Columbus, Ohio

Columbus population, 2020 to 2024

Columbus added 26,797 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +12,694. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Columbus is 67.1 times that size.

Columbus covers 221.53 square miles of land and 5.86 of water, for 4,213 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Columbus is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Columbus spans

Columbus crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 933,263 residents as follows; Franklin County holds 97.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbus

43 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Columbus by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43002, 43004, 43016, 43017, 43026, 43054, 43068, 43081, 43085, 43109, 43110, 43119, 43137, 43201, 43202, 43203, 43204, 43205, 43206, 43207, 43209, 43210, 43211, 43212, 43213, 43214, 43215, 43217, 43218, 43219, 43220, 43221, 43222, 43223, 43224, 43227, 43228, 43229, 43230, 43231, 43232, 43235, 43240. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Columbus is

The Census internal point of Columbus is at 39.983900, -82.984900. Columbus, the capital, is 1.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chicago, IL (2,721,308 people), 276.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Dayton, OH, 65.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 244 m (801 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Columbus

At 39.98° N, Columbus gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Columbus daylight page.

Places near Columbus

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Grandview Heights, 2.9 miles away, with 9,184 people.