Midwest · Ohio · pop 913K
Columbus, OH
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in OH, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,251 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,071 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,844 left over.
Expect summer highs near 85°F, winter lows around 22°F, and about 178 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($250,000) is about 3.8× the median household income.
The Columbus fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,407/mo
Typical rent
$1,260/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.8×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,180/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,260/mo
- Median home value
- $250,000
- Median household income
- $66,000
- Population
- 913,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.5%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.7%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 520
- Property crime rate
- 3,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 85°F
- Avg. winter low
- 22°F
- Sunny days / year
- 178
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈8/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈48/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈8/yr
- Annual rain
- 41"
- Annual snow
- 22"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+34
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 41/100
- Disaster risk
- 36/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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