COLUMBUS BY THE NUMBERS

  • Columbus is the state capital and largest city in Ohio.
  • Columbus is the 15th largest city in the country with a population of 933,263 in 2024.  
  • Columbus has never declined in population.
  • Annually, visitors make more than 53 million trips to Greater Columbus for conventions, trade shows, sporting events and leisure visits, spending $8.2 billion and supporting more than 82,500 jobs. 
  • Columbus is welcoming and inclusive. Since 2013, Columbus has annually scored a 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. 
  • Columbus is truly a global city with more than 180K foreign-born residents and more than 120 different languages are spoken here. 
  • The Columbus Region is home to five Fortune 500 and 18 Fortune 1000 companies. 
  • Columbus is within a one-hour flight or one-day’s drive from nearly half the U.S. population. 
  • We’re the proud home of four professional sports teams—the Columbus Crew (MLS and three-time MLS Cup champions), Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL), Columbus Clippers (AAA) and Columbus Fury (MLV)—with stadiums just a few blocks of each other on Nationwide Blvd., nicknamed “Sports Street” in the Arena District. 
  • The Columbus Region has one of the highest populations of college students in the U.S.
  • Columbus is home some of the world’s foremost research institutions, including: 
    • Battelle, the world’s largest private, nonprofit research institution. Battelle serves the national security, health and life sciences, and energy and environmental industries.
    • Chemical Abstracts, which hosts the largest collection of information on chemicals and molecular science in the world. 
    • The Ohio State University, whose annual research expenditures exceed $967 million. 
    • The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of the largest pediatric research centers in the United States and are ranked among the top 10 for National Institutes of Health funding among free-standing children’s hospitals.