Scariest neighborhoods of columbus (Cleveland, Franklin: apartment, houses, living)

[14thandYou]

West Broad Street, once you've left downtown, is pretty forlorn and depressing. That is a street--and a series of neighborhoods--that are just not in a very good place. There are a couple of neighborhoods, such as Westgate, that have held onto their value OK and are decent residential neighborhoods. But they're tremendously isolated. I don't know that I'd call the west side scary, but it's definitely dumpy.

[travelinggirl1000]

Where are these neighborhoods in relation to OSU? Thanks !

[VideoEngineerAJS]

Originally Posted by travelinggirl1000

Where are these neighborhoods in relation to OSU? Thanks !

The people that mentioned Dublin, Powell, Westerville, etc. are just being really stupid. Those are some of the safest places around.

Clintonville is just north of OSU on High St., but I'm not sure how it is right now (haven't been there in almost a year). I mean I used to drive through Clintonville all the time and never really had any issues, but I never lived there.

Most of the legit areas that have been mentioned aren't really THAT close to OSU. I mean most of the places you'll find in the paper or online that say "Great for students" probably won't be in those areas.

[west336]

Some OSU neighborhoods utterly suck and are terrible places to live. Anything East of Summit and South of 14th can start to get really sketchy. Once you pass I-71 to the East and go north a bit you are in some serious hell-holes. I went to OSU and lived near 12th and Indianola and I was attacked once, a few people I know were beaten bad enough to go to the ER, many people were mugged, there were a couple of campus homicides, and our apartment complex was shot up in a shooting at a party. Also, the "ghetto bird" was in full force several times a week at night. I can't imagine what it was being used for though, since that seems like an expensive way to monitor crime!

[niteangel]

livingston between 70 and high. second the near east of downtown on main (miller, champion, ohio etc.)

[dblockindabuildin]

Originally Posted by VideoEngineerAJS

The people that mentioned Dublin, Powell, Westerville, etc. are just being really stupid. Those are some of the safest places around.

Please. I mentioned those areas in relation to the attitudes of police there, not the crime that exists in those areas. In terms of crime yes, they are very safe areas. The police in those areas tend to be jerks. Big difference.

[west336]

No offense to anyone who knows Columbus PD, but I dispise their attitudes! Drinking underage seems to be a bigger deal than violent crime, and they frequent college bars and hit on college-age girls all the time. Needless to say I'm over-generalizing, but I'm just not a fan of how the city uses its police force to "combat" criminal activity.

[otters21]

Originally Posted by west336

Some OSU neighborhoods utterly suck and are terrible places to live. Anything East of Summit and South of 14th can start to get really sketchy. Once you pass I-71 to the East and go north a bit you are in some serious hell-holes. I went to OSU and lived near 12th and Indianola and I was attacked once, a few people I know were beaten bad enough to go to the ER, many people were mugged, there were a couple of campus homicides, and our apartment complex was shot up in a shooting at a party. Also, the "ghetto bird" was in full force several times a week at night. I can't imagine what it was being used for though, since that seems like an expensive way to monitor crime!

One of the areas you mentioned in your post- 12th,14th and Indianola is adjacent to Weinland Park which to say at the very least is pretty darn sketchy if not ghetto. The other areas east of I-71 you have also mentioned are Milo-Grogan and South Linden and they are IMHO are among the worst in the city. Those neighborhoods define scary in the true sense of the word.

[14thandYou]

Originally Posted by west336

Some OSU neighborhoods utterly suck and are terrible places to live. Anything East of Summit and South of 14th can start to get really sketchy. Once you pass I-71 to the East and go north a bit you are in some serious hell-holes.

An emphatic yes to both of those. The campus area in general looks pretty ragged, but is typically safe. But once you get east of Summit Street, it really takes a dive. I would never recommend that someone live there. North and west of campus are the best places to be.

There's also never a good reason to go trompsing around Milo-Grogan. So don't.

[db108108]

Weinland Park is getting better, but it has a LONG ways to go. We lived near the corner of Indianola and 5th and, while 2009 was relatively quiet, 2010 has been hell so far.