Environmental justice burden

Where do environmental burdens and vulnerability stack up? This map shows EPA EJScreen indicators for each Columbus neighborhood — the EJ demographic index plus air quality, traffic, lead, and proximity to hazardous sites. Search your address or click any neighborhood, and switch indicators with the tabs.

Full ranking — all 41 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	EPA EJScreen national percentile (0–100)
1	Fort Hayes	98
2	South Linden	93
3	East Columbus	89
4	North Central	88
5	State of Ohio	87
6	Livingston Avenue Area	86
7	Milo-Grogan	86
8	Wolfe Park	85
9	Franklinton	81
10	Near East	76
11	Mid East	76
12	Northeast	76
13	South Side	75
14	Harmon Road Corridor	75
15	University District	72
16	Northland	68
17	North Linden	67
18	Far East	65
19	Greater Hilltop	64
20	Olentangy West	62
21	South East	62
22	Far South	61
23	Downtown	50
24	Westland	49
25	Northwest	45
26	Southwest	44
27	Far North	43
28	Far West	42
29	Fifth by Northwest	40
30	West Scioto	38
31	Hayden Run	35
32	Harrison West	32
33	Rocky Fork-Blacklick	30
34	Brewery District	30
35	Italian Village	27
36	Victorian Village	25
37	Far Northwest	24
38	Clintonville	18
39	Dublin Road Corridor	13
40	German Village	10
41	Airport	3

How to read this map

EPA EJScreen scores every census block group on environmental and demographic indicators. Each value here is a national percentile (0–100): a score of 90 means the area faces a heavier burden than 90% of the country. We show each neighborhood as the area-weighted average of the block groups it covers, so a warmer color means a higher burden. The drawer reports how many block groups were averaged.

The EJ demographic index combines low-income and people-of-color shares — EPA’s measure of who is most affected. The environmental tabs (PM2.5, ozone, diesel, lead, traffic, and proximity to Superfund, chemical-accident, hazardous-waste, wastewater, and underground-storage sites) are the burdens themselves.

Source: EPA EJScreen block-group indicators, intersected with Census TIGER/Line block-group boundaries. Air-toxics cancer and respiratory indices are omitted where EPA suppresses their national percentile. See methodology for details.