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Civic Worth is in beta. It’s assembled automatically from public records and can be wrong. Check the official source before you rely on it, and tell us what’s wrong, or see what we’ve corrected.

15-Minute Columbus: libraries & rec centers

How far are you from a library or a recreation center? Every one is a dot — blue for libraries, orange for rec centers. Turn on the walk-sheds to see a ~15-minute straight-line circle around each, or search your address to find the nearest of each. Click any dot for its details.

How to read this map

Each dot is a public library (blue) or recreation center (orange). Toggle either kind off in the legend to isolate the other. Turn on walk-sheds to draw a ~1.2 km circle around each amenity — roughly a 15-minute walk.

Those circles are straight-line (“as the crow flies”) distance, not walking routes. They do not account for rivers, railroads, or highways — the Scioto River is not walkable, so a circle that spans it overstates who can actually reach that amenity on foot. Read them as an optimistic upper bound on access. True walk-time isochrones over the street network are the planned upgrade.

Source: City of Columbus open data (recreation centers) and Columbus Metropolitan Library location data, refreshed on the boundary ingest. See methodology for how these feeds are assembled.