Rental concentration, neighborhood by neighborhood

What share of homes are non-owner-occupied rentals? Search your address to see how your area compares — or click any neighborhood on the map.

Full ranking — all 37 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	share of homes that are rentals
1	University District	58%
2	Olentangy West	54%
3	Fifth by Northwest	54%
4	Northeast	44%
5	Franklinton	42%
6	Far North	40%
7	South Linden	39%
8	Northwest	38%
9	Milo-Grogan	37%
10	East Columbus	37%
11	Far West	34%
12	South Side	33%
13	Livingston Avenue Area	33%
14	Victorian Village	29%
15	Italian Village	29%
16	Mid East	29%
17	Greater Hilltop	28%
18	Rocky Fork-Blacklick	28%
19	North Linden	27%
20	North Central	27%
21	Far Northwest	26%
22	Near East	26%
23	Far East	25%
24	German Village	25%
25	Southwest	23%
26	Hayden Run	22%
27	Harmon Road Corridor	22%
28	Far South	21%
29	Brewery District	21%
30	Harrison West	19%
31	Westland	19%
32	South East	16%
33	Northland	16%
34	West Scioto	14%
35	Clintonville	12%
36	Downtown	11%
37	Wolfe Park	2%
—	Airport	insufficient data
—	Dublin Road Corridor	insufficient data
—	Fort Hayes	insufficient data
—	State of Ohio	insufficient data

How this map works

This is the share of a neighborhood’s assessed residential parcels that the Franklin County Auditor flags as rentals. The denominator is residential parcels only (Auditor class 5xx), so commercial and vacant land don’t dilute it; the drawer shows what share of the neighborhood’s parcels that covers.

It’s a concentration measure, not a judgment — high rental share is simply where non-owner-occupied housing clusters, which is often where code-enforcement pressure and absentee ownership also show up. We use the Auditor’s own RENTAL flag rather than the homestead-exemption field, which in Ohio is age- and disability-gated and so isn’t a reliable owner-occupancy signal.

Source: Franklin County Auditor parcel data (city open data), refreshed on the parcel ingest. 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 residential parcels show as “insufficient data” rather than a noisy number.