Code enforcement & blight, neighborhood by neighborhood
Where do weeds, trash, dumping, vacant structures and habitability complaints stack up? Search your address to see how your area compares — or click any neighborhood on the map.
Full ranking — all 35 neighborhoods
| Rank | Neighborhood | code cases per 1,000 parcels |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklinton | 126 |
| 2 | University District | 71.4 |
| 3 | South Side | 66.6 |
| 4 | Livingston Avenue Area | 63.3 |
| 5 | Milo-Grogan | 62.4 |
| 6 | Near East | 61.9 |
| 7 | Greater Hilltop | 51.5 |
| 8 | Italian Village | 49.8 |
| 9 | North Linden | 49.3 |
| 10 | South Linden | 49.2 |
| 11 | Victorian Village | 44.5 |
| 12 | Brewery District | 41.9 |
| 13 | North Central | 35.7 |
| 14 | East Columbus | 34.1 |
| 15 | Far South | 33.9 |
| 16 | Northland | 33.2 |
| 17 | Mid East | 31.2 |
| 18 | Fifth by Northwest | 29.1 |
| 19 | Northeast | 22.0 |
| 20 | Southwest | 20.8 |
| 21 | Harrison West | 20.7 |
| 22 | South East | 19.1 |
| 23 | German Village | 17.9 |
| 24 | Downtown | 17.5 |
| 25 | Far East | 16.7 |
| 26 | Clintonville | 15.9 |
| 27 | Westland | 14.6 |
| 28 | West Scioto | 14.5 |
| 29 | Far Northwest | 14.1 |
| 30 | Far West | 11.6 |
| 31 | Northwest | 11.4 |
| 32 | Rocky Fork-Blacklick | 11.2 |
| 33 | Far North | 10.4 |
| 34 | Olentangy West | 9.2 |
| 35 | Hayden Run | 7.6 |
| — | Airport | insufficient data |
| — | Dublin Road Corridor | insufficient data |
| — | Fort Hayes | insufficient data |
| — | Harmon Road Corridor | insufficient data |
| — | State of Ohio | insufficient data |
| — | Wolfe Park | insufficient data |
How these measures work
This map counts code-enforcement complaints filed through the City’s 311 system: service requests whose type is code enforcement (weeds and high grass, trash and debris, illegal dumping, vacant and distressed structures, exterior maintenance, rental-inspection complaints, work without a permit, and habitability issues such as no heat or water). It doesn’t count the City’s code-enforcement cases (the inspections and orders Building and Zoning Services opens), which the City publishes separately and this map doesn’t use yet. It uses the same definition as the property-watch alerts elsewhere on the site.
Cases per 1,000 parcels is the default because a raw count just re-draws a map of neighborhood size — the normalized rate is what lets a small neighborhood’s pressure show. The drawer breaks each neighborhood’s cases into categories. Share of all 311 asks a different question: of everything a neighborhood reports to the city, how much is blight? An area can log few cases in absolute terms yet have code enforcement dominate its civic activity.
These are complaints and cases routed through 311, not adjudicated violations. Source: Columbus 311 service requests (city open data), refreshed nightly; trailing 90-day window. 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 cases show as “insufficient data” rather than a noisy number.