ZIP code 43221: Upper Arlington and Columbus

Drinking-water compliance

A health-based violation is a contaminant above its limit or a treatment rule not followed; monitoring, reporting and public-notice violations are paperwork. Lead is the 90th-percentile result across sampled homes, not a reading at any one tap.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026), violations and lead and copper sampling for the system that serves most of this ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO

Byproducts and contaminants

TTHM

33.4 µg/L yearly mean in 2019, the last year in the file (limit 80); worst yearly mean 51.3, highest single sample 111; 512 samples from 2012 to 2019

HAA5

19.3 µg/L yearly mean in the last year sampled (limit 60); worst yearly mean 36.5, highest sample 65.2; 512 samples

Plants

Columbus Public Water System runs 3 plants and EPA's file lumps their entry-point samples under one system, so the nitrate, arsenic, radioactivity, solvent, farm-chemical and metal rows cover all 3, not only Dublin Road Water Plant, which serves this ZIP; a sample over a limit may be from another plant

Nitrate

highest of 232 samples was 12.5 mg/L as nitrogen (2015; limit 10), 12 samples over the limit; 3.6 in 2019, the last year sampled. Nitrate above 10 is unsafe for infants

Arsenic

not detected in 18 samples (limit 10)

Solvents and fuels

benzene, carbon tetrachloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride not detected in 18 samples

Bacteria

4 of 30,122 routine tap samples (0.01%) tested positive for total coliform in 2012 to 2019, 0 of 3,897 in 2019; E. coli never found in the 4 tap samples tested for it. Coliform itself is a warning sign; E. coli means sewage or manure reached the water

Farm chemicals

atrazine in 21 of 57 samples, highest 2.8 µg/L (limit 3); alachlor in 6 of 57 samples, highest 0.37 µg/L (limit 2); 2,4-D not detected in 2 samples

Metals

barium in 11 of 18 samples, highest 17 µg/L (limit 2,000); chromium, cadmium, mercury, selenium, thallium not detected in 18 samples

EPA's file stops at 2019; Ohio EPA's Drinking Water Watch has newer results. Byproducts are judged on running yearly averages at each sampling site, so one high sample is not a violation. Nitrate and arsenic are measured where water enters the pipes.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019 (TTHM, HAA5 and coliform from distribution-system samples of Columbus Public Water System; nitrate, arsenic, radionuclides, solvents, herbicides and metals from the entry points of the same system); non-detects counted as zero

PFAS

UCMR 5, all plants

12 samples in 2024 at the entry point to the distribution system: PFHxA 18.2, PFBA 17, PFPeA 14.2 ng/L

Sources

The system reported a known PFAS source near its supply

Ohio EPA 2020

3 plants tested (latest 2020-10): nothing detected for the six PFAS tested

Ohio EPA latest

3 plants sampled by Ohio EPA, most recently 2020-10 (Ohio EPA statewide sampling status map)

Firefighting foam: 7 fire departments or other holders in Franklin County registered 3,800 gallons of PFAS-based AFFF foam with Ohio EPA, 3,165 gallons in opened containers; the state is collecting it for disposal so it is never sprayed again.

Lithium: not detected in 10 UCMR 5 samples at Columbus Public Water System (the method reports from 9 µg/L). Lithium is unregulated; EPA's draft health reference level is 10 µg/L, and it occurs naturally in deep groundwater, so well systems in the northwest run highest.

PFAS are the forever chemicals from firefighting foam, plating shops and non-stick coatings. One sample above 4 ng/L is not a violation; compliance is judged on running annual averages, and systems are adding carbon filters ahead of the 2029 deadline. Results are for water leaving the plant, not your tap.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 and its current status map, for the system that serves most of this ZIP; EPA SDWIS record OH2504412; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS

Lead at the tap

Latest period

1.2 ppb in the sampling period ending 2023-12

Record

3 sampling periods since 2016, none above 10 ppb

Service lines

288,462 inventoried: 25,155 lead, 8,093 galvanized needing replacement, 65,266 unknown, 189,948 not lead (reported all required service line types)

Children: this ZIP is not on the Ohio Department of Health's high-risk list for childhood lead testing; children on Medicaid or in pre-1978 housing with peeling paint should still be tested.

Housing age: 44% of the homes here were built before 1960 and 9% before 1940, when lead service lines, lead solder and lead paint were common; 63% predate 1980 (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Systems sample taps in the homes most likely to have lead pipes or solder; the 90th-percentile figure means nine in ten sampled homes were at or below it. Lead comes from the service line and the house plumbing, not the source water, so a low system result does not clear an old house. The action level drops from 15 to 10 ppb in 2027, and every lead line must be replaced within ten years of that.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System lead and copper 90th-percentile results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2), for Columbus Public Water System (OH2504412), the system that serves most of this ZIP · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio

Fluoride and treatment

Treatment on file: corrosion control, coagulation and settling, chlorine disinfection, iron and manganese removal, ion-exchange softening, lime softening, ozone, powdered activated carbon, sand or media filtration, ultraviolet disinfection.

Measured fluoride: 0.97 mg/L on average at the plant's entry points in 2019 (in the range dentists aim for); samples ran from 0.82 to 1.01 mg/L across 18 samples in 2012 to 2019 (EPA compliance monitoring). Natural fluoride in Ohio well water runs from a trace to over 2 mg/L in parts of the northwest.

The health department counts 99.9% of Franklin County residents on community water as receiving fluoridated water.

Ohio law (ORC 6109.20, 1969) makes systems serving 5,000 or more people fluoridate unless the water already carries 0.8 mg/L naturally or the community exempted itself by ordinance or referendum in the months after the law passed; smaller systems choose for themselves. The treatment list is what each system registered with EPA and can lag a plant upgrade.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride, fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health; EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System treatment table for Columbus Public Water System (OH2504412); EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring, 2012 to 2019; Ohio Department of Health fluoridation report (DataOhio) for the county share · EPA SDWIS search

Algal toxins

Raw water

18 detections at the intake across 6 bloom seasons (2016 to 2026); highest since 2024 0.29 µg/L

Treated water

2 detections, highest 0.26 µg/L (2025-10), below the 0.3 µg/L advisory level

Monitoring

1,604 samples from 2016 to 2026, latest 2026-08-24

Raw-water readings show what the plant has to remove; any detection at the intake triggers weekly paired raw and treated-water testing until two clean weeks, and carbon, ozone or chlorine destroys the toxin in nearly every case. The ten-day advisory levels for treated water are 0.3 µg/L for children under six and 1.6 µg/L for everyone else. Since November 2022 the bloom season runs June through November (sampling continues into early December), with treated water tested every two weeks the rest of the year; the 2016 to 2022 rule monitored year-round and stepped testing up to three days a week when raw water passed 5 µg/L.

Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (HAB data and map, DrinkingWater/HAB service, fetched 2026-09-09), total microcystins by ELISA in raw and treated water, for the system that serves most of this ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems

Groundwater

Under the surface

glacial till (clay-rich, poor yields), part of the W Columbus Ground Moraine Aquifer (ground moraine setting); wells there yield < 5 gallons a minute, deposits 25 - 100 ft thick

Bedrock

Delaware and Columbus Limestones, yielding 25 - 100 gpm to a well

Setting

Limestone; water table 50-75 ft down, 2-4 in/yr recharge, clay loam soil (hydrogeologic setting 7Ac); pesticide index 114

Karst

3 karst and spring points in ODNR's inventory inside the ZIP (1 field-verified), 0.3 per square mile

Well logs

716 drilled wells on file (21.2 per 1,000 residents), median 120 ft deep, 16 gallons a minute median test yield, water 46 ft down

Aquifers

86% of wells in bedrock, 14% in sand, gravel and other unconsolidated material; typical well drilled 1972, 126 since 2000; uses: Domestic 491, Monitor 80

Geology

29% of the ZIP is a sensitive geologic setting, where thin or sandy cover leaves the aquifer open to what soaks in from the surface; its population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under more than 20 ft of drift; 2 probable sinkholes inside the ZIP, where surface water can pour straight into the aquifer; nearest verified sinkhole 1 mi away (Ohio EPA and ODNR Geological Survey)

Injection wells

34 Class V injection wells on Ohio EPA's books inside this ZIP (6 active): 2 large septic, 30 cleanup injection, 2 vehicle waste; these put fluids underground above or into drinking water aquifers

Water table

FR-10 OH monitoring well (ODNR), 2.3 mi away: water 43.5 ft below ground on 2026-08-25; averaged 42.5 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 44.3 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 1.8 ft lower; range 40.5 to 45.4 ft over 4,163 readings since 2015

Nitrate risk

EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Hayden Run-Scioto River subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 25% if it draws on groundwater and 56% if it draws on rivers or lakes, judged from land use, geology and past results (EnviroAtlas nitrate violation index; the typical Ohio subwatershed scores 23% for groundwater and 39% for surface water)

Quality monitoring

Ohio EPA's nearest ambient groundwater monitoring well is Strawser & Allen Partnership (Franklin County), 6.7 mi away: 85 ft deep in limestone or dolomite (DCL undifferentiated Salina aquifer); bedrock 26 ft down; wells there yield under 5 gallons a minute; sampled every 18 months. 9 active wells within 15 mi

Vulnerability rates how easily a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer, not whether anything has. Well logs include abandoned and replaced wells, so counts overstate wells in use; a private well owner is the only one who tests it.

Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey, Groundwater Vulnerability (DRASTIC) map (polygon at the ZIP's population-weighted center), karst feature inventory, and the Ohio water well log database (logs inside the ZIP boundary) · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data

Aquifer exposure

Karst

the population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under more than 20 ft of drift; 2 probable sinkholes inside the ZIP; nearest verified sinkhole 1 mi from the center

Wellhead protection

less than half a percent of this ZIP lies inside any public water system's five-year wellhead protection area

River intakes

68% in the 1,000-foot stream corridor zone

Vulnerability index

DRASTIC 95 (ODNR; higher means a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer more easily)

Sensitive settings are outwash plains, buried valleys, karst and shallow bedrock, mapped statewide by Ohio EPA for siting decisions. Exposure is not contamination: it says how quickly a spill, a failing tank or heavy manure would reach the water table, not whether one has.

Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings and karst geology layers (geology/Geology), ODNR Geological Survey karst and spring points, Ohio EPA source water protection areas (DrinkingWater/SWAP); shares by ZIP boundary overlay, karst by a point query at the population-weighted center · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey

Sewage treatment

Size

6 million gallons a day design flow; a major facility

Compliance

10 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; currently in significant noncompliance (Effluent - Monthly Average Limit); 33 effluent limit exceedances in 3 years

Sludge source: nearest Olentangy Environmental Control Center, 8.4 mi away (a major plant); 3 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).

State water loans: 1 project inside this ZIP has borrowed $3.4 million from Ohio EPA's revolving loan funds since 2023 (1 drinking water project for $3.4 million). Largest: Varsity Ave Area WL Imprs CIP #690236-100106 (Columbus, 2023, $3.4 million). Below-market loans are how most Ohio treatment plants and water mains get rebuilt.

Sewer planning: this ZIP falls in the Columbus City Community-level FPA; 100% of it is assigned to City of Columbus as the designated sewage management agency (with City of Upper Arlington) under Ohio's Clean Water Act section 208 plan (specific prescriptions). The 208 plan decides who may build and extend sewers.

Stormwater: all of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, mostly the City of Columbus storm sewer system (7 permit holders overlap the ZIP); the towns, townships and counties that own those storm sewers hold a stormwater permit and must control what runs off streets and parking lots (2020 to 2030 designation). 1 site with an address in this ZIP holds its own industrial stormwater permit (Allied Mineral Products LLC) (EPA Facility Finder).

Where a home's sewage actually goes depends on the sewer district, and rural homes are on septic systems the county health department permits; the nearest plant is a proxy. Violations range from paperwork to raw discharges.

Source: EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Clean Water Act NPDES facilities with a POTW component in Ohio; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Compliance data lag about a quarter.; other Clean Water Act permit holders inside the ZIP from the same service · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder

Stream health

Uses failing

aquatic life 100% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 69%, fish consumption 0%

Causes listed

bacteria (pathogens) (69%), sediment and silt (59%), altered hydrology (59%)

Cleanup plans

31% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget

Watersheds here: Hayden Run-Scioto River (not supporting); Mouth Olentangy River (not supporting).

Fish advisories (Ohio EPA): Scioto River (Ostrander Road (Warrensburg) to Greenlawn Dam (Columbus)): saugeye one meal a month, flathead catfish one meal a month (PCBs, mercury); Griggs Reservoir: common carp two meals a week (mercury). Statewide, every other fish is one meal a week because of mercury.

Nearest stream assessment (Ohio EPA): Waterman Ditch At O.S.U. Farm, Upst. Kenny Rd. on the Waterman Ditch, 2.5 mi away: non attainment of its warmwater use; fish IBI 12 of 60 (2012); bugs rated poor; habitat QHEI 46.5 of 100. 3 assessed sites inside the ZIP, 3 within 3 miles, 68 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.

Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): 6.1 miles of designated streams cross this ZIP: 6.1 mi warmwater habitat. Nearest specially protected stream: the Scioto river (Indian run (RM 145.18) to Olentangy river (RM 132.33)), 0.7 mi away, a Superior High Quality Water; 44% of the ZIP lies within a mile of such a stream, where new discharges face the strictest antidegradation review. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.

Proposed for 2026: Ohio EPA's pending water quality standards rewrite would add 4.1 miles of stream in this ZIP to the antidegradation tiers: the Scioto River as Outstanding State Water for recreation (Mill creek above O'Shaughnessy reservoir (RM 155.4) to the mouth). Listing raises the bar for any new or expanded discharge.

PFAS in the river (Ohio EPA large river survey): at Scioto R. At Columbus @ West 5th Ave., 2.5 mi away, the water carried 77.6 ng/L of total PFAS (PFOA 3.6, PFOS 2.1 ng/L); fish fillets held 31.79 ng/g in bluegill and 18.16 ng/g in catfish (PFOS 11 in bluegill). Drinking water limits are 4 ng/L for PFOA and PFOS; river water is not drinking water, but treatment plants that draw from it start from these numbers.

Farm chemicals (USGS estimate, 2018): farms in Franklin County used about 55 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 102 kg per square mile, 59th of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: glyphosate 21 t, atrazine 7 t, metolachlor 7 t, acetochlor 3 t, 2,4-D 2 t. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains; this county used 7 t of it.

Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 372 farms work 48,728 acres of Franklin County, with 12% of its land in cropland, 131 acres to a farm. 293 cattle, 3,404 laying hens, 688 broilers, 46 turkeys; 11,727 acres of corn and 20,845 of soybeans. Sales $72 million, 22% from animals and animal products. Manure and fertilizer from farms like these carry the phosphorus and nitrogen behind Ohio's algae and nitrate problems; withheld figures protect individual farms.

A watershed unit fails when any sampled stream in it fails; ditches in flat farm country fail on habitat and nutrients, city creeks on bacteria and sediment. Ohio's own report is at epa.ohio.gov; the EPA link on each unit's report page has the sampling detail.

Source: EPA ATTAINS (Ohio EPA 2024 Integrated Report), watershed assessment units overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection; shares are of the ZIP's land area · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map

Watershed

• Upper Scioto100% of residentsDrains to the Ohio River

H2Ohio: nearest project Hellbranch Meadows West Wetland Restoration Project, inland flow-through wetland, completed, 8.6 mi away: This project captures, stores, and passively treats stormwater, agricultural tile drainage, and surface runoff from nearby areas. This project adds 11 acres of ...; 0 within 5 miles, 10 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.

Source water: 68% of this ZIP drains to the river intake of Columbus Public Water System and sits inside its Ohio EPA source water protection area; 68% lies in the 1,000-foot stream corridor zone where spills and runoff matter most.

Watershed grants: 1 state or federal runoff project inside this ZIP (1 Section 319); nearest "Waterman Farm Agricultural BMP Demonstration Project (Phase 1)" by Franklin County SWCD (agricultural bmps, Section 319), 2.3 mi away; 13 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA project lists: Section 319 and GLRI through fiscal 2023, SWIF through 2017).

Road salt: nearest went to Franklin County Engineer's Office (equipment, 2024-2025), 4.4 mi away; 8 in Franklin County. H2Ohio pays for brine makers, calibrated spreaders and covered salt barns so less chloride reaches streams and wells.

The population center sits in the Hayden Run-Scioto River subwatershed; its water runs on through Roberts Millkin Ditch-Scioto River, then Kian Run-Scioto River, then Grant Run-Scioto River.

In 2015 Franklin County drew about 188 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 155.8 million for public supply (16% from wells, 1,244,700 people served at 51 gallons a person a day at home), 0.1 million for power plant cooling, 0.5 million for industry, 1.6 million for irrigation, 29.7 million for mining; 7,000 residents drew their own well water.

EnviroAtlas, Hayden Run-Scioto River: no land in the Conservation Reserve Program; 3,924 acres of grain crops; 73 miles of streams (1.5 per square mile); water use of 6.5 million gallons a day for homes and 25 thousand for farms; 37.7 inches of rain and snow a year; 10.7 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 0 kg per hectare a year as manure and 8.2 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 6% of the farmland sits on drained hydric soils; potentially restorable wetlands on farmland cover 8% of the subwatershed; 36% of the land is paved or roofed; 12% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).

Stream permits: 53% of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, where a project that fills, pipes or crosses a stream needs an individual Ohio EPA 401 water quality review; 47% drains toward high-quality waters farther down and might qualify for the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits after a field screening (Ohio EPA 401 nationwide permit eligibility map).

Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (HUC-8 subbasins by resident share, HUC-12 subwatershed at the population center) · 2020 census blocks · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels

Homes and income

Household income

$118,768 median

Income spread

7% of households earn under $25,000 a year, 58% $100,000 or more and 25% $200,000 or more

Rent

$1,501 a month, median gross

Owner-occupied

69% of 14,953 occupied homes; 67% of owners carry a mortgage

Typical home built

1966

Value spread

4% of owner-occupied homes are worth under $100,000 and 39% $500,000 or more; income per person $67,077 a year

Moved in

the typical owner moved in in 2011, the typical renter in 2019

Median age

37.5 years

Commute

22 minutes each way on average, 7% of commuters travel 45 minutes or more, 23% work from home

Housing stock

66% single-family detached, 15% in buildings of 5 or more units; 1.1% of homes are crowded (more than one person a room)

Vacancy

3.1% of 15,438 housing units are vacant: 1.3% for rent, 0.5% held for seasonal or occasional use, 1.4% other, such as homes held off the market, in probate or abandoned

Owner costs

23% of owners with a mortgage and 17% of owners without one spend 30% or more of income on housing

Evictions

0.69 eviction filings a year per 100 renter households in 2016 to 2018, 0.34 ending in a judgement (about 16 filings a year; Eviction Lab)

Fair market rent

$1,750 a month for a two-bedroom (one-bedroom $1,460, three-bedroom $2,100): HUD's fiscal 2026 small-area fair market rent, the benchmark for housing vouchers in the Columbus metro area

Tax returns

17,120 returns for 2022 averaging $176,687 of adjusted gross income; 17% reported under $25,000 and 19% reported $200,000 or more; 5% claimed the earned income credit and 29% were filed by people 60 or older (IRS)

Redlining

15% of this ZIP's area was graded on the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation's late-1930s Columbus map: 13% grade A (best), 2% grade B (still desirable)

Subsidized housing

no public housing, tax-credit or HUD-assisted multifamily property inside this ZIP

Banks

17 full-service bank branches from 13 banks inside this ZIP (FDIC); 1 credit union branch from 1 credit union (NCUA)

Strain

36% of renters pay 30% or more of income in rent; 2% of households have no vehicle; the median renter spends 25.3% of income on rent; the median owner with a mortgage spends 19.2% of income on housing costs

Five-year survey averages centered on 2022; small ZIPs carry wide margins of error, and owner-estimated values run below sale prices in a rising market.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area; Eviction Lab (Princeton) tract estimates 2016 to 2018, weighted to the ZIP; HUD fiscal 2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP data, tax year 2022; Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond), HOLC maps 1935 to 1940; HUD eGIS open data for subsidized housing; FDIC BankFind branch locations; NCUA credit union branch list, March 2026 · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data

Houses and neighborhoods

Homes

10,339 one-family houses, 159 two-family houses, 20 three-family houses, 2,889 condominiums; also 172 apartment buildings and 41 other residential parcels

Age

15% built before 1950, 65% before 1978 (1978: the year lead paint was banned for housing)

Size

median living area 1,600 sq ft; median lot 0.22 acres (condominiums left out)

Value

median appraised value $371,500 (tax year 2025): the county auditor's market value for property tax, not a sale price

Sales

464 sales in the 12 months to Aug 15, 2026 (median $475,000); 2,157 sales in 5 years (median $440,000, $299 a sq ft). Counted: sales the auditor marked valid or has not yet reviewed (sales marked not valid, and unreviewed ones under $10,000, are left out), single-parcel sales of homes, one per house (its newest)

Owners

77% owner-occupied (homes receiving the owner-occupancy tax credit); 16% company-owned

Neighborhoods

3 neighborhoods and 167 subdivisions (details load below)

Show neighborhoods and houses

The houses load when you search, pick a filter or press the button (the pack for this part of the state, a few megabytes). Zoomed in on the map, each house of this ZIP draws as a dot that follows the search and filters.

Source: county auditors' appraisal records: Franklin County Auditor (as of Aug 15, 2026); residential parcels placed in ZIPs by the atlas; neighborhood boundaries as the cities publish them (the layers used here are named once the houses load); owner names are not carried · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats

Building permits

Mix

220 single-family houses, 0 units in buildings of five or more, 20 in duplexes and small buildings

Value

$212.2 million of construction at the value declared on the permits

By year

2016: 30, 2017: 19, 2018: 12, 2019: 23, 2020: 36, 2021: 30, 2022: 28, 2023: 20, 2024: 22, 2025: 20, 2026 through July: 12

Caveat

5 of the ten years had fewer than 12 months reported by the permit office; the Census Bureau estimates the missing months, so those counts are partly or wholly imputed

Survey counts are permits issued, not houses finished, and cover new residential construction only: additions, remodels, garages and commercial buildings are not in the survey. Values are the applicants' estimates. Where a city runs the building department for its township neighbours, the city's figure covers them too.

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025 (new privately owned residential units authorized), for the permit-issuing jurisdiction where most of this ZIP's residents live · Census building permits

Home prices

Five years

+46% from 2020 to 2025

Last year

+5% in 2025

Since 2000

prices stand at 2.8 times their 2000 level

Series

tracked since 1975

Zillow's typical home value here is $469K (2026-07), up 2% over the year, up 22% over five years and up 71% over ten. Typical asking rent $1,888 a month (2026-07), up 1% over the year.

On the market (Realtor.com, August 2026): median asking price $469,900 (down 7.9% in a year), $281 per square foot for a typical 1,965 sq ft listing; 61 active listings, 52 new this month; listings spend a median 40 days on the market (up 27% from a year earlier); 30% of listings have cut their price.

The index follows the same houses through repeat sales and refinance appraisals on conforming mortgages, so it measures price change rather than the price level (the Homes card has the median value). Consumer prices rose about 36% from 2015 to 2025, so a gain under 36% is a loss in real terms.

Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted), latest release; Zillow Home Value Index (mid-tier, smoothed, seasonally adjusted) and Zillow Observed Rent Index by ZIP, Zillow Research · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data

Local taxes

Upper Arlington City 63% of residents

44.1 effective mills (120.5 gross); $3,084 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 31.6, bonds 5.7, improvements 1.1, inside millage 5.7.

Hilliard City 24% of residents

42.9 effective mills (97.8 gross); $3,003 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 33.4, bonds 4.0, improvements 1.1, inside millage 4.5.

Municipal income tax

Upper Arlington 2.5% (61% of residents), Columbus 2.5% (35% of residents); township residents outside a city or village pay none. Charged on wages and business profits where you work and, after credits, where you live.

School district income tax

Upper Arlington City none (63% of residents), Hilliard City none (24% of residents), Columbus City none (13% of residents). About a third of Ohio districts levy one.

Sales tax

8% combined rate in Franklin County: Ohio's 5.75% plus county and transit levies.

A mill is $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, and taxable value is 35% of market value. Effective rates fall as values rise because Ohio holds most voted levies to the dollars first approved. County, municipal or township, library, park and vocational-school levies are added on the same bill and are not counted here.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (composite DTE 515); weighted by the share of this ZIP's residents in each district; The Finder rate tables for municipal, school district and sales taxes, September 2026 · Ohio tax data series · The Finder

Who delivers the electricity

• AEP Ohio investor-owned100% of residentsAmerican Electric Power (AEP)

Columbus Division of Power, the city's own utility, also serves customers inside the city limits here. The two territories interleave block by block, so the split is not mapped.

AEP Ohio outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 272 minutes (158 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 1.1 interruptions a year.

AEP Ohio standard service offer price, 2024: 19.33 cents per kWh, about $174 a month for the average home, for the 550,768 residential customers who have not chosen a supplier; the other 788,464 pay AEP Ohio 10.75 cents per kWh for delivery plus their supplier's price (EIA-861).

AEP Ohio solar and meters, 2024: 11,606 customers run net-metered solar (158.9 MW, 11,036 of them homes); 79% of its 1,541,883 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 21% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Energy burden: households here spend an average 1.6% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $2,415 a year against $149,915 of income); the 24% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 5.6%, and 9% of households fall in groups averaging 6% or more, the usual line for a high burden (DOE LEAD Tool, 2022 update, built from 2018 to 2022 survey data).

Source: PUCO certified territories via ODOT · HIFLD retail service territories (EIA Form 861) · 2020 census blocks · outage statistics from EIA-861 Reliability, 2024 with 2023 where a utility skipped a year (SAIDI and SAIFI, IEEE 1366) · residential prices from EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, net metering and advanced meters from the EIA-861 files of the same years · DOE LEAD Tool 2022 household energy burden by tract, apportioned into ZIPs by block population · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories

Natural gas here

75% of the 14,953 homes here heat with utility gas.

Utility gas 75%Electricity 24%Propane or LP 1%Oil, wood, other 0%

• Columbia Gas of Ohio regulated utility100% of residents, main companyNiSource Inc.

Pipes under the street: Columbia Gas of Ohio reported 20,620 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 64% plastic and 6.6% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 3,271 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.

PUCO lists 5 companies operating in Franklin County: Columbia Gas of Ohio, Knox Energy Cooperative Association, Inc., National Gas and Oil Cooperative, Northeast Ohio Natural Gas Corporation, Village of Obetz.

Source: PUCO gas distribution companies by county, April 2026 · federal (EIA) territory polygons, 2016 · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD

Power plants

Nearest plant of any size: PS ST-8 Engine No 1, 4.6 mi (oil, 2 MW).

6 plants within 10 miles totalling 13 MW: 4 oil (7 MW), 1 hydro (5 MW), 1 solar (1 MW).

Solar: 3100 Valleyview Drive, 1 MW AC (2023), 2 acres, 4.2 mi away; 2 utility-scale solar farms within 15 miles.

Capacity is net summer capacity in megawatts (EIA), not output; a solar farm's 200 MW runs a quarter of the hours a gas plant's would. Small peaking engines and landfill-gas units count as plants.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 860 plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025); USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database and U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database; NRC emergency planning zones around Perry and Davis-Besse (residents inside the roughly 10-mile zone counted by 2020 census block); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones

Gas transmission pipelines

No transmission line crosses this ZIP.

Transmission lines run at hundreds of pounds of pressure and are inspected under federal rules; the distribution mains that actually feed homes are a separate, denser network not shown here. By mileage in this EIA layer Ohio's map is dominated by Columbia Gas Transmission and East Ohio Gas's intrastate lines; Texas Eastern and the Rover and Nexus lines built for Utica shale gas are among the other large interstate systems.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural Gas Interstate and Intrastate Pipelines layer (data last updated July 2025, pulled September 2026), via the ArcGIS Online copy maintained by Esri's Federal User Community; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; lengths clipped to the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item

Incumbent telephone company

• AT&T Ohio100% of residentsIncumbent local exchange carrier

Source: PUCO incumbent local exchange carrier service areas · 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone

Internet

Served, 100/20 Mbps or better 100%Underserved, 25/3 to 100/20 0%Unserved, under 25/3 0%

Fiber reaches 56% of locations, cable 100%; a year earlier 100% were served.

Of 14,953 households, 93% subscribe to cable, fiber or DSL, 5% rely on a cellular plan only, and 2% have no internet at home.

Measured by Ookla speed tests, April to June 2025: typical fixed download 316.1 Mbps, upload 121.1 Mbps, 18 ms latency, across 1,851 tests from up to 595 devices in 104 map tiles.

Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024 (availability) · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (subscriptions) · Ookla Open Data, fixed-network speed tests by tile, 2025 Q2 (measured speeds) · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS

Cell signal

• AT&T4G 100% · 5G 100%
• T-Mobile4G 100% · 5G 100%
• Verizon4G 100% · 5G 69%

Registered towers: 7 antenna structures registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 20 within 3 miles of its center; the tallest inside is a 476-foot guyed tower. Only structures over 200 feet or near airports must register, so most cell sites on short poles, water towers and rooftops are not counted.

Measured mobile speeds (Ookla speed tests, April to June 2026): typical download 483 Mbps, upload 41 Mbps, latency 29 ms over 97 tests from up to 51 devices in 34 map tiles.

Coverage as the carriers report it to the FCC for outdoor use at a stationary spot, by land area rather than by residents; indoor signal and rural hollows can be worse.

Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection via Esri Living Atlas (layer last updated November 2025, i.e. the June 30, 2025 filing round), carrier-reported outdoor coverage by hexagon, summed over the ZIP's land; FCC Antenna Structure Registration database, September 2026; Ookla open data mobile tiles, 2026 Q2 · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data

EV charging

10 public stations inside this ZIP with 28 Level 2 and 5 DC fast ports, 1 listed as free; the nearest of any kind is LAZ PARKING COL KINGSDALE 1, 1.2 mi. 78 stations within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 13 with DC fast charging.

Networks here: ChargePoint (9), non-networked (1).

Level 2 adds roughly 20 to 30 miles of range an hour; DC fast charging fills most cars in under an hour. Listings are operator-reported and lag new openings and closures.

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center via the U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public, open electric stations, the posts at one site merged, restricted-access sites excluded), and chargers in neighbouring states near the border; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; station list as of May 29, 2026 · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)

Public transit

80 stops inside this ZIP: COTA (80).

Only fixed-route systems that publish a GTFS feed appear; dial-a-ride and demand-response services do not, and a handful of small fixed-route systems publish no feed at all. Half a mile is roughly a ten-minute walk.

Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds; share of 2020 census block population within half a mile of a stop · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed

Walkability

Street grid

116 intersections per square mile, a fine-grained grid

Transit

65% of residents live in a block group whose population center is within three-quarters of a mile of a stop in the EPA's 2020 transit file, on average 577 metres away

Mix of uses

employment mix 0.53 and mix of homes and job types 0.40 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied

Car-free households

2% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

The index scores every block group on intersection density, distance to transit and how mixed its jobs and homes are, then ranks them against the whole country. It measures the street pattern, not sidewalks, safety or hills.

Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by census block group, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks; car-free households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 table B25044 (the Homes card), or, where that is missing, the Smart Location Database's own 2014 to 2018 share weighted by households · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS

Rail crossings

1 with gates; railroads: CSX (1). Busiest crossing: 7 trains a day reported; fastest line 20 mph.

Franklin County has logged 68 rail accidents since 2010, 40 of them derailments, 3 hazmat cars releasing, 200 people evacuated (FRA Form 54). Yard mishaps at walking speed dominate; main-line derailments are the rare, dangerous ones.

Train counts and speeds are the railroad's last inventory update. Crossings with only crossbucks rely on the driver; Ohio has averaged about 77 crossing collisions a year from 2010 to 2025 (FRA Form 57), between 64 and 87 in a year.

Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Grade Crossing Inventory (Form 71, current records); crossings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary, closed crossings excluded; nearest crossing measured from the population-weighted center. Collisions are FRA Form 57 crossing incidents since 2010, placed by crossing id through the inventory's coordinates; train accidents are FRA Form 54 rail equipment accidents since 2010, placed by their own reported coordinates, counted one per incident rather than one per report (county totals from the same file). All three pulled from data.transportation.gov, September 2026 · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data

Bridges

Age

typical bridge built 1995, 1 built before 1950; oldest 1941, Dublin Rd over Hayden Run (Dublin)

Busiest

Trabue Rd over Private Road (Trabue Rd), 19,834 vehicles a day (2015 count)

Owners

county 6, city 4

Ratings come from the inspection every bridge gets at least every two years; poor means deterioration that needs repair, not imminent danger. FHWA's file is a yearly snapshot with inspections through early 2025, so a bridge replaced, re-rated or closed since then still shows its old rating here; ODOT's TIMS bridge inventory carries the current one. Traffic figures are the average daily counts the bridge owners filed with the inventory; most Ohio counts date from 2015 and some are older. County engineers own most of Ohio's small bridges and ODOT the big ones.

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory 2025 (Ohio file); structures whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary; condition from NBI items 58, 59, 60 and 62 (deck, superstructure, substructure, culvert) · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)

Traffic

Trucks

18,582 a day on I-270, 15% of its traffic

Driving

about 510K vehicle-miles a day on the 145 counted segments inside the ZIP; the typical segment carries 9,003 vehicles

Freeway volumes

3 segments carry 50,000 or more a day

Busiest local road

county road 52, 25,890 vehicles a day

Annual average daily traffic is both directions combined, averaged over the year. County, township and city roads are labelled by their route number, which ODOT uses instead of the street name. Most city streets have no count, so the busiest local road is the busiest counted one. Interchange ramps are left out of the busiest-road pick; a ZIP with nothing but ramps shows one labelled ramp and its ODOT number.

Road deaths: 7 people died in 6 crashes inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (1 motorcyclist); 1 involved a drinking driver and 4 happened in the dark. That is 4.1 deaths a year per 100,000 residents against 10.6 across Ohio's ZIPs; deaths are counted where the crash happened, and many who die live elsewhere. (NHTSA FARS)

Source: ODOT traffic count segments, 2025 annual average daily traffic (ODOT TIMS); segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024, crashes placed by their coordinates · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS

Airports and trains

Nearest airfield

Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, 3.9 mi, public use

Amtrak

South Shore-South Portsmouth station, 90.2 mi (South Shore, KY)

Ohio's Amtrak stops are on the Floridian (Amtrak has temporarily combined the Capitol Limited with the Silver Star), the Lake Shore Limited and the Cardinal, all overnight trains; Cincinnati's only calls three times a week. Amtrak's Thruway bus stops, Dayton-Trotwood among them, are not counted as stations here. Airline service at Toledo and Rickenbacker is limited to a few routes; Youngstown-Warren has had no airline flights since 2018.

Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · BTS transportation atlas

Radon in this ZIP

58% of tests at or above EPA's 4 pCi/L action level · median 4.9 · highest 121.7

A ZIP average says nothing about one house; readings next door can differ tenfold. Test yours, and fix it at 4 pCi/L or more.

Source: odh.ohio.gov radon levels by ZIP code, tests since 2010, before mitigation · ODH radon program

Flood zones

3.9% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain, and another 0.8% is in the 0.2% (500-year) zone; 0.1% of residents live in the 0.2% zone. Zones mapped here: AE, X (0.2%).

Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 5.6 inches in 24 hours (2.8 in a single hour, 4.3 in six); a 2-year storm 2.6, 10-year 3.7, 25-year 4.4, 500-year 7.1 inches in 24 hours. Storm sewers, culverts and detention ponds are sized from these numbers, and a "100-year" storm has a 1% chance every year.

Nearest river gauge: Scioto River at 5Th Ave at Columbus OH, 2.5 mi away, draining 1,050 square miles. Record flow 22,200 cubic feet a second at a stage of 23.67 ft on 2025-04-06; the highest since 2016 was 22,200 on 2025-04-06 (USGS, 10 annual peaks, 2015 to 2025).

141 federal flood insurance policies are in force in this ZIP, covering $28 million of buildings; 82% of them are in a mapped high-risk zone; the typical policy costs $745 a year (about 1% of households).

38 federal flood insurance claims from this ZIP since 1978, 1 since 2010, paying about $46,115 in all; the worst year was 1979 with 33 claims.

Levees: nearest is a levee along Olentangy River, 3.4 mi away (accredited).

Community status: Upper Arlington takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 06/17/08. Columbus takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 06/16/11. Franklin County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 06/16/11.

Lenders require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in the 1% zone (zones A and AE). Block centers understate narrow floodplains in rural areas, so check the FEMA map for a specific address.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective flood insurance rate maps, levee centerlines) · 2020 census block centers · ZIP land area by polygon overlay, open water excluded; NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency at the ZIP center; USGS NWIS annual peak flows; OpenFEMA NFIP policies in force by reported ZIP as of September 2026, NFIP redacted claims and the Community Status Book · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges

Natural hazard risk

• Hail70
• Cold wave69

FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $8.6 million a year in buildings, crops and lives.

The index blends how often a hazard strikes, what it would cost, and how vulnerable and resilient the community is. Inland flooding (rivers and heavy rain) scores 42, tornado 55, winter weather 47.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, weighted to this ZIP by 2020 block population · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)

Climate

Temperature

52.8°F average; typical January low 21°, July high 85°

Hot and cold days

23 days a year reach 90°F; 113 nights fall below freezing, 4 below 0°F; 27 days never climb above freezing

Rain and snow

44.7 inches of precipitation on 95 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 19 inches of snow on 7 days with an inch or more, snow on the ground 26 days

Degree days

5,417 heating, 995 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill

Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Franklin County has spent 32 weeks in moderate drought or worse, 11 of them severe or worse (most recently 11 weeks in 2024), and 65 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was extreme drought in 2024/09; 5% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.

Long run (NOAA, Franklin County): the average year ran 53.2 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 51.5 °F over 1901 to 1930, 1.7 °F warmer (1.8 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 56.4 °F, and 2025 came in at 53.1 °F. Precipitation averaged 41.7 inches a year lately against 39.7 a century ago, 5% more; the wettest year was 2018 with 55.1 inches, and 2025 brought 39.4. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.

Stations: Columbus Wcmh (2.8 mi, temperature and precipitation); Westerville (10.1 mi, snowfall; 26 years of snowfall record). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (annual/seasonal and monthly); nearest reporting station to the ZIP's population-weighted center for each element; U.S. Drought Monitor county statistics · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

Air quality

Worst days

98th-percentile day 18.9 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)

Ozone

66 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at Maple Canyon, 7.8 mi away (standard 70)

Franklin County AQI, 2025

147 good days, 213 moderate, 5 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse of the 365 days indexed; peak 156, median 53

Franklin County AQI, 2026 so far

61 good days, 59 moderate and 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse in the 120 days indexed through April 30; peak 81 (PM2.5)

Air toxics

30 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Franklin County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (18) and carbon tetrachloride (3)

Permitted sources

2 permitted air sources inside this ZIP under the Clean Air Act; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Nearest major source Sonoco Metal Packaging, LLC. - Columbus in Columbus, 3.1 mi (EPA ECHO)

Air standards

Franklin County is a maintenance area for ozone (2008) (Columbus, OH, redesignated 2016), ozone (2015) (Columbus, OH, redesignated 2019), fine particulate (1997) (Columbus, OH, redesignated 2013), meaning it once failed that standard and must keep a plan to stay clean (EPA Green Book)

Ohio has 38 PM2.5 monitors, mostly in cities and near industry, so a rural ZIP borrows a reading from far away. 2025 includes Canadian wildfire smoke days. Air-toxics risk is EPA's modelled lifetime estimate for the county as a whole; EPA's national average is about 30 in a million, and formaldehyde, with the globally mixed carbon tetrachloride background and acetaldehyde, makes up most of it.

Source: EPA Air Quality System, 2025 annual summary files (monitor annual concentrations, county AQI) and the 2026 daily county AQI file; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest monitor · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO

Toxic and Superfund sites

3 facilities have reported toxic chemical releases or transfers to EPA's inventory from inside this ZIP, and 0 sites appear in the Superfund program's list (most assessed and never listed).

95 EPA-registered facilities of all kinds in this ZIP: 0 brownfield sites in the cleanup program, 33 hazardous-waste handlers, 2 with air permits, 23 with water discharge permits.

Nearest landfill: Marble Cliff Quarry Sanitary Landfill, 1.5 mi from the center, municipal solid waste landfill; 1 landfill site within 3 miles of the population center. Ohio EPA's list includes closed and historic dumps.

State cleanup program: 5 sites inside this ZIP (Buckeye Terminix; Lane Ave Shopping Ctr; North Star Rd Dump and more), 9 within 3 miles of the population center; the nearest is Marble Cliff Quarries Dump, 1.7 mi from the center, site assessment.

Voluntary cleanups: 3 properties inside this ZIP hold an Ohio EPA covenant not to sue after a Voluntary Action Program cleanup; 6 such properties within 3 miles of the population center, nearest Kingsdale Shopping Center, 1.1 mi. These are former industrial and commercial sites certified clean enough to reuse.

Solid waste: no licensed solid waste facility inside this ZIP; nearest Rumpke Waste Inc Columbus Trans & Recy Fac (transfer station), 5.2 mi from the center; 0 within 5 miles of the center (Ohio EPA licences, 2026). Compost sites and transfer stations are where most of a county's trash and yard waste actually goes.

Hazardous waste (EPA ECHO): 13 active RCRA handlers inside this ZIP; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.

Underground tanks: 9 sites with 25 registered underground storage tanks in use (72 more tanks closed over the years); 53 leaking-tank releases on record, 2 open at the time, 25 inside a drinking-water source protection area; 4 reported since 2015, the latest in 2018 (EPA UST Finder, Ohio records as of 2018-2019).

Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is Gina's Tire Shop, Columbus, 5.5 mi away (6 within 15 mi); the nearest household battery drop-off is Lowe's, Hilliard, 2.1 mi away (43 within 15 mi) (Ohio EPA).

The inventory covers larger manufacturers and federal facilities that use listed chemicals; reporting means use or release, not a measured hazard to neighbours. Superfund status: on, proposed for, or deleted from the list after cleanup.

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS and NPL) sites and Toxics Release Inventory reporters, points inside the ZIP boundary; distance from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO

Toxic releases

Where it went

0 lb to the air, 0 lb to surface water, 0 lb to land or underground injection; another 0 lb was shipped off site for disposal or release

Facilities

Allied Mineral Products Inc. (Nonmetallic Mineral Product): 0 lb

Trend

nothing was released on site in 2020

Pounds are what facilities report, not what reaches anyone: a ton of ammonia to the air and an ounce of mercury to a river are not the same risk. Off-site transfers go mostly to landfills and treatment plants elsewhere.

Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, basic data files for Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown); facilities placed by their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams are left out of the pound totals · EPA TRI data files

Dams

Nearest high-hazard dam: Julian Griggs Dam, 0.9 mi, condition fair (water supply, 52 ft high, 16K acre-feet, built 1905, on Scioto River, local government owned).

Inside this ZIP: 1 dam, 0 high-hazard, 0 rated poor: Osu Golf Course Lake Dam (significant hazard, condition fair).

"High hazard" describes what a failure would do downstream, not the dam's shape; Ohio rates more than a third of its inventoried dams in poor condition, mostly small private lake dams. Emergency action plans are required for high-hazard dams.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (August 2026 release); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Condition assessments come from Ohio's dam safety program. · National Inventory of Dams

Disasters on record

Strongest nearby: F3 on 1973-05-10, 89.6 mi track (8 injured).

23 federal declarations for Franklin County since Ohio's first in 1956 (17 major disasters): severe storm 11, flood 3, snowstorm 3. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).

0 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970.

Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Franklin County): 22 tornado warnings (2015: 1, 2017: 2, 2018: 3, 2019: 2, 2020: 5, 2023: 2, 2024: 4, 2025: 1, 2026: 2), 226 severe thunderstorm warnings, 30 flash flood warnings, 40 flood warnings and 182 flood advisories, 10 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 29 heat warnings or advisories, 7 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 6 snow squall warnings; 1,139 products in all.

Mitigation grants (FEMA): 13 hazard mitigation projects in Franklin County since 1996, worth $7.6 million ($4.3 million federal), covering 46 properties; mostly property buyouts, mitigation planning, studies. Largest: property buyouts for Franklin County Board Of County Commissioners, $2.2 million (fiscal 2012).

Mitigated properties: FEMA money has treated 2 properties in this ZIP between 2011 and 2013: 2 safe rooms built. Buyouts turn repeatedly flooded lots into permanent open space.

Disaster aid to households: 32 households in this ZIP registered with FEMA after 4 declared disasters; 21 were approved for $101,976 of housing and other-needs help. Registrations by event: COVID-19 pandemic (2020): 13; tornadoes, flooding, severe storms and high winds (2003): 10; severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides (2005): 8.

351 severe weather reports for Franklin County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 162 damaging thunderstorm wind, 90 hail, 58 river and street flooding, 30 flash floods. Largest hail 1.75 in (Sep 1, 2019); strongest measured gust 69 mph (Mar 22, 2026); 2 deaths and 3 injuries; about $2.6 million in reported damage, the costliest being tornadoes on Sep 26, 2018 ($750K). Zone-wide advisories add 66 winter weather, 15 high wind, 5 strong wind.

Tornado tracks are straight lines from touchdown to lift-off; a near miss counts, a direct hit is not distinguished. Declarations include the 2020 COVID-19 emergency for every county; the latest, declared 2 May 2024 (DR-4777), covers the 14 March 2024 tornadoes in eleven counties, Indian Lake among them.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025; OpenFEMA disaster declarations summaries; USGS earthquake catalog (M2+, 1970 to date); NOAA Storm Events database 2016 to 2026 by county. Distances from the ZIP's population-weighted center. · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive

Spills and releases

What spilled

oils and hydraulic fluid (7), industrial, farm and drilling chemicals (2), unidentified material or sheen (2)

Largest

about 60 gallons of oil hydraulic fluid(s) in 2023, Upper Arlington

Reached water

2 of them reached a creek, river, ditch or storm drain (named or unnamed)

By year

2021: 0, 2022: 2, 2023: 5, 2024: 4, 2025: 1, 2026: 0

Anyone who spills more than a reportable quantity must call Ohio EPA within 30 minutes, so the log mixes a few gallons of diesel on a highway shoulder with real releases; the reported volume is the caller's first estimate. Every report in Ohio EPA's open-data layer carries coordinates; air-pollution complaints and calls where nothing was found are left out of this count.

Source: Ohio EPA Emergency Response spill reports (Spills2 open data), reports with coordinates inside the ZIP boundary, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response

Oil and gas wells

Status

0 producing, 1 plugged or abandoned, the rest drilled but idle, gas storage, orphan, expired permits or unknown

Ohio has drilled since 1860, so most wells here are old, shallow and plugged; unplugged orphans and injection wells are the ones that matter for groundwater. Well-head points can be a few hundred feet off for the oldest records.

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, public well inventory (well-head points); counts inside the ZIP boundary and within 1 mile of the ZIP's population-weighted center · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services

Abandoned mines

Undermined land can subside and old workings can discharge acid mine water; ODNR's Abandoned Mine Land program funds repairs, and mine-subsidence insurance is included automatically in 26 eastern counties and offered as an option in 11 more. Maps drawn before 1977 are incomplete, so "none" means none mapped.

Quarries, pits and working mines: nearest Agg Rok (clay, sand & gravel, Agg Rok Materials, 20,000 tons sold), 8.3 mi away in Franklin County; 0 within 3 miles, 2 within 10 (ODNR Industrial Minerals Locations, 2015, which includes surface and underground coal mines).

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mines of Ohio (abandoned underground mine maps, coal and industrial minerals, pre-1977), overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey

Soils and septic

Soil

Crosby-Urban land complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes; Crosby makes up 45% of the unit, 4% slope

Water

somewhat poorly drained; flooding none, ponding none

Septic

Very limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule

Basements

Very limited for dwellings with basements

Farmland

Not prime farmland

Elevation

850 feet above sea level at the ZIP's population center; Ohio runs from 455 feet where the Ohio River leaves the state to 1,549 feet at Campbell Hill

One point stands for the ZIP; soils change field by field, and a site evaluation is what the health department goes by. "Very limited" means the standard design will not work, not that nothing will.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, SSURGO soil survey via Soil Data Access; the map unit at the ZIP's population-weighted center and its dominant component's interpretations; Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model (via Open-Meteo) at that center · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation

Parks and public land

Scioto Country Club

private park, 160 acres inside the ZIP

Griggs Park

local park, 114 acres inside the ZIP

Nearest state park: Alum Creek State Park, 12.4 mi.

Protected land: 7.4% of this ZIP (472 acres) is in the USGS Protected Areas Database inventory of fee-owned parks, preserves and recreation land (public agencies, land trusts, and private clubs, camps and utility land, as their owners report it): 283 acres local, 160 acres private, 29 acres unknown. Largest: Scioto Country Club (private owner), 160 acres; Griggs Park (city), 115 acres; Fred Beekman Park (city), 53 acres. 7% of the ZIP is protected land open to the public.

Trails: no built named trail crosses this ZIP; 1.7 miles more are proposed or planned; nearest is the Olentangy/Scioto Multi-Use Trail, 2.9 mi from the ZIP's center (ODNR statewide trails inventory).

Open access as reported by each owner; local inventories vary, so a golf course or school field can be listed and a new park missed.

State lands nearby (ODNR facility layers): nearest boat ramp: New Galena Launch Ramp at Alum Creek State Park, 13.8 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Fishing Access at Alum Creek State Park, 13.4 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at Alum Creek State Park, 16.9 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Campground/Campsite at Alum Creek State Park, 15.7 mi (0 within 5 miles).

Source: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States 4.1 (open-access fee, designation and easement polygons), overlaid on the ZIP boundary; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest ODNR state park · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services

Wetlands

26 acres pond, 11 acres forested/shrub wetland. Largest single wetland: 9 acres of freshwater pond.

High-quality wetlands: nearest is Griggs Reservoir Park (City of Columbus Parks and Recreation), 9 acres, 4.6 mi away; 2 within 10 miles.

Mitigation sites: nearest Central Park aka SOMA development Phase 2, 2.3 mi away (a permittee-responsible site under an environmental covenant); 11 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.

Assessed wetland: 2 Ohio EPA study wetlands inside this ZIP; nearest N220_010, a wetland, 1 mi away: ORAM 71 of 100 (category 3), plant community index 39 of 100 (surveyed 2010); 57 within 10 miles. Category 3 wetlands are the state's best and hardest to fill; category 1 are degraded.

Mapped from aerial photography, mostly 2004 to 2007 (the Lake Erie watersheds were re-mapped from 2021 imagery, a few areas date from 1976 to 2005 or 2014 to 2023), so small and seasonal wetlands are undercounted and ponds dug or filled since then are missing; a site delineation decides whether a lot is jurisdictional. Emergent means marsh, forested and shrub means swamp.

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory (Ohio geodatabase), freshwater wetland and pond polygons clipped to the ZIP boundary; lakes and river channels excluded, imagery mostly 2004 to 2007 (Lake Erie basin 2021) · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services

Land cover

Developed

93%: 5% high intensity (downtown blocks, big-box lots), 22% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 45% low (houses on larger lots), 22% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)

Farmland

2.6%: 1.8% row crops, 0.8% pasture and hay

Crops 2025

of 139 cropped acres, 29% soybeans, 24% corn, 1% wheat and small grains, 5% hay and alfalfa, 41% vegetables, orchards, fallow and other crops; 8 acres of pasture and grass (USDA Cropland Data Layer)

Forest

1.0%

Water and wetland

2.9% open water, 0.0% wetland

Paved and roofed

36% of the ZIP's surface is impervious; rain that lands there runs straight to a storm drain or stream instead of soaking in

Tree canopy

19% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy

Area

9.6 square miles of land

Land cover is classified from Landsat imagery at 30 metre pixels, so a house on a wooded lot can read as forest and a farm lane as open space. Stream health starts to slip once about 10% of a watershed is impervious, and is usually poor above 25%.

Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, summarised over the ZIP boundary · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation

People

Education

70.5% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 30.2% a graduate degree; 11.6% stopped at high school or earlier

Ages

25.1% under 18, 14.4% 65 or older

Race and origin

82% white, 3.4% Black, 3.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.5% Asian, 4.9% other or two or more races

Born abroad

8.4% of residents (2,966 people); largest countries of birth: China (542), India (408), Algeria (147)

Veterans

4% of adults

Households

2.4 people per household on average; 32% of households are one person living alone, 50% married couples

Who lives here

32% of households include children, 26% someone 65 or over and 11.9% are a senior living alone; of people 15 and over, 57% are married, 28% never married, 10% divorced and 4% widowed

Poverty

5.5% of residents live below the poverty line, 5.0% of children and 5.8% of people 65 and over; the Gini index of income inequality is 0.47 (0 would mean every household earns the same, 1 that one household earns everything). County-wide, the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate is 13.9% (17.8% of children) with a median household income of $76,578 (SAIPE)

Ancestry

most often reported: German 26%, Irish 18%, English 15%

Movers

14.1% of residents lived somewhere else a year earlier, 1.5% in another state and 0.6% abroad

Language

1.3% of households speak limited English; 2.3% speak Spanish at home

Group quarters

51 of the 33,844 people counted here in 2020 (0.2%) lived in group quarters: 51 in nursing facilities (2020 Census)

Moving

49,123 people moved into Franklin County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 58,702 moved out (net −9,579, 996,743 stayed put); most arrivals came from Delaware, OH (4,187), Fairfield, OH (3,219), Licking, OH (2,621); most leavers went to Delaware, OH (7,675), Fairfield, OH (5,116), Licking, OH (3,838) (IRS)

Metro or rural

USDA rural-urban continuum code 1 of 9 for Franklin County: metro - counties in metro areas of 1 million population or more

Nonprofits

403 tax-exempt organizations registered to addresses in this ZIP, 31 of them reporting $1 million or more in income; 41% are 501(c)(3) charities and 4% churches or religious groups; largest: Edison Welding Institute Inc ($36 million), Delta Gamma Fraternity Housing Corporation ($30 million), Delta Gamma Fraternity ($23 million) (IRS)

County growth

Franklin County went from 1,323,793 people in April 2020 to 1,361,536 in July 2025 (+2.9%): 86,662 births, 55,765 deaths and a net +7,126 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 7,191 left for elsewhere in the U.S. and 9,441 arrived from abroad (Census estimates)

Since 1900

First counted in 1810 with 3,486 people and 42,909 by 1850, Franklin County counted 164,460 people in 1900, 503,410 in 1950, 833,249 in 1970, 1,068,736 in 2000 and 1,323,793 in 2020; it has never been larger than today (8.3 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)

Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as the core of a metropolitan area (rural-urban commuting area code 1 of 10, 2020 edition).

Race shares follow the Census categories, with Hispanic origin counted separately from race. Five-year averages centered on 2022. Moves count people on tax returns whose address changed county, so students and the very poor are undercounted.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (tables B15003, B03002, B05002, B21001, B01001, B25010, B11001, B17001, B19083, B04006, B07003, C16002, B05006, B11005, B11007, B12001); county population estimates, vintage 2025; IRS exempt organization master file; USDA rural-urban continuum codes 2023; USDA ERS rural-urban commuting area codes 2020; 2020 Census PL 94-171 redistricting file, group quarters (table P5); IRS Statistics of Income county migration, returns filed in 2022 and 2023; Census SAIPE 2024 county poverty and median income; decennial county counts from the Census Bureau report Population of States and Counties of the United States 1790 to 1990 · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations

Jobs and commuting

Largest employers by sector: Hotels and restaurants 1,783, Information 1,476, Health care and social assistance 1,303. 58% of local jobs pay over $3,333 a month, and 70% of residents' jobs do.

Businesses: 704 establishments with 7,315 employees and $384 million a year in payroll in 2023, at least 8 of them with 100 or more workers; most common: professional and technical services (123), health care and social assistance (86), real estate (79), finance and insurance (76) (ZIP Business Patterns).

Workplace safety (OSHA): 57 inspections of workplaces in this ZIP since 2020 (5 after deaths or injury reports, 2 after complaints, 35 planned, 6 on referrals); most inspected: Skillz Contracting Co. (2), Hammer One Construction (1), Alejandro Perez (1). No worker death investigated since 2015; 1 hospitalisation.

County labor market: Franklin County's unemployment rate was 3.2% in July 2026 (4.6% a year earlier), with 733,351 people in the labor force and 23,736 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $1,596 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 5.1% on the year) to 784,853 workers at 39,434 establishments, employment up 0.7%; the largest private sectors are health care and social assistance (127,592 jobs, $1,172 a week), retail (64,238 jobs, $859 a week), restaurants and hotels (61,997 jobs, $540 a week). (BLS)

Working-age residents: 70.4% of people 16 and over here are in the labor force, and 3.0% of the civilian labor force was unemployed, averaged over 2020 to 2024 (Census ACS). Residents' most common occupations: management and business 22%, education, legal, community service and arts 16%, computing, engineering and science 13%; 9% are self-employed and 17% work for a government.

Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $4.2 billion in contracts performed in Franklin County ($3,138 a resident) and $12.5 billion in grants ($9,472 a resident), plus $85 million in loan guarantees and loans and $7.2 billion in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).

County economy: Franklin County produced $111.9 billion of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, up 11.0% since 2019); personal income came to $66,705 a person in 2024, 13th of Ohio's 88 counties and up 32% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).

County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Franklin County is a metro county with a government-dependent economy, with none of the ERS distress flags.

Opportunity zone: 1% of residents live in a census tract designated a federal Qualified Opportunity Zone in 2018, where investors who put capital gains into local projects get tax breaks (CDFI Fund list, 2010 tracts carried to 2020 boundaries).

How they get there: 71% drive alone, 3.5% carpool, 0.3% transit, 0.5% walk, 0.5% bike, 23.2% work from home (ACS).

Where residents work: 5% inside this ZIP; 14% in Columbus (43215), 10% in Columbus (43210), 5% in Dublin (43017) (shares of the 16,882 residents with an Ohio workplace).

Unemployment-insurance records tie each job to a workplace and a home address; large employers sometimes report every worker at a headquarters, which inflates a few ZIPs. Self-employment, the military, the Postal Service, most farm work and a large part of federal civilian employment are missing (federal jobs come from OPM records that omit several agencies and, in practice, most of Wright-Patterson).

Source: Census Bureau LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, all jobs; populated census blocks assigned to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas by interior point, workplace-only blocks by the majority ZCTA of their block group or tract; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023; OSHA enforcement data via the Labor Department open data catalog; BLS county unemployment (LAUS) and wages (QCEW); Census ACS 2020 to 2024 labor force by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (B23025); USAspending federal awards by county, fiscal 2025; BEA county GDP and personal income · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones

Upward mobility

Meaning

children from low-income families here reached or passed the national middle by their mid-thirties

Coverage

68% of the ZIP's residents live in tracts with an estimate

The rank describes people born around 1980 who were children here in the 1980s and 1990s; neighbourhoods change, so it is a record of what the place did for one generation, not a forecast. Estimates for small tracts are noisy.

Source: Opportunity Atlas tract outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, 2018; Census Bureau and IRS data for children born 1978 to 1983), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

Social vulnerability

Socioeconomic status

14th percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance

Household characteristics

37th: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English

Racial and ethnic minority status

49th

Housing and transportation

21st: multi-unit and mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle, group quarters

The index ranks tracts on how much help their residents would need in a disaster or disease outbreak, using American Community Survey 2018 to 2022 figures. Ranks are within Ohio; a ZIP is the average of its tracts weighted by residents.

Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022, census tracts ranked among Ohio tracts, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI

Community health

Weight and activity

obesity 27.4%, no leisure-time physical activity 15.4%

Chronic conditions

diabetes 8.7%, high blood pressure 28.5%, COPD 4.3%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 8.8%

Habits

current smoking 8.4%, binge drinking 19.6%, short sleep 30.7%

Mind

depression 25.1%, frequent mental distress 14.3%, feeling lonely 33.3%

Access

uninsured under 65 4.5%, yearly checkup 80.6%, dental visit 76.7%

Hardship

any disability 18.9%, food insecurity 6.2%

Heart and lungs

current asthma 10.0%, coronary heart disease 4.7%, stroke 2.2%, arthritis 23.9%

Keeping up

77.2% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 89.5% had a cholesterol check in 5 years

Social needs

housing insecurity 5.7%, no reliable transportation 4.2%, utility shut-off threat 4.3%, lacking emotional support 17.1%

Provider shortage

none for primary care; none for dental; 100% live in an area HRSA designates a mental health shortage area for its low-income residents (score 17 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)

Coverage (Census)

3.4% of residents have no health insurance (3.2% of children); 6% are on Medicaid and 69% have coverage through an employer

Disability (Census)

7.4% of residents report a disability, 21% of those 65 and over

County (County Health Rankings 2025): Franklin County sits in health group 4 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 4 for community conditions. Premature death 9,722 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 985 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 215 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 1,042 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 2,454 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 108.3 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 12.0 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths 7.8 (Ohio 7.0) per 1,000 births; teen births 16.7 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 19.8 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 8.2 (Ohio 7.8) micrograms per cubic metre; at least one community water system in the county had a health-based drinking water violation in 2023. Drug overdoses: 348 deaths in the 12 months ending December 2025 (491 a year earlier, 855 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending April 2021), about 26.2 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide (CDC provisional counts).

Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Franklin County records 457.7 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 6,083 cases a year, with the rate falling 0.4% a year; cancer deaths 149.8 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), falling. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 59.9 (63.6), colorectal 33.9 (38.4), female breast 139.9 (133), prostate 127.2 (120.8), bladder 20 (21.8), leukemia 10.7 (13).

Medicare: 205,918 people in Franklin County were on Medicare in 2025 (15% of residents): 182,149 aged 65 or over and 23,769 younger people with disabilities. 57% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 18% also had Medicaid and 84% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 11% since 2020 (CMS).

Modelled from a national telephone survey and the ZIP's demographics, so these are estimates of what residents would report, not counts of patients; small ZIPs carry wide margins.

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (BRFSS 2023 and 2022, ACS 2019-2023), model-based ZCTA estimates of crude adult prevalence; County Health Rankings 2025 and CDC provisional overdose counts for the county; HRSA shortage area designations weighted to the ZIP; Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (insurance, disability); CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment, county, 2025 · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data

Life expectancy

Ohio's statewide figure for the same years was 77.6; the United States 78.7. Differences of a year or two between neighbouring ZIPs are within the estimates' error; differences of five or more are real and track income, smoking and access to care.

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP), 2010-2015, census tracts weighted by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP

Nearest hospital

1,173 beds · Level II trauma center · 7 general or critical-access hospitals within 10 miles, 14 within 25.

Medicare rating: ★★★★☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 230 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)

Patients' verdict: 76% would definitely recommend it, 71% rated their stay 9 or 10 out of 10 (★★★☆☆ patient-experience rating, 520 surveys).

Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 10% (about the national rate), heart attack 10.9% (about the national rate), pneumonia 13.4% (about the national rate), July 2022 to June 2025; the patient-safety composite for serious complications (July 2022 to June 2024) is about the national value (Medicare).

Community health center: nearest OSU Total Health Care Center Rardin, Columbus, 3.9 mi away; 0 within 3 miles, 40 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.

Veterans: nearest VA site is Columbus, OH Vet Center, Columbus (vtcr), 3.3 mi away; 4 VA sites within 10 miles, 5 within 25.

Providers: 1,754 active health care providers list a practice address in this ZIP: 410 physicians, 218 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, 38 dentists, 229 mental health professionals, 8 pharmacies, 2 urgent care centers, 2 nursing or assisted-living facilities, 10 home health or hospice agencies; most common physician specialties: Neurology (50), Internal Medicine (45), Family Medicine (38) (NPPES registry, August 2026).

Dialysis: nearest Fresenius Medical Care Osuim Kidney Centers-Campus, Columbus, 3.1 mi away, 17 stations, Medicare ★☆☆☆☆ (Fresenius Medical Care); 3 within 5 miles, 28 within 15.

Source: federal HIFLD hospital inventory (via FEMA) with Medicare Care Compare star ratings, emergency-service flags, median emergency department times (measure OP_18b), HCAHPS patient survey results and 30-day death rates and patient-safety composites (Complications and Deaths file; a campus with no record of its own carries its parent hospital's figures, labelled); NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active records by practice ZIP; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center (some listings lag closures and mergers); HRSA health center sites, CMS dialysis facilities (geocoded with the Census geocoder) and the VA facility list · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

Nursing homes

15 certified homes within 5 miles, 55 within 15.

Medicare rating

★★★☆☆ overall; inspections ★★☆☆☆; staffing ★★★☆☆

Beds

66 certified

Ownership

For profit, limited liability company

Penalties

fined $91,350 in 1 federal penalty since 2023, the latest on 2025-09-10 (CMS)

Stars are Medicare's Care Compare ratings; a 1-star home failed inspections or is thinly staffed, and the abuse flag means a citation for harm in the past year or two. Ratings shift every quarter.

Source: Medicare Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files (CMS), geocoded with the Census Bureau; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · CMS Care Compare data

Crime

Violent

10 offenses: 0 murders, 3 rapes, 5 robberies, 2 aggravated assaults (0.3 per 1,000 residents; Ohio 3.2)

Property

306 offenses: 29 burglaries, 233 thefts, 43 vehicle thefts (8.6 per 1,000; Ohio 16.9)

Other

27 simple assaults, 77 vandalism reports, 30 drug offenses, 11 weapons violations

Reporting

12 months of 2024 on file; 35,410 residents served; this department covers the 61% of the ZIP's residents in its territory, the rest fall under others

Trend

violent offenses up 100% from 5 in 2023; property down 6% from 326

Rates cover the whole agency's territory, not this ZIP alone: a city's downtown and its quiet edges share one number. Murders, rapes and assaults are counted once per victim and other offenses once per incident, as the FBI's Crime Data Explorer does; a large department's figures can still fall somewhat short of the Explorer's, which takes in later submissions, and a sheriff's population is only the unincorporated area it serves.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS incident data for Ohio, 2024 (2023 for the trend): Group A offenses per reporting agency (violent = murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault; property = burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson), murders, rapes and assaults counted once per victim; the agency is the police department of the ZIP's largest local government (city, village or township) when it has one of its own, found in the FBI's 2023 and 2024 rosters or the USGS police station inventory, otherwise the sheriff of the ZIP's county; a rate needs at least six months of 2024 on file and is annualized from fewer than 12; the Ohio figures pool the 511 police departments and sheriff's offices with all 12 months on file · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service

Police and post office

3 stations within 3 miles, 16 within 8. Inside this ZIP: Ohio State University Police Division; Upper Arlington Police Department.

Nearest post office: Upper Arlington Post Office, 0.6 mi; 1 inside this ZIP.

Townships without their own department are policed by the county sheriff, whose office may be at the county seat; the state highway patrol covers the roads. The inventory lists stations, not patrol zones. It also misses some departments and still lists some that have closed; the atlas adds the departments that reported at least six months of 2024 crimes to the FBI but had no station in it, and drops the closed and duplicate records it found.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (police stations, post offices), with closed and duplicate records dropped, wrong names corrected and departments it lacks added from OpenStreetMap and the Census Bureau geocoder (September 2026); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

Fire and EMS

4 stations within 3 miles, 38 within 8.

Inside this ZIP: Upper Arlington Fire Division Station 71.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations checked against the cities' station lists, September 2026. Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania stations near the line are included; Kentucky and West Virginia stations across the Ohio River are not. Straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Stations open or close without the inventory always catching up. · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations

Public library

3 libraries within 3 miles, 20 within 8.

Open

about 60 hours a week

Building

60,517 square feet

Upper Arlington Public Library

3 buildings, serves 36K people, 13 visits per resident a year, 1.5M items lent, 1,430 programs, $9.4M annual income

Inside this ZIP: Upper Arlington Public Library.

Museums: 11 inside this ZIP (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Chadwick Arboretum, Hopkins Hall Galley and 8 more); nearest Upper Arlington Historical Society, Upper Arlington, 1.1 mi away; 30 within 5 miles, 89 within 15 (IMLS 2018 directory: museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos).

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey fiscal 2024 (outlet and system files) and Museum Data Files 2018 (museums); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files

Grocery access

Distance

67% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 25% more than 1 mile

Without a car

0% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access; 2% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Poverty

4.5% of residents below the poverty line

SNAP stores

3 supermarkets or superstores and 0 grocery stores inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 3 convenience stores, 1 farmers market, 2 other outlets (dollar, drug and discount stores); nearest supermarket or grocery store Aldi (supermarket), 1.2 mi from the ZIP's center; 18 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)

SNAP households

2% of households received SNAP benefits in the past year (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Setting

100% of residents in urban tracts, across 14 tracts

A "supermarket" here is a large grocery store, supercenter or club; dollar stores and corner groceries do not count, and stores that opened since 2019 are missing from the distance figures; the SNAP store list is current. Rural distance flags mean a long drive, not necessarily hardship.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Access Research Atlas: 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 census tracts, 2019 supermarket list; ERS's name for this file since July 2026), tract values weighted into ZIPs by 2020 census block population; SNAP store counts from USDA Food and Nutrition Service retailer locations, 2026; SNAP and no-vehicle households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS

History

Upper Arlington 61% Columbus 35%

Before the settlers

Upper Arlington's own recorded Native history is thin, and what exists points just south of the modern city rather than to a site inside it. Adena people were building mounds along this stretch of the Scioto by roughly 800 BC; the nearest surviving example is Shrum Mound, a 20-foot conical burial mound on a bluff above the river in what is now Columbus's Campbell Memorial Park, just south of Upper Arlington. It was raised about 2,000 years ago, has never been excavated, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970, under its official listing name, Campbell Mound; the Shrum family, for whom it is popularly known, deeded the mound and the surrounding acre to the Ohio Historical Society in 1928. Franklin County once held an estimated 132 mounds and 28 earthworks, by an early count from the Ohio Historical Society's own curator of archaeology; only a handful survive, Shrum Mound among them. Upper Arlington's city history states that Wyandot people later hunted and, by the early 1700s, farmed this part of the Scioto valley, and that they were displaced after the United States issued Revolutionary War land-bounty grants covering the area around 1800; Wikipedia's account of the city agrees on both points. No source found in this research names a specific Wyandot village, trail, or treaty boundary as lying within Upper Arlington itself — the nearest documented Wyandot association in the immediate area is upriver at Dublin, where John Sells settled in 1808 and where Chief Leatherlips is memorialized. The Scioto's limestone bluffs continue along Upper Arlington's western edge (later dammed to form Griggs Reservoir) and downstream past the old quarry works near present Marble Cliff described in the 1880 county history; high ground of this kind was generally preferred for travel and settlement along central Ohio's rivers, but no specific Native trail or camp is recorded by name inside the city in the sources reviewed. For treaty cessions, other Wyandot and Shawnee villages, and county-wide Adena and Hopewell context, see the Franklin County file.

Peoples named in the record: Adena culture, Wyandot.

• Shrum Mound mound · Campbell Memorial Park, 3141 McKinley Ave., Columbus, just south of Upper Arlington on a bluff above the Scioto River; listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name Campbell Mound · Adena culture, roughly 800 BC - AD 100 source

Franklin County

Franklin County's prehistoric record begins with the Adena, who built conical burial mounds through the Scioto and Olentangy valleys from roughly 800 BC to AD 100. An 1880 county history, citing archaeologist William C. Mills, put the historical count at 132 mounds and 28 earthen enclosures across the county, most since plowed away, dug into or built over. What can still be traced includes Shrum Mound (Campbell Mound) on McKinley Avenue, one of the last intact Adena mounds inside Columbus; Tom Cannon Mound at the confluence of Big and Little Darby creeks; the Toephner Mound, salvage-excavated… more

Ohio before the treaties: peoples, earthworks and cessionsstatewide

Periods

• Paleo-Indian, about 13,000 to 8,000 BC
• Archaic, about 8000 to 800 BC
• Early Woodland / Adena, about 800 BC to AD 100
• Middle Woodland / Hopewell, about 100 BC to AD 500
• Late Woodland, about AD 500 to 1000
• Late Prehistoric / Fort Ancient and Whittlesey, about AD 1000 to 1650
• Protohistoric, the Erie and the Beaver Wars, roughly 1650s
• Historic, 1700s resettlement
• Removal, roughly 1795 to 1843

Nations of the 1700s

Shawnee, Wyandot, Lenape (Delaware), Miami, Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga), Seneca (of Sandusky), Ottawa (Odawa), Erie, Ojibwe (Chippewa) / Potawatomi.

Treaties that ceded Ohio land

• Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785): US commissioners George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee; Wyandot, Delaware (Lenape), Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Odawa (Ottawa).
• Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789): US commissioner Arthur St. Clair (governor, Northwest Territory), with Josiah Harmar and Richard Butler; Haudenosaunee, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot…
• Treaty of Greenville (1795): US commissioner Major General Anthony Wayne; twelve nations of the Western Confederacy — Wyandot, Delaware (Lenape), Shawnee, Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwe (Chippewa),…
• Treaty of Fort Industry (1805): US Indian agent Charles Jouett; Ottawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (Chippewa), Wyandot, Munsee, Delaware (Lenape), and Shawnee.
• Treaty of Detroit (1807): William Hull (governor, Michigan Territory); Ottawa, Ojibwe (Chippewa), Wyandot, and Potawatomi.
• Treaty of Brownstown (1808): William Hull for the US; Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ottawa, and Potawatomi (Council of Three Fires), plus Wyandot and Shawnee.
• Treaty of Fort Meigs / Maumee Rapids (1817): US commissioners Lewis Cass and Duncan McArthur; Wyandot, Seneca, Delaware (Lenape), Shawnee, Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwe (Chippewa).
• Treaty of St. Marys (1818): US commissioners Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke; across the six agreements: Wyandot/Seneca/Shawnee/Ottawa (September 17), Wyandot again (Sept…
• Treaty of Lewistown and Treaty of Wapakoneta (1831)
• Treaty of Upper Sandusky / Wyandot (1842): The Wyandot Nation and the US government. I could not confirm the US commissioner's name from any source I opened — flagged gap.

Earthworks that survive

• Newark Earthworks (overall complex) (Licking County), Hopewell
• Great Circle Earthworks (Licking County), Hopewell
• Octagon Earthworks (Licking County), Hopewell
• Serpent Mound (Adams County), Disputed
• Fort Ancient (Warren County), Hopewell
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park (Ross County), Hopewell
• Miamisburg Mound (Montgomery County), Adena
• Shrum Mound (Franklin County), Adena
• Fort Hill (Highland County), Hopewell
• Marietta Earthworks (Washington County), Hopewell
• Flint Ridge (Straddles the Licking–Muskingum county line; the Ohio History Connection's preserve itself sits in Hopewell Township, Licking County, about 3 miles north of Brownsville. County), Used by essentially every prehistoric culture in the region across more than 10,000 years, with especially intensive use by the Hopewell

Statewide notes researched from archive.org, delawaretribe.org, en.wikipedia.org and others; every entry carries its own links in the research file.

How Upper Arlington began

Upper Arlington began on Christmas Eve 1913, when Columbus real-estate brothers King and Ben Thompson agreed to buy 840 acres of James T. Miller's farm on the Scioto River and lay it out as a curving, restricted 'garden suburb' modeled on Kansas City's Country Club District. The land had passed through a line of Perry Township owners — Backus, McCoy, Smith, and finally Miller — after an 1800 federal land-bounty grant, and it lies a short distance north of Shrum Mound, a roughly 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound that is the oldest recorded human trace in the immediate area. Development had barely started when, in 1916, the U.S. Army and Ohio National Guard turned the still-empty tract into Camp Willis, a mobilization camp for the Mexican border crisis. By 1917 the subdivision was known as Upper Arlington, after Arlington, its neighbor to the south (renamed Marble Cliff in 1901); it incorporated as a village on March 20, 1918, and became a city on February 8, 1941. It is now a fully built-out, largely residential Columbus suburb of roughly 36,800 people, known for its curvilinear streets and its Old Arlington Historic District.

Settled 1913, platted 1914, incorporated 1918; by King Gibson Thompson and Benjamin Sells Thompson (King and Ben Thompson). source

The name. The Thompsons first marketed their new subdivision as the 'Country Club District.' By 1917 it was known instead as 'Upper Arlington' — 'Arlington' for the neighboring village immediately to its south on the Scioto River, which had briefly carried that name before incorporating in 1901 as Marble Cliff, and 'Upper' for Upper Arlington's position north/upstream of it. source

Timeline15

• c. 800 BC - AD 100Adena people build the conical burial mound known today as Shrum Mound, on a Scioto River bluff just south of the future Upper Arlington. source
• 1800The United States issues Revolutionary War land-bounty grants covering this stretch of the Scioto valley to Elijah Backus, Jonathan Dayton, and Andrew Marker; Wyandot residents are displaced from the area in the years that follow. source
• 1818John McCoy buys 1,157 acres of the Backus tract along the Scioto River; the land passes to Benjamin Smith and then, in 1859, to Dr. Henry Miller, whose family farms it until 1913. source
• 1905Griggs Dam is completed on the Scioto River, forming Griggs Reservoir along what becomes Upper Arlington's western edge and giving Columbus its first major drinking-water reservoir; a separate Columbus water-system timeline instead dates the reservoir and its Scioto River Purification Plant to 1908. source
• 1913On Christmas Eve, King Gibson Thompson and his brother Ben Thompson agree to buy 840 acres of James T. Miller's farm, the land that becomes Upper Arlington. source
• 1914The Thompsons form the King Thompson Company and lay the farm out in roughly 2,500 lots along curving streets, marketing it first as the 'Country Club District.' source
• 1914In August, grading begins on Roxbury Road, Upper Arlington's first street. source
• 1916The undeveloped part of the new subdivision becomes Camp Willis, a mobilization camp where the Ohio National Guard trains before deploying to the Mexican border; it is named for Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis. source
• 1917By this year the subdivision is known as 'Upper Arlington,' after Arlington, its neighbor to the south (renamed Marble Cliff in 1901); a first, informal school also opens in the basement of the Thompson home with twelve pupils. source
• 1918On March 20, Upper Arlington incorporates as a village, population about 200. source
• 1918In October, Upper Arlington's first public school opens with fifty-two students and four teachers, including Mary Boyer, who had been running a private kindergarten for the community. source
• 1928Minnie R. Shrum deeds Shrum Mound and the surrounding acre to the Ohio Historical Society; the mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Campbell Mound on November 10, 1970. source
• 1941Upper Arlington becomes a city on February 8. source
• 1985In October, the 536-acre Old Arlington neighborhood, with about 1,120 buildings, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Upper Arlington Historic District. source
• 2012The Frederick G. Kilgour House at 1415 Kirkley Road — home of the Upper Arlington resident who founded OCLC, the library consortium behind WorldCat — is added to the National Register of Historic Places. source

Stories

The Thompson Brothers Build a Garden Suburb

King Gibson Thompson and his younger brother, Benjamin Sells Thompson, grew up in Georgetown, Ohio, on the Ohio River, and both attended Ohio State University before going into real estate together in Columbus. By 1913 they had a specific model in mind: Kansas City's Country Club District, an upscale, curving, deed-restricted development that was reshaping how American suburbs were built. On Christmas Eve 1913 they agreed to buy 840 acres of James T. Miller's farm, land roughly bounded today by Fifth Avenue, Riverside Drive, Lane Avenue, and Northwest Boulevard, with Miller's own physician, Dr. J. A. Van Fossen, helping broker the sale. The King Thompson Company, formed in 1914, laid the farm out in about 2,500 lots along winding streets rather than a grid, and crews graded Roxbury Road, the first of them, in August of that year. By 1915 six houses stood on the new streets, and early in 1916 King and Ben each finished building their own homes overlooking Miller Park. The brothers ran the development personally for decades afterward, controlling architecture and landscaping street by street, a level of hands-on control still visible in Old Arlington's uniform, mature streetscape today. source

Camp Willis, 1916

The Thompsons' new suburb had produced barely half a dozen houses when, in 1916, its still-mostly-empty land was taken over for a very different purpose. The Ohio National Guard mobilized that year for duty on the Mexican border, and the open ground of the young Upper Arlington subdivision, between roughly Fifth Avenue and Lane Avenue, was chosen as a mustering and training ground. The resulting camp was named Camp Willis, after Ohio's sitting governor, Frank B. Willis. Guardsmen drilled, ate out of mess kits, and had their artillery batteries photographed on ground that, within a few years, would be residential streets and yards. The camp was gone well before Upper Arlington incorporated as a village in 1918, but it left a lasting mark on local memory: a boulder marker on Arlington Avenue near Tremont Road, close to where Jones Middle School now stands, and Upper Arlington's present-day Veterans Plaza both commemorate the site. source

Shrum Mound, Just South of the City

Long before any farm or suburb, Adena people were raising burial mounds along the Scioto River valley, and the best-preserved example near Upper Arlington still stands just south of the city, on a bluff above the river in what is now Columbus's Campbell Memorial Park. Built roughly 2,000 years ago, the mound is about 20 feet high and 100 feet across, and it has never been excavated, so no one knows what, if anything, remains inside it. It is popularly called Shrum Mound for the family that owned the surrounding land in the early twentieth century: in 1928 Minnie R. Shrum deeded the mound and an acre around it to the Ohio Historical Society, which dedicated the site as a park the following year and still manages it as a public site today. It was formally added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970, under the listing name Campbell Mound, after the park itself, which is named for former Ohio governor James E. Campbell. Franklin County once held well over a hundred mounds and dozens of earthworks, by one early count from the Ohio Historical Society's own curator of archaeology; nearly all have since been leveled by farming and development, which makes Shrum Mound one of only a handful that survive to be seen today. source

Farms on the Scioto Before the Suburb

Upper Arlington's ground has a documented owner list stretching back to 1800, when the United States issued Revolutionary War land-bounty grants covering this stretch of the Scioto valley to Elijah Backus, Jonathan Dayton, and Andrew Marker. In 1818, John McCoy bought 1,157 acres of the Backus tract; the land later passed to Benjamin Smith and then, in 1859, to Dr. Henry Miller, whose family farmed it until his son James sold 840 acres of it to King and Ben Thompson in 1913. A few miles upriver, the Scioto valley's most prominent early landowner was John Sells, who settled at Dublin on the river's west bank in 1808; his daughter, Matilda Sells, married Samuel S. Davis of Perry Township in 1825, and the stone house Davis built that year on the Scioto's east bank, about a mile south of the Dublin bridge, still stands today and is separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Perry Township's 1880 county history records this same stretch of river bluffs as home to a stone quarry and to the old Backus and McCoy mills, later called the Marble Cliff mills, and notes, in the language of the period, that the cliffs 'abounded in rattlesnakes at an early day.' None of this farm-and-mill landscape survives inside Upper Arlington itself, but it is the ground the Thompson brothers bought in 1913. source

Old Arlington Becomes a Historic District

By the early 1980s, the Thompsons' original curving streets and Tudor and Colonial Revival houses had become historic in their own right, and in 1983 the trustees of the Upper Arlington Historical Society began exploring a National Register nomination for the old subdivision. Volunteers spent roughly a year and a half inventorying and photographing buildings across the original tract before the nomination was complete. In October 1985 the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Upper Arlington Historic District, a 536-acre area encompassing about 1,120 buildings, more than 900 of them counted as contributing to its historic character. The nomination recognized it as one of the Columbus area's first planned communities of its kind, organized around parks, a school, a civic center, and shopping facilities rather than a plain street grid, at a time when Columbus itself had fewer than 250,000 people. Stone entrance piers, including the original one at Fifth Avenue and Cambridge Boulevard that already appears in 1918 photographs of the subdivision's entrance, still mark the district today. source

Not found: Three NRHP listings in the batch's zip-matched hint list are not Upper Arlington sites and are excluded here: Pataskala Presbyterian Church and Pataskala United Methodist Church are in Pataskala, Licking County, about 25 miles east (confirmed via their own Wikipedia/NRHP entries), and the Bank Block Building is a real Franklin County landmark but sits at 1255-1293 Grandview Ave. in Grandview Heights, a separate city that merely shares the 43212 zip code with a slice of Upper Arlington. The five Benjamin/David Sells NRHP buildings in the same hint list also turned out not to be in Upper Arlington: their NRHP records place the Benjamin Sells House, both barns, and the wash house at 4586 Hayden Run Road in Washington Township, and the McCracken-Sells House at 3983 Dublin Road (Wikipedia's finding aid lists it under Mifflin Township, which does not border Dublin Road and looks like an error in that table) — all several miles from Upper Arlington. I could not find a sourced link between these specific structures and the Miller farm the Thompson brothers bought, though the Sells family is genuinely tied to this stretch of the Scioto valley: John Sells settled at Dublin in 1808, and his daughter Matilda Sells married Samuel Davis of Perry Township in 1825. The GNIS historical name 'Highway' in zip 43221, shared verbatim with neighboring Hilliard's hint list, could not be verified as a real lost place name; the USGS GNIS domestic-names search tool did not return usable results in the time available, and the name's generic wording and duplication across two cities' files suggests a database artifact rather than a genuine post office, mill, or lost village name. Sources also disagree on the Griggs Reservoir completion date (1905 per Wikipedia's Griggs Reservoir article versus 1908 per Columbus's water-system timeline); both are given above. I could not retrieve the full NRHP nomination-form text (only index/summary data) for the Kilgour House, the McCracken-Sells House, or the Benjamin Sells House group, so architectural and biographical detail on those individual buildings beyond what is given here is unverified. Beyond Shrum Mound, no source found names a specific Wyandot village, trail, or treaty line inside Upper Arlington itself; the Franklin County file should be checked for that county-wide detail. (confidence high)

Franklin County

Franklin County was created by the Ohio General Assembly on April 30, 1803, out of Ross County, and named for Benjamin Franklin. Its first town, Franklinton, was platted in 1797 by surveyor Lucas Sullivant at the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, ground the Wyandot held as their principal territory in the northern Scioto valley and that Mingo, Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware) people also lived on, hunted and traveled through, in the years after the Treaty of Greenville (1795) opened the country to American survey. The county seat moved from Franklinton to the newly platted state capital, Columbus, in 1824, and the county grew up around a feeder canal, the National Road, the railroads, Camp Chase, Ohio State University and, after 1953, a water-and-sewer annexation policy that pulled dozens of townships and suburbs into the city. Floods bookend much of its written history, from the 1798 flood that drove Franklinton's founders to higher ground to the March 1913 flood that killed about 93 people in that same low neighborhood. Today Franklin County, anchored by Columbus, is Ohio's most populous county.

Settled 1797 (Franklinton, the county's first settlement, platted by Lucas Sullivant), incorporated 1803-04-30; by Ohio General Assembly, organized out of Ross County. source

The name. Franklin County was named for Benjamin Franklin, following a pattern common among early Ohio counties of honoring Revolutionary-era statesmen. Lucas Sullivant, an admirer of Franklin, had already named the county's first town, Franklinton, for him in 1797, six years before the county itself was organized and took the same name.

The county seat. Franklinton was the county seat from 1803 until 1824. The legislature had meanwhile chosen an undeveloped site on the 'High Banks' opposite Franklinton, over competing offers from Franklinton, Dublin, Worthington and Delaware, as the new state capital on February 14, 1812; the resulting town of Columbus was incorporated as a borough on February 10, 1816, the year state government moved in, chartered as a city on March 3, 1834, and formally took over as county seat in 1824.

Timeline24

• 1797Surveyor Lucas Sullivant plats Franklinton on the west bank of the Scioto at its junction with the Olentangy, the first permanent non-Native settlement in what becomes the county. source
• 1798A flood destroys Franklinton's original plat; Sullivant rebuilds the town on higher ground and offers free lots on Gift Street to draw settlers back. source
• 1803The Scioto Company, led by James Kilbourne, settles Worthington on the Whetstone (Olentangy) River. source
• 1803-04-30The Ohio General Assembly creates Franklin County out of Ross County, with Franklinton as county seat. source
• 1810-06-01Wyandot chief Leatherlips is executed by fellow Wyandot near present-day Dublin on a charge of witchcraft. source
• 1812-02-14The Ohio legislature picks the undeveloped 'High Banks' site opposite Franklinton, over Franklinton, Dublin, Worthington and Delaware, as the new state capital, to be named Columbus. source
• 1813-06-21Harrison and Wyandot chief Tarhe meet in council at Franklinton; Wyandot, Shawnee, Delaware and Seneca representatives pledge to stay at peace for the rest of the War of 1812. source
• 1816-02-10Columbus is incorporated as a borough as Ohio's state government moves there from Chillicothe. source
• 1824The county seat formally moves from Franklinton to Columbus. source
• 1831-09The Columbus Feeder Canal, under construction since 1827, links the city to the Ohio & Erie Canal at Lockbourne. source
• 1833The National Road reaches Columbus from the east; a cholera outbreak that summer kills about 100 residents. source
• 1834-03-03Columbus is chartered as a city, population about 3,500, the same year the Ohio Penitentiary opens on the north side. source
• 1837 or 1859Columbus annexes Franklinton (Wikipedia's Columbus, Ohio article gives 1837; its Franklinton article gives 1859; both are cited here as the date is disputed between sources). source
• 1843-07-12The main body of the Wyandot leave Ohio from Upper Sandusky for Kansas, the last organized Native nation to be removed from the state. source
• 1849A second cholera epidemic prompts the opening of Green Lawn Cemetery. source
• 1850The Columbus & Xenia Railroad, the county's first, reaches the city. source
• 1852Ohio's original 1816 state house, built partly of brick fired from the clay of a leveled Native mound, burns down. source
• 1857-01-07The current limestone Ohio Statehouse, under construction since 1839, opens to the public; the building is completed in 1861. source
• 1861Camp Chase opens west of Franklinton as a Union training camp; it later becomes a major Confederate prisoner-of-war camp for the rest of the Civil War. source
• 1870The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University, is chartered on farmland at the north edge of Columbus under the federal Morrill Act. source
• 1913-03-25A levee failure floods the Scioto through Franklinton, killing about 93 people and destroying or damaging thousands of homes. source
• 1930-04-21A fire at the Ohio Penitentiary kills 322 inmates, one of the deadliest prison fires in North American history. source
• 1953-1954Mayor Maynard Sensenbrenner ties new water and sewer hookups to annexation, driving Columbus's growth from roughly 40 to more than 200 square miles over the following decades. source
• 1999Michael Coleman is elected Columbus's first African American mayor. source

County stories

The Mound on Mound Street

When surveyor Joel Wright laid out Columbus in 1812, High Street ran north from Franklinton until it hit an ancient burial mound, and the street simply bent around it. Traffic grew heavy enough by the 1830s that the city leveled the mound, and workers found human bones and a carved stone owl pipe that passed into antiquarian Joseph Sullivant's collection. The mound's clay went into brick, some fired for the first county courthouse in Franklinton and more for Ohio's original 1816 state house, a building that itself burned down in 1852. Columbus writer Thomas Backus, publishing as 'Fabius,' marked the mound's demolition with a newspaper poem pleading, 'Spare! oh spare, the buried brave.' Only the street name survives at the corner of Mound and High today. source

Tarhe's Peace at Franklinton

By the spring of 1813 the War of 1812 had central Ohio's settlers in what one county history called 'feverish anxiety,' fearing the Native nations still to the north and west would join the British side. On June 21, 1813, General William Henry Harrison called a council on Lucas Sullivant's own grounds at Franklinton, and about fifty Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware) and Seneca representatives came to hear him. The Wyandot sachem Tarhe, known as the Crane, rose after Harrison's speech and took the general's hand, and the other delegations followed; settlers, by one account written decades later, answered with 'jubilant shouts' and tears of relief. The agreement did not commit the tribes to fight for the United States, only to stay neutral and keep their families within the settlements, but it lifted Franklinton's standing fear of attack for the rest of the war. Tarhe, already elderly and a signer of the Treaty of Greenville eighteen years before, would be dead within two years; Harrison would be President within thirty. source

The Execution of Leatherlips

Leatherlips, a Wyandot chief whose name in his own language was rendered Shateyaronyah, signed the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 and spent the years after urging cooperation with American settlers, even selling land to William Henry Harrison. That accommodation put him at odds with the resistance movement building around the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, and in spring 1810 a Wyandot council convicted him of witchcraft, a charge later historians generally read as cover for a political execution. Six Wyandot found him encamped on the Scioto about twelve miles above Franklinton, near present-day Dublin; nearby settlers, the Sells brothers, offered a horse and roughly $300 in gold for his life, but the delegation refused. On June 1, 1810, Leatherlips dressed in his finest clothes, painted his face, ate a last meal and walked to a grave already dug for him, singing his death song in Wyandot, and was killed with a tomahawk after two rounds of prayer. The Wyandot Club of Columbus raised a stone marker over the grave in 1889, and in 1990 the Dublin Arts Council dedicated a twelve-foot limestone portrait bust by sculptor Ralph Helmick on the bluff above the river, in Dublin's Scioto Park. source

A River Twice Misnamed

The stream that runs past Worthington and through Columbus to the Scioto carried a Lenape (Delaware) name, recorded by early travelers as keenhongsheconsepung, meaning roughly 'sharp tool river,' for the shale settlers found along its banks and used as whetstones; English speakers simply translated it as the Whetstone River. In 1833 the Ohio General Assembly, trying to restore Native names to the state's waterways, renamed it Olentangy, a Delaware word for 'river of the red face paint' -- except that name properly belonged to a different stream, Big Darby Creek, and the legislature's mix-up simply stuck. The Scioto, which the Whetstone/Olentangy joins at the site of old Franklinton, keeps its own Native name intact: a Wyandot word for deer, fitting for a valley early travelers described as thick with game. Parts of Marion County, at the river's north end, still call it the Whetstone today, a reminder the 1833 renaming never fully took. source

Camp Chase: Training Ground and Prison

Ohio mustered its Civil War volunteers beginning in May 1861 at a camp on the Hilltop west of Franklinton, named Camp Chase for former governor and Treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase. Over the war's four years as many as 150,000 Union soldiers passed through on their way to the front, but the camp is remembered chiefly for what it became: a prison stockade that by February 1865 held more than 9,400 Confederate soldiers, sailors and political prisoners on a site barely a square mile in size. Conditions were hard rather than deliberately cruel, but overcrowding brought a smallpox outbreak in the winter of 1863-64 that killed hundreds, and disease filled the camp's cemetery faster than combat ever did. More than 2,200 Confederate dead from Camp Chase and the nearby Camp Dennison hospital are buried in the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery on Sullivant Avenue, the only piece of the camp the army did not dismantle after closing it in 1865. source

Water for Annexation

For four decades after 1910, Columbus barely grew, adding fewer than twenty square miles while its postwar population boomed and its water system strained to keep pace. Maynard 'Jack' Sensenbrenner, elected mayor in an upset in 1953, turned the shortage into policy: in early 1954 the city barred new water and sewer connections outside its limits, so any suburb or township wanting city water first had to agree to annexation. He said as much publicly, telling residents in October 1953 he was 'bitterly opposed to selling water to any outside community until Columbus' own needs are met.' The city added nearly fifty square miles in the 1950s alone, against half a square mile in the 1940s, and grew from roughly forty square miles to more than two hundred by 1980, a policy credited with keeping Columbus from being boxed in by suburbs the way Cleveland and Cincinnati were. It also explains why Franklin County today holds dozens of small municipalities and townships whose boundaries trace back to whether and when each needed Columbus's water. source

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ohiohistory.org · upperarlingtonoh.gov · ohiogenealogyexpress.com · genealogybug.net · commons.wikimedia.org · uahistory.org · upperarlingtonneighborhood.org · devcolumbusneighborhoods.osu.edu · columbusneighborhoods.org · dublinohiohistory.org · archive.org · ia600702.us.archive.org · npgallery.nps.gov and 6 more. Researched 2026-09-10 by sonnet; every entry above links its own page. · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)

Historic places

• Davis, Samuel, House (building)
• Kilgour, Frederick G., House (building)
• McCracken-Sells House (building)
• and 6 more

Place names (USGS): 3 named communities (Seagrave, Eastcleft, Highway (historical)); 2 named streams end here (Hayden Run, Litchford Run); 1 named lake or reservoir (Ohio State University Golf Course Lake); 1 canal feature. Federal maps carry these names; the communities include hamlets and crossroads that never incorporated.

Listing recognizes significance and brings review of federally funded projects; it does not restrict a private owner. Historic districts count once, at their center.

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places spatial data (point file); listings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary · National Register data · USGS GNIS

School district

• Upper Arlington City63% of residentsCity school district
• Hilliard City24% of residentsCity school district
• Columbus City13% of residentsCity school district

ZIP codes and school districts do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

7 public schools inside this ZIP: Barrington Road Elementary School (4 stars); Cranbrook Elementary School (3.5 stars); Jones Middle School (5 stars); Tremont Elementary School (4.5 stars) and 3 more. Nearest to the population center: Wickliffe Elementary School (3.5 stars), 0.2 mi; 4 within a mile, 22 within 3.

2 private schools inside this ZIP with 196 students in kindergarten through 12th grade (1 religious): St. Agatha School (185 students, Catholic); The Mary Evans Child Development Center (11 students, nonsectarian) (NCES Private School Survey 2023-24; the survey's student counts, here and per school, exclude prekindergarten).

Enrolled here: 4,896 students attend the 6 public schools inside this ZIP with 2023-24 enrollment on file; 18.2 students per teacher. 7% of the 4,616 students at the 5 schools reporting it qualify for free or reduced-price meals (1 did not report); 1 school use the community eligibility provision, which counts every student. 1 online school with 57 students statewide lists an office here. (NCES)

Enrollment: 6,501 residents attend kindergarten through 12th grade, 10% of them at private schools; 1,870 are in college or graduate school (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Money, fiscal 2023: Upper Arlington City took in $142 million, 10% from the state, 86% local and 4% federal, and spent $17,518 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 6,455 students, 65% of it on instruction; capital outlay $12.1 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).

Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 2.2% of Upper Arlington City's school-age children below the poverty line (171 of 7,861 aged 5 to 17; SAIPE).

Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP, 2014 edition, via ODOT) · 2020 census blocks · public school locations from NCES EDGE, 2024-25 · enrollment and meals from the NCES Common Core of Data 2023-24 · private schools from the NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 · district finances from the Census F-33 survey, fiscal 2023 · child poverty from Census SAIPE 2024 · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)

School report card

Components

achievement 5 stars, progress 5 stars, gap closing 5 stars, early literacy 4 stars, graduation 5 stars, college and career readiness 3 stars

Achievement

performance index 94.4% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 103.6, 102.3 the year before)

Graduation

96.9% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 72.1% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness

Spending

$15,295 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide

Teachers

average salary $93,615, 15 years of experience, 83% with a master's degree, 12.7% in their first years of teaching

Enrollment

6,631 students in 2024-25

Three stars means the district meets state standards, five that it significantly exceeds them, one that it needs significant support. Achievement stars follow family income closely; the progress component (growth from year to year) is the fairer measure of teaching. Charter and private schools are not in the district figures.

Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024-2025 School Report Cards (district overview, achievement, expenditures per pupil and educator files), for the district where most of this ZIP's residents live · Ohio school report cards

Colleges

Aveda Institute-Columbus is a for-profit career school with 434 students over the 2023-24 year.

21 institutions within 10 miles, 31 within 25.

Next nearest: Ohio State University-Main Campus (4.2 mi).

Universities, community colleges, career schools and private colleges all count; branch campuses appear only where IPEDS lists them separately. Graduation rates follow first-time full-time students for 150% of normal time.

Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 12-month enrollment 2023-24, tuition and fees 2023-24 and graduation rates for the 2017 entering cohort at four-year institutions and the 2020 cohort at two-year ones; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · NCES IPEDS

Local government

• Upper Arlington (city)61% of residentsCity
• Columbus (city)35% of residentsCity
• Norwich Township, Franklin County3% of residentsTownship

ZIP codes and municipal and township boundaries do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

Ohio EPA grants 2025: 1 grant worth $170,496 went to Ohio State University in this ZIP (1 campus recycling).

Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries · 2020 census blocks · Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements map service) · Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)

Who represents this ZIP

U.S. Senate: Bernie Moreno (R), Jon Husted (R)

• Joyce Beatty DU.S. House OH-3 · 67%Columbus · since 2013 · site
• Mike Carey R OH-15 · 33%Columbus · since 2021 · site
• William P. DeMora DOhio Senate 25 · 72%Columbus · since 2022 · site
• Beth Liston D 16 · 28%Dublin · since 2024 · site
• C. Allison Russo DOhio House 7 · 71%Upper Arlington · since 2018 · site
• Crystal Lett D 11 · 28%Hilliard · since 2024 · site

District lines cut through this ZIP, so more than one member serves its residents; the share is by 2020 population.

Source: ODOT district boundaries · members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS