60,729
Total complaints
Columbus neighborhoods.
Code-enforcement complaints broken down by neighborhood, greater area, and surrounding suburb — showing where rats, mold, sewage, drugs, noise and other issues concentrate, with the ability to drill into any address.
33
Neighborhoods tracked
7
Greater areas
15%
Severe or critical
Where each issue is most concentrated
These are the places where a problem shows up far more than usual. Each number compares a neighborhood to a typical Columbus neighborhood — so "8×" means complaints come in about eight times as often there. It points to where a problem is unusually common, not just where the most complaints get filed.
How far above a typical neighborhood
Slightly above
Above average
Well above
Far above
NoiseFar above average
7.9×
Downtown (core) →
Noise reports here are filed about 7.9× as often as in a typical Columbus neighborhood.
BedbugsFar above average
5.6×
Downtown (core) →
Bedbugs reports here are filed about 5.6× as often as in a typical Columbus neighborhood.
Violence / WeaponsFar above average
4.1×
Milo-Grogan →
Violence / Weapons reports here are filed about 4.1× as often as in a typical Columbus neighborhood.
Drugs
Mold / Water Damage
Encampments
HVAC / Utilities
Roaches
Sewage
Hoarding
Rats
Vacant Structures
Greater Columbus areas
Larger regions made up of several smaller areas grouped together. Each card shows the total number of complaints, how many were severe, and the one issue that stands out most there.
Linden
3 parts6,155
Reports
18%
Severe
Stands out for
Violence / Weapons
Hilltop
2 parts7,498
Reports
13%
Severe
Stands out for
Drugs
West Side
4 parts4,469
Reports
16%
Severe
Stands out for
Drugs
Northland
6 parts7,064
Reports
14%
Severe
Stands out for
Hoarding
Downtown
7 parts10,099
Reports
14%
Severe
Stands out for
Noise
East Side
3 parts6,070
Reports
18%
Severe
Stands out for
HVAC / Utilities
South Side
4 parts5,379
Reports
16%
Severe
Stands out for
Encampment
Columbus neighborhoods
Smaller neighborhoods that aren't part of a larger region. Same details — total complaints, how many were severe, and the issue that stands out most.
Separate municipalities
NB
These surrounding cities and suburbs run their own code enforcement. Columbus's dataset only contains boundary and overlap records for them — so these counts are overlap-record counts, not a measure of each municipality's real enforcement activity.
Source & methodHow to read these numbers
- Data comes from official City of Columbus records, pulled from the Accela permitting portal and the city's ArcGIS REST API.
- The meter and "× more than usual" figures compare each neighborhood to the citywide average across all complaints.
- Complaints are reports, not verified facts. Individual records may be unverified, already resolved, or disputed.
- Categories are assigned by automated keyword matching and may occasionally include mismatches.