since 1987, summed from the individual project locations that fall inside each neighborhood.

The ramp is neutral on purpose: concentration of subsidized housing is context, not a good or a bad — read it alongside rental concentration and displacement pressure.

HUD suppresses voucher counts for tracts with only a handful of households, so a neighborhood whose tracts are all suppressed shows “insufficient data” rather than a fabricated zero. Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households (Housing Choice Vouchers by tract) and the HUD LIHTC database, intersected with Census TIGER/Line tract boundaries. See methodology for details.