Columbus, OH — PPP Loan Data

Columbus, Ohio received 31,844 Paycheck Protection Program loans totaling $2.53B. The average loan in the city was $79,431 — above the national program average of approximately $67,000.

86.0% of loans in Columbus — totaling $2.41B — received SBA forgiveness. Forgiveness required borrowers to demonstrate that funds were used for qualifying expenses and that they maintained employee headcount and compensation levels during the covered period.

Among the largest disclosed recipients in Columbus were CAMERON MITCHELL RESTAURANTS, LLC ($10,000,000), WHITE CASTLE SYSTEM INC ($10,000,000), and ANCHOR HOCKING, LLC ($10,000,000).

The most active industry sector in Columbus was General Freight Trucking with 2,864 loans worth $69.2M, followed by Personal Care Services (2,444 loans).

Applicants in Columbus reported retaining 281,370 jobs through the program. These figures are self-reported and were not independently verified by the SBA. The majority of loans in this city — those under $150,000 — have borrower names withheld under FOIA Exemption 6.

Columbus is part of Ohio, which received a total of thousands of PPP loans during the program period. City-level data is based on the borrower's self-reported city name; some variation in spelling may cause minor undercounting. See the methodology page for more detail on data limitations.