United States · Ohio

Born in Columbus

Columbus is home to 913,175 people in Ohio. It is the number 18 city in United States by population. Sourced: GeoNames

Among the largest cities in United States

Sourced: GeoNames Population. Columbus is highlighted.

People and money in Columbus

• Median age: 33.5 years Sourced: US Census ACS
• Median household income: $67,084 a year Sourced: US Census ACS
• Income per person: $37,923 a year Sourced: US Census ACS
• Average household income: poorest fifth / richest fifth: $14,256 / $211,204 Sourced: US Census ACS
• People below the poverty line: 17% Sourced: US Census ACS
• Adults with a degree: 39% Sourced: US Census ACS
• Born abroad: 15% Sourced: US Census ACS
• People per household: 2.28 Sourced: US Census ACS
• Median rent: $1,383 a month Sourced: US Census ACS
• People per square kilometre: 1,624 Sourced: US Census ACS

United States as a whole

• Life expectancy at birth: 76.9 years for boys, 81.8 for girls Sourced: UN WPP 2024
• Children who die before age 5: 6.2 in every 1,000 births Sourced: UN WPP 2024

These are national figures: the game does not have separate health figures for Columbus. More about United States

Live a life in Columbus

Choose Columbus and you are born there, to a family drawn from the real mix of the place. Then you live it year by year, with a few choices that bend the odds. About an hour, and every life replays exactly from its seed.

Be born in Columbus

United States · All countries · How these figures are sourced