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.
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. Boundaries are the city’s area commissions, grown to cover the whole city — see methodology for boundary and suppression details.