Living in Westerville, OH: Homes, Rent, and Who to Call
Westerville is its own city in Franklin and Delaware counties, home to Otterbein University and the Uptown district on State Street. Report problems at a Westerville address to Westerville, not Columbus 311.
A little more than 7 in 10 homes here are lived in by their owners. Homes cost much more than in most of Columbus, but rent is about the same.
Live in Westerville? Report problems to Westerville, not Columbus 311.
Westerville runs its own code enforcement. Its inspectors handle rats, no heat, mold, tall grass, and junk cars inside its limits, and its office holds the full record. The Columbus records on this page cover only the overlap.
What the homes are like in Westerville
Westerville is a city of homeowners. A little more than 7 in 10 homes here are lived in by their owners, against about 4 in 10 across Columbus.
| Westerville | Columbus | |
|---|---|---|
| Rented | 28% | 56% |
| Single-family houses | 76% | 55% |
| Rentals that are houses | 27% | 27% |
| Built before 1940 | 7% | 12% |
| Built before 1980 | 46% | 50% |
| Renters paying 30%+ of income | 51% | 47% |
Census 2020–2024 medians in 2024 dollars: what people already living here paid or think their home is worth. Today’s listings usually ask more. Use these to compare places, not to budget.
All housing numbers for Westerville
From the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates, for all of Westerville. These are survey estimates, rounded. Small areas have wider margins of error. * Low confidence: the survey’s margin of error is wide for this number here.
| Measure | Westerville | Columbus |
|---|---|---|
| Homes | ||
| Homes (housing units) | 15,910 | 425,180 |
| Rented | 28% | 56% |
| Lived in by the owner | 72% | 44% |
| Empty (any reason) | 4% | 8% |
| Empty and for rent | 1%* | 2% |
| Empty and for sale | 0%* | 0% |
| Empty for other reasons | 1%* | 4% |
| Buildings | ||
| Single-family houses | 76% | 55% |
| 2 to 4 units | 8% | 13% |
| 5 to 19 units | 6% | 20% |
| 20 or more units | 10% | 12% |
| Mobile homes and other | 0%* | 1% |
| Rentals that are single-family houses | 27% | 27% |
| Age | ||
| Built before 1940 | 7% | 12% |
| Built 1940 to 1979 | 40% | 38% |
| Built 1980 to 1999 | 33% | 26% |
| Built 2000 or later | 20% | 24% |
| Typical year built | 1982 | 1980 |
| Costs | ||
| Typical rent, with utilities | $1,350 | $1,300 |
| Renters spending 30%+ of income on rent | 51% | 47% |
| Renters spending 50%+ of income on rent | 21% | 23% |
| Typical home value (owner estimate) | $370,000 | $250,000 |
| Who stays | ||
| Renters who moved in 2020 or later | 42% | 50% |
| Owners who moved in before 2010 | 51% | 43% |
| Conditions | ||
| More than one person per room | 1%* | 3% |
| Missing complete plumbing | 0%* | 1% |
| Missing a complete kitchen | 3% | 2% |
What neighbors report in Westerville
From 39 City of Columbus records inside Westerville’s boundary, January 2025 to September 2026.
See every complaint in Columbus on the map
About 81,000 complaints across the city, including 39 in Westerville, plotted block by block. Filter by problem, search any address, or zoom in to any street.
Common questions about Westerville
What problems show up most in Westerville's city records?
What little data there is skews toward abandoned vehicle complaints, but the sample is far too small to represent Westerville.
What is the housing like in Westerville?
Westerville is mostly single-family houses, most of them lived in by their owners. A little more than 7 in 10 homes in Westerville are lived in by their owners, against about 4 in 10 across Columbus. In the 2020–2024 Census survey, the typical renter paid about $1,350 a month with utilities, against $1,300 across Columbus, and the typical owner valued their home at about $370,000, against $250,000. Those are what current residents paid or estimated over five years, not what listings ask today.
Are the problems concentrated in a few buildings?
A small number of properties account for much of what gets reported here. The ten most-reported addresses hold about 74% of all reports. For any specific address, run a Block Report to see what has been reported there and next door.
Are reports in Westerville going up or down?
The city changed how some complaints are logged partway through this window, so a year-over-year verdict would mislead. The chart shows the raw monthly counts.
Why does Westerville show so few records?
Westerville is a separate municipality with its own code enforcement department. The City of Columbus dataset only contains boundary and overlap records for it. Contact the Westerville city offices for complete local records.
How serious are the reports in Westerville?
10% of the reports for Westerville are rated severe or critical, such as sewage, no heat, mold, or an active infestation, against 16% citywide. Fewer of the reports here are serious than in Columbus overall. The rest are moderate or low, like tall grass, trash, or a junk car.
Want Westerville's actual code-enforcement records?
Westerville runs its own enforcement, so the City of Columbus dataset only has overlap records. Its own office holds the full picture.
Browse all Columbus neighborhoods →Know Your Block is a free public tool that shows what Columbus residents report to the city's code enforcement office: rats, mold, no heat, sewage backups, drug activity, noise, vacant buildings, and the other property and quality-of-life problems that a listing or a tour will not tell you about — the stuff Zillow and Apartments.com don't show. The live map plots every report in the city, and a Block Report checks one address, the building it sits in, and the block around it. This page and the other neighborhood pages are computed from the same records, so the numbers here match what you would find on the map. There is no account and no fee. More about the project.
Data comes from official City of Columbus code enforcement records (Accela portal + ArcGIS REST API). Comparison figures are computed against the full citywide dataset; "above the citywide rate" means a category's share of complaints in this neighborhood is higher than its share citywide. Complaints are reports filed with the city — they may be unverified, resolved, or in dispute. Categories are assigned by automated keyword matching and may include mismatches. Individual property records are surfaced through search, not listed on this page. Housing figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), for all of Westerville. They describe homes, not people, and they are survey estimates with margins of error.