Aging housing stock by neighborhood

Where is Columbus’s oldest housing — and the pre-1978 lead-paint risk that comes with it? Search your address to see how your area compares, or click any neighborhood on the map. Switch between the median age of homes and the share built before 1978.

Full ranking — all 36 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	median age of homes (years)
1	German Village	126
2	Near East	121
3	Victorian Village	121
4	Franklinton	116
5	University District	116
6	Brewery District	106
7	Milo-Grogan	103
8	Livingston Avenue Area	101
9	South Side	101
10	Wolfe Park	101
11	Italian Village	97
12	Clintonville	86
13	South Linden	79
14	East Columbus	78
15	Fifth by Northwest	76
16	North Linden	75
17	Greater Hilltop	72
18	North Central	69
19	Mid East	67
20	Olentangy West	67
21	Far South	60
22	Northland	55
23	Northeast	51
24	Southwest	47
25	Northwest	43
26	Far Northwest	41
27	West Scioto	38
28	Far North	37
29	Westland	34
30	Far West	29
31	Far East	28
32	South East	27
33	Downtown	24
34	Harrison West	24
35	Rocky Fork-Blacklick	22
36	Hayden Run	21
—	Airport	insufficient data
—	Dublin Road Corridor	insufficient data
—	Fort Hayes	insufficient data
—	Harmon Road Corridor	insufficient data
—	State of Ohio	insufficient data

How to read this map

Median age is the middle age of a neighborhood’s homes, computed from the Franklin County Auditor’s year-built field. Older neighborhoods read hotter. We show an age rather than a build year so the color runs the intuitive way — hotter means older — and the drawer carries the underlying median year built and the number of homes behind it.

Pre-1978 share is the share of homes built before 1978, the year lead-based paint was banned for residential use. It’s the sharper public-health read: older stock is far more likely to carry lead paint and to need remediation before children live in it. Both views count assessed residential parcels that carry a build year; the drawer shows what share of a neighborhood’s homes that covers.

Source: Franklin County Auditor parcel data (city open data), refreshed on the parcel ingest. Only Columbus neighborhoods are shown; the Auditor file is county-wide, so most suburbs fall outside the canvas. 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 homes carrying a build year show as “insufficient data” rather than a noisy value.