Transit access by neighborhood
How many homes can actually reach frequent bus service — and where can’t they? Search your address to see your neighborhood, or click any area on the map. Switch between the share of homes near frequent transit and how much of each area’s stop network is high-frequency. Looking at individual stops instead? See the COTA frequency map.
Full ranking — all 36 neighborhoods
| Rank | Neighborhood | share of homes near frequent transit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian Village | 100% |
| 2 | Victorian Village | 100% |
| 3 | Brewery District | 100% |
| 4 | Franklinton | 98% |
| 5 | Downtown | 93% |
| 6 | Near East | 92% |
| 7 | South Linden | 87% |
| 8 | Livingston Avenue Area | 77% |
| 9 | University District | 73% |
| 10 | German Village | 65% |
| 11 | North Linden | 49% |
| 12 | Mid East | 47% |
| 13 | South Side | 45% |
| 14 | Olentangy West | 41% |
| 15 | Clintonville | 37% |
| 16 | Greater Hilltop | 36% |
| 17 | Milo-Grogan | 33% |
| 18 | Fifth by Northwest | 26% |
| 19 | Harrison West | 24% |
| 20 | Northland | 23% |
| 21 | Northeast | 22% |
| 22 | Northwest | 22% |
| 23 | North Central | 11% |
| 24 | Far South | 8% |
| 25 | Westland | 8% |
| 26 | East Columbus | 6% |
| 27 | Far East | 5% |
| 28 | Far Northwest | 3% |
| 29 | Rocky Fork-Blacklick | 3% |
| 30 | South East | 1% |
| 31 | Far North | 0% |
| 32 | Far West | 0% |
| 33 | Harmon Road Corridor | 0% |
| 34 | Hayden Run | 0% |
| 35 | Southwest | 0% |
| 36 | West Scioto | 0% |
| — | Airport | insufficient data |
| — | Dublin Road Corridor | insufficient data |
| — | Fort Hayes | insufficient data |
| — | State of Ohio | insufficient data |
| — | Wolfe Park | insufficient data |
How to read this map
Homes near frequent transit is the share of a neighborhood’s homes within about a 400-metre (¼-mile) walk of a COTA stop that runs at least every 15 minutes at peak. It’s a resident-centric measure — it counts how many people can reach reliable transit, which is the question that actually matters, rather than how many stops happen to be frequent. Greener areas have better access.
Frequent-stop share flips to the supply side: of the stops inside a neighborhood, how many run every 15 minutes or better. It’s a useful complement, but in an area with only a handful of stops the share gets noisy, so neighborhoods below a minimum stop count show as “insufficient data.” Distance here is straight-line to the nearest stop, so it can slightly overstate access where a river, rail line, or highway blocks the walk.
Source: COTA GTFS schedule data and a precomputed parcel-to-nearest-stop accessibility table, refreshed on the transit ingest. Only Columbus neighborhoods are shown.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.