Development pulse: building permits by neighborhood
Where is construction money flowing? Search your address to see how your area compares — or click any neighborhood on the map. Switch scope and year, or see where permitting accelerated the most.
How to read this map
Permits per 1,000 parcels is the default so the map isn’t just a picture of neighborhood size — a small neighborhood with lots of building activity should stand out. Use the raw-count toggle if you want absolute volume. New construction is the “New structure” permit types; Commercial is the commercial-occupancy permits.
The city records only the year a permit was issued, not the day — so this map works year by year. 2026 is year-to-date (marked YTD), so it will read lower than a full year; that’s why the default view is 2025, the latest complete year. The Growth ’24→’25 view compares two complete years — where permitting sped up (positive) or cooled (negative) — a truer read of momentum than any single year, and not distorted by the partial 2026.
Source: City of Columbus building permits (city open data), refreshed nightly. Neighborhood boundaries are the city’s area commissions, grown to cover the whole city — see methodology for boundary and suppression details. Neighborhoods with too few permits show as “insufficient data” rather than a noisy number.