Worthington is one of the oldest planned communities in Ohio, founded in 1803 by a group of New England settlers who laid out the town square and street grid that Old Worthington's historic district — listed on the National Register of Historic Places — still follows today. Houses in that core span more than two centuries of construction, and the older ones have foundations, sill plates, and chimney chases with plenty of time-worn gaps for both rats and mice, especially once fall temperatures push rodents to look for warmth.
The Olentangy River runs along Worthington's western edge, and riverside properties there see a similar bump in outdoor rat activity to what we find near the same river further south in Upper Arlington and Columbus. Away from the historic core, the High Street and Wilson Bridge Road corridors carry newer commercial and multi-family development where exclusion work looks more like a typical suburban job — utility entries, loading dock areas, and roofline gaps rather than century-old foundation cracks.
We treat Worthington's older and newer sections as genuinely different jobs rather than one script, since a 200-year-old foundation and a 20-year-old commercial building fail in very different places. Call for a free inspection anywhere in Worthington.
The Olentangy River's periodic high water affects Worthington's western edge the same way it does further south in Upper Arlington and Columbus, adding ground moisture near the water on top of the freeze-thaw winter cycles that stress foundations throughout the metro, and older homes closest to the river tend to show it first.
Worthington's meticulously preserved town square and surrounding historic district draw a level of foot traffic and civic pride that few of the metro's other original town cores can match, and the mature street trees planted throughout that historic core — some standing since the neighborhood's earliest development — support the same kind of elevated squirrel activity we see in other well-treed, historic Columbus-area communities. That combination of very old housing stock and heavy tree cover means a Worthington inspection often has to account for both rodent and squirrel entry points on the same property. The Wilson Bridge Road corridor's newer hotels and office buildings round out the mix, giving Worthington a genuinely three-way split between historic residential, newer residential, and commercial rodent work within a relatively small overall footprint.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Worthington
Our Services in Worthington
- Rat Control in Worthington
- Mouse Control in Worthington
- Rodent Exclusion & Entry Point Sealing in Worthington
- Attic Cleanup & Decontamination in Worthington
- Dead Rodent Removal & Odor Control in Worthington
- Commercial Rodent Control in Worthington
- Rodent Prevention Plans in Worthington
- Squirrel Removal & Exclusion in Worthington
- Bat Exclusion in Worthington
- Vole & Mole Yard Control in Worthington