Columbus, Ohio.
Typical home $243,122 (-1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,471 (+2.7%). Columbus, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Columbus
Columbus’ own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Columbus is in Franklin County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 16 school districts: Canal Winchester Local, Columbus City Schools District, Dublin City, Gahanna-Jefferson City, Groveport Madison Local, Hamilton Local, Hilliard City, Licking Heights Local, New Albany-Plain Local, Olentangy Local, Pickerington Local, Reynoldsburg City, South-Western City, Upper Arlington City, Westerville City and Worthington City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$689 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,628 -1%
- $245,750$243,122 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,035 +22%
- $200,087$243,122 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Columbus$1,276
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Columbus, OH fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Columbus, OH rose 2.7% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Columbus runs $364/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $498 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,835 a month against $1,471 rent: a $1,276 mortgage payment, plus $298 property tax and $260 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Columbus
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,835
- Renting$1,471
- Mortgage only$1,276
Property tax · $298/mo 1.47% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Franklin County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $260/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
Columbus is a city of 905,748 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $66,082 a year and half less, against $75,176 across Franklin County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Columbus was 3.5% in August 2026, and Franklin County had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Columbus is Ohio's capital and a large city, and its residents are younger than in most of the country. Most households rent rather than own, and incomes run below the county's, with a good number of people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Columbus are Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Columbus City Schools District. Unemployment is lower than a year ago, and Franklin County has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Ohio Stadium, the home of Ohio State football, and the Columbus Museum of Art are both in or beside town, as is the Wexner Center for the Arts. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a longer drive away.
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- 390,528households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 791,805 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus Wcmh weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Columbus
- The Ohio State University36,433
- Ohio Health24,662
- State of Ohio24,217
- JP Morgan Chase & Co18,600
- Nationwide Children's Hospital14,037
- Kroger Co.14,006
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company11,000
- Amazon9,262
From the City of Columbus’ annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “of FTEs and Rank: "Largest Central Ohio Employers Ranked by Central Ohio employees", Business First of Columbus”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of ColumbusRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Columbus’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Franklin County and the Columbus, OH metro.
Columbus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Columbus$243,122
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Columbus listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Columbus35.01%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Columbus15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Columbus2,515
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Columbus878
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Columbus$237,391
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Columbus99.39%
Zip codes with a Columbus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Columbus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Columbus
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43228 | Columbus | 59,077 | $1,277 | $218,961 |
| 43229 | Columbus | 55,020 | $1,233 | $269,004 |
| 43232 | Columbus | 47,364 | $1,295 | $215,926 |
| 43207 | Columbus | 47,272 | $1,274 | $200,550 |
| 43235 | Columbus | 44,589 | $1,421 | $340,582 |
| 43224 | Columbus | 44,319 | $1,149 | $196,619 |
| 43204 | Columbus | 42,962 | $1,390 | $196,238 |
| 43201 | Columbus | 34,322 | $2,087 | $359,934 |
| 43219 | Columbus | 32,338 | $1,335 | $187,789 |
| 43223 | Columbus | 28,187 | $1,255 | $166,695 |
| 43214 | Columbus | 26,776 | $1,545 | $398,978 |
| 43227 | Columbus | 25,358 | $1,510 | $192,155 |
| 43212 | Columbus | 23,405 | $1,544 | $432,508 |
| 43211 | Columbus | 22,313 | $1,258 | $137,577 |
| 43206 | Columbus | 21,996 | $1,685 | $274,039 |
| 43202 | Columbus | 20,854 | $1,732 | $317,244 |
| 43215 | Columbus | 17,836 | $1,549 | $331,298 |
| 43205 | Columbus | 12,618 | $1,369 | $268,486 |
| 43203 | Columbus | 8,618 | $1,271 | $232,258 |
| 43240 | Columbus | 7,679 | $1,592 | $324,992 |
| 43222 | Columbus | 4,819 | $1,280 | $167,395 |