Displacement & gentrification pressure
Where are the signals of rapid change stacking up? This map places every Columbus neighborhood on a value × rate-of-change quadrant — the affordable areas heating up fastest are the ones under early displacement pressure. Search your address or click any neighborhood to see the signals behind its class.
Full ranking — all 35 neighborhoods
| Rank | Neighborhood | Displacement typology |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brewery District | Already changed |
| 2 | Clintonville | Already changed |
| 3 | Downtown | Already changed |
| 4 | Far East | Already changed |
| 5 | Far North | Already changed |
| 6 | Fifth by Northwest | Already changed |
| 7 | Harrison West | Already changed |
| 8 | Italian Village | Already changed |
| 9 | Rocky Fork-Blacklick | Already changed |
| 10 | Victorian Village | Already changed |
| 11 | Far Northwest | Active change |
| 12 | Far West | Active change |
| 13 | German Village | Active change |
| 14 | Hayden Run | Active change |
| 15 | Near East | Active change |
| 16 | Northwest | Active change |
| 17 | Olentangy West | Active change |
| 18 | Southwest | Active change |
| 19 | University District | Active change |
| 20 | West Scioto | Active change |
| 21 | Westland | Active change |
| 22 | East Columbus | Early pressure |
| 23 | Far South | Early pressure |
| 24 | Mid East | Early pressure |
| 25 | North Central | Early pressure |
| 26 | South East | Early pressure |
| 27 | Franklinton | Stable |
| 28 | Greater Hilltop | Stable |
| 29 | Livingston Avenue Area | Stable |
| 30 | Milo-Grogan | Stable |
| 31 | North Linden | Stable |
| 32 | Northeast | Stable |
| 33 | Northland | Stable |
| 34 | South Linden | Stable |
| 35 | South Side | Stable |
| — | 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 to read this map
Composite indexes that just add up high prices and high permits tend to relabel the neighborhoods that already gentrified. So this map measures change, not level. It crosses two axes:
- Value — is the neighborhood’s median residential sale price (2023–2025) above or below the citywide median?
- Rate of change — are at least two of three market signals climbing faster than the citywide trend: the change in sale price vs the 2020–2022 cohort, the change in building-permit rate (2024→2025), and the change in home turnover?
That yields four classes. Early pressure — affordable areas accelerating on multiple signals — is the displacement-risk story. Active change is pricier and still moving; Already changed is pricey but cooling; and Stable is affordable and quiet on these signals. The classes are relative to Columbus today, not an absolute risk score.
Every input is a live Civic Worth metric — nothing is a black box. The drawer lists each signal’s value against its citywide benchmark. The underlying maps are sale price (with its change and turnover metrics) and building permits (with its growth metric). A neighborhood is shown only when it has enough arm’s-length sales in both cohorts to trust the change signals.
Sources: Franklin County Auditor arm’s-length residential sales and City of Columbus building permits — the same public data behind Civic Worth’s housing-market and development-pulse maps. See methodology for details.