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About Columbus
City in Georgia, United StatesColumbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it officially merged in 1970; the original merger excluded Bibb City, which joined in 2000 after dissolving its own city charter. Columbus is the second most populous city in Georgia (after Atlanta), and fields the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area. At the 2020 U.S. census, Columbus had a population of 206,922, with 328,883 in the Columbus metropolitan statistical area. The metro area joins the nearby Alabama cities of Auburn and Opelika to form t…
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Housing in Columbus
The typical Columbus home is worth about $176,000, up 2.9% in a year, 47% below the Georgia typical home.
Safety in Columbus
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A grade needs all of the FBI's latest years (2023–2025). Columbus's police department reported only 2024 and 2025, so we don't grade it yet. The figures below are still real.
Schools in Columbus
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The public schools Columbus’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 63% of Georgia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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