In 2030, Franklin County may have 70,000

more economically vulnerable people.

1.52M
TOTAL POPULATION

1.3M

472K Number of people at 200%

of federal poverty or less.
402K

YEAR 2017 YEAR 2030

Home prices and rents have increased Net household growth in the City of Columbus
at a much faster pace than income. is coming from lower-income households.

Homes Rents Income 70% < $50K

+5.6% +2.9% +1.3%
Annual Increase, 2010 to 2017 Net growth, 2010 to 2017
 WHO IS IN POVERTY?
By educational attainment By age
Bachelor’s 4% Under age 5 24%
High School Graduate 17% 18-64 15%
Less than High School 31% 65 and Older 10%

By work status By race

Full-time, year round 3% White 11%
Part-time, or part year 22% Asian 20%
Did not work 27% African - American 27%

By age 5, a low-income child Every $1 invested in early

is already 1.5 years behind a learning saves $7 on public
middle-class child. interventions later.

POVERTY IS CONCENTRATING AND SUBURBANIZING

Since 1970, the population of Franklin County has increased 57%. However, the number of people in poverty
has increased 182%, from 85,600 to 201,100. The growth of suburban poverty in Columbus has been faster
than anywhere else in the state.

1970 1990 +35,880 since 1970

121,475 in poverty
85,600 in poverty

U.S. 12.6% Franklin 10.3% U.S. 13.5% Franklin 13%

 EARNED INCOME TO ESTABLISH POVERTY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY

$11,880 $16,020 $20,160 $24,300

1 PERSON 2 PERSON 3 PERSON 4 PERSON

LIFE EXPECTANCY

64 69 70 78 82 84
43222 43204 & 43223 43211 Franklin 43221 43054
Franklinton Hilltop Area Linden Area County Upper Arlington New Albany Area

In 1970, Franklin
2017 +79,256 since 1990 County’s poverty rate
was 2.3% below the
U.S. average. By 2017,
it was 3.6% higher.
201,099 in poverty

2.0% or less 15.1% to 25.0%

2.1% to 5.0% 25.1% to 35.0%

U.S. 12.3% Franklin 15.9% 5.1% to 15.0% 35.1% to 50.0%

50.1% or greater
 Low-Income Displacement and Concentration, 2000—2016

Only 4% of Columbus census tracts are

experiencing gentrification. But 43% are
experiencing low-income concentration.

Net Change in Number

of Low Income Persons
within Displacement or
Concentration Tracts

<-1,400

-1,400 to -1,050

-1,050 to -700

-700 to -350

-350 to -1

None

1 to 350

350 to 700

700 to 1,050

1,050 to 1,400

>1,400

Poverty concentration remains a dominant concern, however, there should be

a much greater emphasis on suburbs. Too often they are treated as stable and
constant. But data shows they are not.
• Housing markets and migration patterns are regional in nature
• Neighborhood change isn’t just about one specific neighborhood, but about
Insights offered in “American Neighborhood Change in
the 21st Century,” Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity.
population flows across the region
University of Minnesota Law School. April 2019. • Suburban poverty only receives a fraction of the media attention that urban
gentrification or displacement receives
• Suburbs are experiencing some of the most overlooked changes in America

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