Neighborhoods - Powell, and the Southern Delaware County area, is quickly becoming a twenty-first century community. This area exhibits more than a half a dozen newer, executive lifestyle homesites featuring gorgeous new homes situated in wooded, rolling hills settings. From Liberty Lakes to Loch Lomand, you can expect peaceful, tranquil settings with an "old village" atmosphere that pushes the average home price to over $234,000. The range of most homes in the area will be between $300,000 and $500,000, though there are some areas with prices in the $200,000's.

Hidden Cove in Powell, Ohio Examples of Powell Housing and Price Options: 1. Entry Level Living up to $250,000:    2. Mid Level Living up to $500,000:     3. Executive Level Living from $500,000:

Education Powell is officially a city and is thus authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio to form a city school district. However, Powell continues to associate with the Olentangy Local School District. Powell is also home to a kindergarten to grade twelve private prepatory school known as Village Acadamy.

School district report card for Olentangy schools(school district for southern Delaware County) by the Ohio Department of Education. Powell

Contact Information:
Olentangy Local Schools
814 Shanahan Road, Suite 100
Lewis Center, Ohio 43035
(740) 657-4050
http://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/ 

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 6,247 people, 1,975 households, and 1,789 families residing in the city of Powell, Ohio.  The racial makeup of the city was 94% White, 1% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.92% Asian, 0.22% from other races, and 0.85% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino were less than 1% of the population.

There were 1,975 households out of which 56% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 86% were married couples residing in the same home, while 3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.4% were non-families. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and  about 1% had someone living alone who was of 65 years of age and older.

In the city of Powell, the population was spread out with 35% under the age of 18, 2.7% from ages 18 to 24, 36% from ages 25 to 44, 21% from ages 45 to 64. 3.8% were 65 years of age and older. However, the average age of a resident of Powell was 35 years old.

The median income for a household in the city was $115,904, and for a family was $117,801. Males had a median income of $79,146 versus $42,656 for females. The per capita income for the city was $46,257. About 0.4% of families and 0.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.7% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Economy

As an upscale bedroom community for Columbus, lying within its statistical metropolitan area, most residents of Powell work in Columbus or one of its suburbs. Powell is noted for a historic central business oriented district, which features a number of antique shops and similar enterprises. Powell is comprised of mostly upscale and luxury neighborhoods, including Wedgewood, Golf Village, River Bend, Chambers Glenn, The Retreat, The Chase, Ashmoore, Olentangy Ridge, Canterbury and Sherbourne. Homes in Powell range anywhere from $50,000 to $3,000,000. Apart from this distinction, Powell is home to typical midwestern restraunts and commodities, but due to the wishes of the residents, past and present, does not host any major industrial, financial, or technological businesses. The Columbus Zoo and its water park Zoombezi Bay, O'Shaughnessy Dam, and the Olentangy Indian Caverns offer residents and visitors alike entertainment and recreational options that are close to home. 

Although Powell maintains its own police department, it is served by the Liberty Township Fire Department, which has two stations less than one mile from the northern and western borders of the city.