Hidden Cove 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's.

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

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

School boundry map for Olentangy schools

Demographics

As of the census^[2] of 2000, there were 6,247 people, 1,975 households, and 1,789 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,057.3 people per square mile (793.4/km²). There were 2,032 housing units at an average density of 669.2/sq mi (258.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 94.29% White, 1.55% 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 of any race were 1.09% of the population.

There were 1,975 households out of which 56.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 86.1% were married couples living together, 3.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.4% were non-families. 7.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.16 and the average family size was 3.34.

In the city the population was spread out with 35.9% under the age of 18, 2.7% from 18 to 24, 36.4% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 3.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 100.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $115,904, and the median income 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 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 from $50,000 to $3,000,000. Apart from this distinction, Powell is home to typical midwestern restaurants and supermarkets, but due to the wishes of the residents, past and present, does not host any major industrial, financial, or technological businesses. This is apparent through the "Wal-Mart dispute", which a group of citizens formed. It is currently The Community Oversight Foundation to fight against Wal-Mart on the grounds that Wal-Mart would be detrimental to the preservation of the historic nature of Powell and would harm the current property values. However, in adjoining Liberty Township, the Columbus Zoo and its soon to be open water park Zoombezi Bay, O'Shaughnessy Dam, and the Olentangy Indian Caverns, offer residents and visitors alike, entertainment and recreational options.

Powell is officially a city and is thus authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio to form a city school district. However, it instead continues to associate with the Olentangy Local School District. Powell is also home to a kindergarten to grade twelve private preparatory school Village Academy, and to a branch of the Delaware County District Library.

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.