What can be built here: zoning by neighborhood

How to read this map

Each neighborhood is shaded by the share of its zoned land in one category. Single-family only is land in Columbus’s base “Residential” districts, where nothing denser than a detached house can be built by right — the darker the fill, the more of the neighborhood is locked to that one use. Multi-family & mixed-use is land that allows apartments, the “missing middle,” and the city’s form-based neighborhood and downtown districts. Commercial & industrial is everything non-residential.

We weight by land area, not by counting districts: a single 500-acre district shouldn’t count the same as a 5-acre one when the question is how much land is reserved for what. Each zoning district is apportioned to the neighborhoods it overlaps by the area it contributes, and the three shares add up to a neighborhood’s total zoned land. The drawer shows the full breakdown for each area.

Source: Zone-In Columbus zoning districts (city open data). 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 details.