Columbus, OH
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 18140 · 39.97, -82.84
3 findings fired for Columbus, OH this run, against a typical home value of $326,910 in September 2026 and covered employment of 1,104,476 in 2026 Q1.
- 92nd pct · 30th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 56th pct · 166th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 53rd pct · 180th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 59th pct · 154th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 38th pct · 232nd of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Columbus, OH, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 31,590 | $29,580 | 1.15 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 30,510 | $88,780 | 1.27 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 30,130 | $41,060 | 1.50 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 29,070 | $130,510 | 1.17 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 27,580 | $35,230 | 0.90 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 26,850 | $35,940 | 0.97 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 25,800 | $42,130 | 1.23 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 18,550 | $47,340 | 1.01 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 18,110 | $45,360 | 1.03 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 17,790 | $31,650 | 0.81 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 16,110 | $64,760 | 1.10 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 15,900 | $43,070 | 0.99 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 14,130 | $38,780 | 0.90 |
| 51-2090 | Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators | 13,640 | $46,400 | 1.37 |
| 53-7051 | Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators | 11,910 | $51,070 | 2.16 |
| 13-2011 | Accountants and Auditors | 11,410 | $91,910 | 1.11 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 10,970 | $55,070 | 1.01 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 10,780 | $41,890 | 1.24 |
| 13-1199 | Business Operations Specialists, All Other | 10,040 | $89,420 | 1.30 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 10,020 | $42,030 | 0.97 |
| 25-2021 | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 9,950 | $77,060 | 1.01 |
| 15-1252 | Software Developers | 9,880 | $123,630 | 0.82 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 9,570 | $48,610 | 0.79 |
| 43-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 9,480 | $70,890 | 0.93 |
| 33-9032 | Security Guards | 9,300 | $40,280 | 1.02 |
| 25-2031 | Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | 9,210 | $85,780 | 1.22 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 9,000 | $53,180 | 0.92 |
| 41-4012 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products | 8,900 | $81,680 | 1.01 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 8,600 | $36,910 | 0.86 |
| 41-3091 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 8,350 | $72,980 | 0.93 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 121,850 | $51,000 | 0.97 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 118,690 | $49,080 | 1.22 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 95,180 | $35,850 | 0.98 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 85,890 | $51,670 | 0.90 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 85,340 | $89,040 | 1.14 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 82,430 | $131,950 | 1.04 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 82,180 | $99,720 | 1.18 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 66,530 | $66,630 | 1.03 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 55,070 | $50,330 | 0.90 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 52,030 | $40,040 | 0.93 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 39,880 | $63,790 | 0.92 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 39,220 | $69,790 | 0.86 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 36,100 | $109,520 | 0.97 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 28,990 | $39,810 | 0.90 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 27,840 | $61,630 | 1.04 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 19,230 | $38,650 | 0.83 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 18,900 | $60,720 | 1.00 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 18,190 | $96,880 | 0.98 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 13,130 | $65,130 | 0.90 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 9,460 | $89,630 | 0.90 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 8,590 | $119,300 | 0.93 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 870 | $47,330 | 0.28 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Columbus, OH metro was worth $326,910 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,525 in September 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, metro files, joined by the RegionID recorded in the place manifest. Both are smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 1,104,476 covered jobs across the 10 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 10 of 10 member counties BLS publishes.
- 1,104,476 = 99,464 + 48,060 + 784,853 + 7,395 + 77,041 + 23,819 + 5,289 + 6,137 + 16,978 + 35,440
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Delaware County, OH | 39041 |
| Fairfield County, OH | 39045 |
| Franklin County, OH | 39049 |
| Hocking County, OH | 39073 |
| Licking County, OH | 39089 |
| Madison County, OH | 39097 |
| Morrow County, OH | 39117 |
| Perry County, OH | 39127 |
| Pickaway County, OH | 39129 |
| Union County, OH | 39159 |
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 72.20 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Columbus, OH: 3 findings, 3 noted
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Columbus, OH is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Columbus, OH is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Columbus, OH is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
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- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
The full Columbus, OH brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.