Columbus

City Commute Profile

Columbus, OH

Where Columbus’s 429,857 resident workers go each day — 52.4% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Dublin.

OhioLODES 2023 data
69
Commute Score

69 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Columbus at a glance
Employed Residents
429,857
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
9.8mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
52.4%
Share working within the area
Work from home
18.3%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Dublin
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Columbus proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Columbus commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Columbus

429,857 commutes, one dot at a time

Columbus

Where 429,857 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Columbus, by worker count.

1Columbus0.0 mi225,390
2Dublin11.7 mi17,462
3Westerville9.8 mi11,863
4Grove City9.6 mi9,161
5Hilliard9.2 mi7,954
6Gahanna6.7 mi7,849
7New Albany11.6 mi7,760
8Worthington7.1 mi6,329

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Columbus.

1Columbus0.0 mi225,390
2Dublin11.7 mi10,851
3Upper Arlington4.7 mi10,009
4Grove City9.6 mi10,001
5Hilliard9.2 mi9,304
6Gahanna6.7 mi9,229
7Reynoldsburg10.4 mi9,085
8Westerville9.8 mi8,891

Top industries

The sectors that employ Columbus’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance13.2%
EDEducational Services12.4%
RTRetail Trade9.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services8.1%
FIFinance and Insurance7.2%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services6.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.6%
MGManagement of Companies and Enterprises5.7%
TRTransportation and Warehousing5.2%

Columbus city profile

Who lives in Columbus — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
914,802
Median age
33.2yrs
Median household income
$66,082
Median home value
$252,900
Median gross rent
$1,295/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
38.2%
Poverty rate
18.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Columbus

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

7 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps93%
5 Gbps93%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Columbus

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).